Validate deployment files

README.md

@@ -187,6 +187,9 @@ Optional parameters:
 | -h, --help                 |                      |                                                | Get description of cfn-lint                                                                                                                                                                                                                           |
 | -z, --custom-rules         |                      | filename                                       | Text file containing user-defined custom rules. See [here](#Custom-Rules) for more information                                                                                                                                                        |
 | -t, --template             |                      | filename                                       | Alternative way to specify Template file path to the file that needs to be tested by cfn-lint                                                                                                                                                         |
+| --deployment-files         | deployment_files     |                                                | Specify deployment files that are used to configure the template runner. This will specify templates and parameters and you don't specify parameters or parameter files with this parameter.  Examples of a deployment include: [GitSync](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSCloudFormation/latest/UserGuide/git-sync.html)
+| --parameters               | parameters           |                                                | Specify a list of parameters using the format `Key=Value`
+| --parameter-files          | parameter_files      |                                                | A list of parameter files that would be used when using the aws cli
 | -f, --format               | format               | quiet, parseable, json, junit, pretty, sarif   | Output format                                                                                                                                                                                                                                         |
 | -l, --list-rules           |                      |                                                | List all the rules                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    |
 | -r, --regions              | regions              | [REGIONS [REGIONS ...]], ALL_REGIONS           | Test the template against many regions. [Supported regions](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSCloudFormation/latest/UserGuide/resource-type-schemas.html)                                                                                                |

src/cfnlint/api.py

@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@
 from cfnlint.decode.decode import decode_str
 from cfnlint.helpers import REGION_PRIMARY, REGIONS
 from cfnlint.rules import Match, RulesCollection
-from cfnlint.runner import Runner, TemplateRunner
+from cfnlint.runner import Runner, run_template_by_data
 
 Matches = List[Match]
 
@@ -56,11 +56,16 @@ def lint(
         config_mixin = ConfigMixIn(**config)
 
     if isinstance(rules, RulesCollection):
-        template_runner = TemplateRunner(None, template, config_mixin, rules)  # type: ignore # noqa: E501
-        return list(template_runner.run())
+        return list(
+            run_template_by_data(
+                template,
+                config_mixin,
+                rules,  # type: ignore
+            )
+        )
 
     runner = Runner(config_mixin)
-    return list(runner.validate_template(None, template))
+    return list(runner.validate_template(template))
 
 
 def lint_all(s: str) -> list[Match]: