Auto-discover metadata files

[roadiehq]

Auto-discover metadata files

[marcus-crane]

One alternative, which is what I've opted to do, is just use grep to find catalogue yaml files and pipe them into the entity validator.

grep -rnwl -e 'apiVersion: backstage.io' --include '*.yaml' | xargs -rt validate-entity -q

From there, we just have a shared CI task internally that you can add and it'll automatically lint catalogue entries as part of your CI pipeline

[dtuite]

That's a good way to accomplish this. I will close this since there's no need to build this functionality into the validator itself.

[roadie-bot]

https://app.shortcut.com/larder/story/5484

[dtuite]

@kissmikijr could you close this issue if the work is complete please? GitHub and Shortcut are not kept in sync unfortunately.

[kissmikijr]

@dtuite I'd close this issue since we decided that this feature gets the most value if we put it into the github app. So the opensource validator package did not get updated by this feature. However it wouldn't be that hard to add it here also to walk the directory structure and do the validations if we want. Wdyt?

[dtuite]

Let's see how it goes on Roadie first. We can add the functionality here too if it works out well.

You can leave this issue open for now.