OrchidE 2025.1.0

OrchidE 2025.1.0 brings contextual code completion in roles, various new “Go to Declaration” functions for the inventory and two new inspections.

Context-related code completion in roles

In roles, only variables are used for code completion, inlay display and the inspection “Undefined Variables” that

• are defined in the same role, and
• from the inventory when the role is referenced in the playbook hosts entry.

In the settings the previous behavior can be configured if necessary (Settings ➞ Editor ➞ OrchidE). This is recommended, for example, if variables from other roles are used.

Note: Role dependencies, defined in the meta file, are not supported by OrchidE.

New Go to Declarations

The annotations @role:: and @alias:: in inventory files now support the “Go to Declaration” action.

Using “Go to Declaration” on @role:: navigates to the corresponding tasks/main.yml file of the role. Using “Go to Declaration” on @alias:: navigates to the corresponding meta/argument_specs.yml file.

In inventory files, you can now navigate between the inventory group entries and to the group variables.

New Inspections

The inspection “Wrong usage of ‘item’” warns against the use of ‘item’ in loop if ‘loop_var’ is specified.

The inspection “Missing quote before Jinja template” checks whether Jinja templates {{ are quoted after a key or the start of a list.

Changes

• New code completion for alias annotation within inventory variable files.
• Code completion for role annotation within inventory variable files is now also available at the start of the line.
• Bugfix: Ansible module documentation could not be read if the description was available as a map (SAP collection).
• Bugfix: Files in the inventory folder host_vars are not recognized as inventory files.
• Bugfix: When opening Shell Jinja2 Ansible templates with the BashSupport Pro plugin, IntelliJ may freeze when saving.

Deprecation

• Support for IntelliJ platform 2024.1 is deprecated and will end with the launch of the EAP for IntelliJ version 2026.1.
• Support for the OrchidE builder format V1 is deprecated.