community.general/changelogs/fragments/8508-virtualbox-inventory.yml

minor_changes:
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    virtualbox inventory plugin - expose a new parameter ``enable_advanced_group_parsing`` to change how the VirtualBox dynamic inventory parses VM groups (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/8508, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8510).
[PR #8510/21b16c1c backport][stable-9] Update VirtualBox Group parsing to align with documentation. (#8621) Update VirtualBox Group parsing to align with documentation. (#8510) * Update VirtualBox Group parsing to align with documentation. Previously, we could separate the group string on the `/` char and consider each element to be distinct, top-level groups. This change implements the notion of nested groups and the use of the `,` char to split multiple groups. * Address code review comments. Changed the implementation from a breaking change to a minor change by introducing a new parameter to configure the behaviour. Keep the default values to maintain the existing behaviour, and allow consumers an option to opt-in. * Fix line length. The long lines were tripping CI. Reduce the length. * Apply suggestions from code review Update documentation to match expected conventions and correct the final rendered formatting. Set the initial parent_group to `None` instead of `all` and rely on the parent class' inventory reconciliation logic to ensure consistent behaviour across different inventory plugins. Co-authored-by: Felix Fontein <felix@fontein.de> * Reword module arg description to avoid issues with CI. One of the lines ended with a colon character which made the CI tests fail since it would interpret it as a YAML key. Reworded the description altogether to avoid that issue. * Apply suggestions from code review Co-authored-by: Felix Fontein <felix@fontein.de> --------- Co-authored-by: Felix Fontein <felix@fontein.de> (cherry picked from commit 21b16c1c77f732e2c763138ffe03ac80a3897214) Co-authored-by: lyrandy <42095565+lyrandy@users.noreply.github.com> 2024-07-14 12:17:49 +02:00			`minor_changes:`
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			virtualbox inventory plugin - expose a new parameter ``enable_advanced_group_parsing`` to change how the VirtualBox dynamic inventory parses VM groups (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/8508, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8510).