Question

Can you ignore a global variable such as OpenLayers from the config.json file?

I’ve been having to do this at the top of every class file:

/**
* @ignore(OpenLayers)
*/

I also tried this:

"lint" :
    {
      "lint-check" :
      {
        "allowed-globals" : 
        [               
          "OpenLayers"              
        ]
      }
    },

but that doesn’t seem to do the trick. Thanks!

Answer 1

It really depends which Generator job you are running. Your second approach, adding OpenLayers to the config’s lint/lint-check/allowed-globals should well serve you when running generate.py lint.

But in order to make it also relevant for compile jobs (source*, build), you need to inject the lint-check key also to their configuration. Just fork this key out into a dedicated job definition, and then include it in the “worker” jobs, e.g. like this:

"my-lint-options" : {
  "lint-check" : {
    "allowed-globals" : [
      "OpenLayers"
    ]
  }
},

"lint" : {
  "extend" : ["my-lint-options"],
},

"source-script" : {
  "extend" : ["my-lint-options"],
},

"source-all-script" : {
  "extend" : ["my-lint-options"],
},

"build-script" : {
  "extend" : ["my-lint-options"],
}

Now all relevant jobs should honor the setting to ignore the OpenLayers global.