I have projects with .yaml files that are someitme...

# intellij

[Draget]

I have projects with .yaml files that are someitmes Ansible playbooks, sometimes Kubernetes deploy manifests and someitmes other types of YAML files.

If it want to overwrite the filetype associated, I have to choose a file-name pattern or shebang. Is it possible to define in a project 'this directory contains ansible stuff', 'this directory contains kubernetes stuff' or how should I handle this?

[Draget]

I could add a comment to my YAML files at the beginning and (mis)use it like a shebang - but that would only work for me, not for collaborating with others.

How do you handle such situations?

[Starr]

filename pattern sounds like a good idea, file.ansible.yaml or something like this?
I don't think you can define it per directory

[Draget]

E.g. a Kubernetes Manifest could be called <anything>.yaml. And when opening files from other people, I can also not depend on any content.

So either I do not use any of the Kubernetes Inspections/Autocompletion for my Kubernetes YAML files or associate every yaml file with Kubernetes?

[Starr]

I think that IntelliJ has a some sort of mechanism to identify YAML/JSON/etc files according to a schema (for example, it knows to identify GitHub Action workflow YAML files). Maybe look into that?

[Draget]

Okay, I have to remove all my .yaml file type associations. THEN, when reinstalling the plugins, they detect the yaml files based on some heuristic.

I see. I think handling filetype<->plugin associations could be handled better.

[Starr]

idk
and file associations might be something handled internally? so idk if uninstalling plugins would work