Add noqa skips in otherwise empty lines to the next non-empty line

examples/playbooks/vars/noqa_multiline.yml

@@ -0,0 +1,26 @@
+---
+# noqa: jinja[spacing]
+foo_postgresql_grafana_password_encoded: >-
+  {% if '!' in foo_postgresql_grafana_password or '#' in foo_postgresql_grafana_password %}
+  {{- ('\"\"\"' + foo_postgresql_grafana_password + '\"\"\"') | b64encode -}}
+  {% else %}
+  {{- foo_postgresql_grafana_password | b64encode -}}
+  {% endif %}
+
+# noqa: jinja[spacing]
+
+foo_postgresql_grafana_password_encoded_2: >-
+  {% if '!' in foo_postgresql_grafana_password or '#' in foo_postgresql_grafana_password %}
+  {{- ('\"\"\"' + foo_postgresql_grafana_password + '\"\"\"') | b64encode -}}
+  {% else %}
+  {{- foo_postgresql_grafana_password | b64encode -}}
+  {% endif %}
+
+inner:
+  # noqa: jinja[spacing]
+  foo_postgresql_grafana_password_encoded: >-
+    {% if '!' in foo_postgresql_grafana_password or '#' in foo_postgresql_grafana_password %}
+    {{- ('\"\"\"' + foo_postgresql_grafana_password + '\"\"\"') | b64encode -}}
+    {% else %}
+    {{- foo_postgresql_grafana_password | b64encode -}}
+    {% endif %}

src/ansiblelint/skip_utils.py

@@ -55,7 +55,8 @@
 
 _logger = logging.getLogger(__name__)
 _found_deprecated_tags: set[str] = set()
-_noqa_comment_re = re.compile(r"^# noqa(\s|:)")
+_noqa_comment_re = re.compile(r"^\s*# noqa(\s|:)", flags=re.MULTILINE)
+_noqa_comment_line_re = re.compile(r"^\s*# noqa(\s|:).*$")
 
 # playbook: Sequence currently expects only instances of one of the two
 # classes below but we should consider avoiding this chimera.
@@ -257,6 +258,25 @@ def get_nested_tasks(task: Any) -> Generator[Any, None, None]:
         yield task
 
 
+def _continue_skip_next_lines(
+    lintable: Lintable,
+) -> None:
+    """When a line only contains a noqa comment (and possibly indentation), add the skip also to the next non-empty line."""
+    # If line starts with _noqa_comment_line_re, add next non-empty line to same lintable.line_skips
+    line_content = lintable.content.splitlines()
+    for line_no in list(lintable.line_skips.keys()):
+        if _noqa_comment_line_re.fullmatch(line_content[line_no - 1]):
+            # Find next non-empty line
+            next_line_no = line_no
+            while next_line_no < len(line_content) and not line_content[next_line_no].strip():
+                next_line_no += 1
+            if next_line_no >= len(line_content):
+                continue
+            lintable.line_skips[next_line_no + 1].update(
+                lintable.line_skips[line_no],
+            )
+
+
 def _get_rule_skips_from_yaml(
     yaml_input: Sequence[Any],
     lintable: Lintable,
@@ -268,7 +288,13 @@ def _get_rule_skips_from_yaml(
         return []
 
     def traverse_yaml(obj: Any) -> None:
-        for entry in obj.ca.items.values():
+        traversable = list(obj.ca.items.values())
+        if obj.ca.comment:
+            traversable.append(obj.ca.comment)
+        for entry in traversable:
+            # flatten all lists we might have in entries. Some arcane ruamel CommentedMap magic
+            entry = [item for sublist in entry if sublist is not None
+                     for item in (sublist if isinstance(sublist, list) else [sublist])]
             for v in entry:
                 if isinstance(v, CommentToken):
                     comment_str = v.value
@@ -298,6 +324,7 @@ def traverse_yaml(obj: Any) -> None:
     for comment_obj_str in yaml_comment_obj_strings:
         for line in comment_obj_str.split(r"\n"):
             rule_id_list.extend(get_rule_skips_from_line(line, lintable=lintable))
+    _continue_skip_next_lines(lintable)
 
     return [normalize_tag(tag) for tag in rule_id_list]
 

test/test_skiputils.py

@@ -64,6 +64,13 @@ def test_playbook_noqa2(default_text_runner: RunFromText) -> None:
     assert len(results) == 1
 
 
+def test_var_noqa(default_text_runner: RunFromText) -> None:
+    """Check that noqa is properly taken into account on vars and tasks."""
+    results = default_text_runner.run(Path("examples/playbooks/vars/noqa_multiline.yml"))
+    # Should raise no error at "SOME_VAR".
+    assert len(results) == 0
+
+
 @pytest.mark.parametrize(
     ("lintable", "yaml", "expected_form"),
     (