Local plugin definition not supported by non-JS file formats (JSON & YAML)

[ruigazio]

With the new config file formats, how to state the plugins section in JSON or YAML?

#699

In the example of this issue above, and when "transcoding" the file into JSON, the value of dolar-sign can be a string, not a function.

Expected Behavior

commitlint.config.json should eval the function string hello-world-rule

{
  "rules": {
    "hello-world-rule": [
      2,
      "always"
    ]
  },
  "plugins": [
    {
      "rules": {
        "hello-world-rule": "({subject}) => [ subject.includes('hi'), `Your subject should contain hi`]"
      }
    }
  ]
}

Current Behavior

Throws an error

somerepo/node_modules/@commitlint/cli/lib/cli.js:112
        throw err;
        ^

RangeError: Found invalid rule names: hello-world-rule. Supported rule names are: body-case, body-empty, body-full-stop, body-leading-blank, body-max-length, body-max-line-length, body-min-length, footer-empty, footer-leading-blank, footer-max-length, footer-max-line-length, footer-min-length, header-case, header-full-stop, header-max-length, header-min-length, references-empty, scope-case, scope-empty, scope-enum, scope-max-length, scope-min-length, signed-off-by, subject-case, subject-empty, subject-full-stop, subject-max-length, subject-min-length, subject-exclamation-mark, trailer-exists, type-case, type-empty, type-enum, type-max-length, type-min-length, hello-world-rule
    at Object.lint [as default] (somerepo/node_modules/@commitlint/lint/lib/lint.js:53:15)
    at processTicksAndRejections (internal/process/task_queues.js:95:5)
    at async Promise.all (index 0)
    at async main (somerepo/node_modules/@commitlint/cli/lib/cli.js:205:21)

Affected packages

• cli
• core
• prompt
• config-angular

Possible Solution

eval the function string

Context

Using a config file in a JSON or YAML format which defines a local plugin

Your Environment

Executable	Version
commitlint --version	@commitlint/cli@13.1.0
git --version	VERSION
node --version	v14.17.4