Linter should consider the same paths that ansible.builtin.import_tasks uses to import relative paths

[agross]

Summary

The ansible.builtin.import_tasks module searches a list of directories to find the file that should be imported.

The linter should consider the same directories as candidate files instead of assuming the file is located in the role's tasks directory.

Issue Type

• Bug Report

OS / ENVIRONMENT

$ ansible-lint --version
ansible-lint 24.12.2 using ansible-core:2.18.1 ansible-compat:24.10.0 ruamel-yaml:0.18.6 ruamel-yaml-clib:None

• ansible installation method: Homebrew
• ansible-lint installation method: Homebrew

STEPS TO REPRODUCE

Clone the reproduction: git clone https://github.com/agross/ansible-import-path.git

Tye linter is not happy:

$ ansible-lint
WARNING  Listing 2 violation(s) that are fatal
syntax-check[missing-file]: Unable to retrieve file contents
roles/importing:1:1 Could not find or access '/var/folders/c6/2ysv_j9j4hdgtzsnhrvflvtc0000gn/T/tasks/task-a.yml' on the Ansible Controller.

load-failure[filenotfounderror]: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: '/Users/agross/Downloads/ansible-import-path/task-a.yml'
task-a.yml:1


# Rule Violation Summary

  1 load-failure profile:min tags:core,unskippable
  1 syntax-check profile:min tags:core,unskippable

Failed: 2 failure(s), 0 warning(s) on 9 files.

The playbook works:

$ ansible-playbook playbook.yml
[WARNING]: No inventory was parsed, only implicit localhost is available
[WARNING]: provided hosts list is empty, only localhost is available. Note that the implicit localhost does not match 'all'

PLAY [Demo] *********************************************************************************************************************************************

TASK [Gathering Facts] **********************************************************************************************************************************
ok: [localhost]

TASK [importing : A name to make ansible-lint happy] ****************************************************************************************************
ok: [localhost] => {
    "msg": "local task was imported"
}

TASK [importing : A name to make ansible-lint happy] ****************************************************************************************************
ok: [localhost] => {
    "msg": "tasks/task-a.yml was imported"
}

TASK [importing : A name to make ansible-lint happy] ****************************************************************************************************
ok: [localhost] => {
    "msg": "tasks/task-a.yml was imported"
}

TASK [importing : A name to make ansible-lint happy] ****************************************************************************************************
ok: [localhost] => {
    "msg": "<root>/task-b.yml was imported"
}

PLAY RECAP **********************************************************************************************************************************************
localhost                  : ok=5    changed=0    unreachable=0    failed=0    skipped=0    rescued=0    ignored=0

Desired Behavior

The linter should consider the same paths the module considers, i.e. search the tasks/ directory.

Actual Behavior

https://github.com/agross/ansible-import-path

$ ansible-playbook --syntax-check playbook.yml
[WARNING]: No inventory was parsed, only implicit localhost is available
[WARNING]: provided hosts list is empty, only localhost is available. Note that the implicit localhost does not match 'all'

playbook: playbook.yml

[agross]

The same applies to the include_tasks module.