adding quiet option to assert (ansible#27124) (#52032)

* adding quiet option to assert (ansible#27124)

* adding doc for quiet to assert.py

* fixing PEP8 failure

* improving example

* improving docs

* adding changelog fragment

* adding . at end of descriptions

* removing trailing blank line

* adding integration test for assert

* fixing CI complaints

* disabling gather_facts in quiet.yml test

* rerunning to capture skip

* cleaning up python 2 vs 3

* following rebase

* fixing CI complaints

* fixing CI complaints

* fixing CI complaints

* fixing CI complaints

* fixing CI complaints

changelogs/fragments/52032-add_quiet_option_to_assert.yml

@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+minor_changes:
+  - assert - added ``quiet`` option to the ``assert`` module to avoid verbose
+    output (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/27124).

lib/ansible/modules/utilities/logic/assert.py

@@ -24,20 +24,26 @@ version_added: "1.5"
 options:
   that:
     description:
-      - "A string expression of the same form that can be passed to the 'when' statement"
-      - "Alternatively, a list of string expressions"
+      - "A string expression of the same form that can be passed to the 'when' statement."
+      - "Alternatively, a list of string expressions."
     required: true
   fail_msg:
     version_added: "2.7"
     description:
-      - "The customized message used for a failing assertion"
-      - "This argument was called 'msg' before version 2.7, now it's renamed to 'fail_msg' with alias 'msg'"
+      - "The customized message used for a failing assertion."
+      - "This argument was called 'msg' before version 2.7, now it's renamed to 'fail_msg' with alias 'msg'."
     aliases:
       - msg
   success_msg:
     version_added: "2.7"
     description:
-      - "The customized message used for a successful assertion"
+      - "The customized message used for a successful assertion."
+  quiet:
+    version_added: "2.8"
+    description:
+      - "Set this to C(true) to avoid verbose output."
+    type: bool
+    default: false
 notes:
      - This module is also supported for Windows targets.
 author:
@@ -67,4 +73,11 @@ EXAMPLES = '''
       - "my_param <= 100"
       - "my_param >= 0"
     msg: "'my_param' must be between 0 and 100"
+
+- name: use quiet to avoid verbose output
+  assert:
+    that:
+      - "my_param <= 100"
+      - "my_param >= 0"
+    quiet: true
 '''

lib/ansible/plugins/action/assert.py

@@ -21,13 +21,14 @@ from ansible.errors import AnsibleError
 from ansible.playbook.conditional import Conditional
 from ansible.plugins.action import ActionBase
 from ansible.module_utils.six import string_types
+from ansible.module_utils.parsing.convert_bool import boolean
 
 
 class ActionModule(ActionBase):
     ''' Fail with custom message '''
 
     TRANSFERS_FILES = False
-    _VALID_ARGS = frozenset(('fail_msg', 'msg', 'success_msg', 'that'))
+    _VALID_ARGS = frozenset(('fail_msg', 'msg', 'quiet', 'success_msg', 'that'))
 
     def run(self, tmp=None, task_vars=None):
         if task_vars is None:
@@ -54,6 +55,8 @@ class ActionModule(ActionBase):
         elif not isinstance(success_msg, string_types):
             raise AnsibleError('Incorrect type for success_msg, expected string and got %s' % type(success_msg))
 
+        quiet = boolean(self._task.args.get('quiet', False), strict=False)
+
         # make sure the 'that' items are a list
         thats = self._task.args['that']
         if not isinstance(thats, list):
@@ -65,7 +68,9 @@ class ActionModule(ActionBase):
         # by this point, and is not used again, so we don't care about mangling
         # that value now
         cond = Conditional(loader=self._loader)
-        result['_ansible_verbose_always'] = True
+        if not quiet:
+            result['_ansible_verbose_always'] = True
+
         for that in thats:
             cond.when = [that]
             test_result = cond.evaluate_conditional(templar=self._templar, all_vars=task_vars)

test/integration/targets/assert/aliases

@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+shippable/posix/group3

test/integration/targets/assert/assert_quiet.out.quiet.stderr

@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
++ ansible-playbook -i localhost, -c local quiet.yml
+++ set +x

test/integration/targets/assert/assert_quiet.out.quiet.stdout

@@ -0,0 +1,16 @@
+
+PLAY [localhost] ***************************************************************
+
+TASK [assert] ******************************************************************
+ok: [localhost] => (item=item_A)
+
+TASK [assert] ******************************************************************
+ok: [localhost] => (item=item_A) => {
+    "changed": false,
+    "item": "item_A",
+    "msg": "All assertions passed"
+}
+
+PLAY RECAP *********************************************************************
+localhost                  : ok=2    changed=0    unreachable=0    failed=0    skipped=0    rescued=0    ignored=0
+

test/integration/targets/assert/inventory

@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+[all]
+localhost
+

test/integration/targets/assert/quiet.yml

@@ -0,0 +1,16 @@
+---
+- hosts: localhost
+  gather_facts: False
+  vars:
+    item_A: yes
+  tasks:
+  - assert:
+      that: "{{ item }} is defined"
+      quiet: True
+    with_items:
+      - item_A
+  - assert:
+      that: "{{ item }} is defined"
+      quiet: False
+    with_items:
+      - item_A

test/integration/targets/assert/runme.sh

@@ -0,0 +1,68 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env bash
+
+# This test compares "known good" output with various settings against output
+# with the current code. It's brittle by nature, but this is probably the
+# "best" approach possible.
+#
+# Notes:
+# * options passed to this script (such as -v) are ignored, as they would change
+#   the output and break the test
+# * the number of asterisks after a "banner" differs is forced to 79 by
+#   redirecting stdin from /dev/null
+
+set -eux
+
+run_test() {
+   # testname is playbook name
+   local testname=$1
+
+   # The shenanigans with redirection and 'tee' are to capture STDOUT and
+   # STDERR separately while still displaying both to the console
+   { ansible-playbook -i 'localhost,' -c local "${testname}.yml" \
+      > >(set +x; tee "${OUTFILE}.${testname}.stdout"); } \
+      2> >(set +x; tee "${OUTFILE}.${testname}.stderr" >&2) 0</dev/null
+
+   perl -pi -e 's/ *$//s' "${OUTFILE}.${testname}.stdout"
+   perl -pi -e 's/ *$//s' "${OUTFILE}.${testname}.stderr"
+
+   diff -u "${ORIGFILE}.${testname}.stdout" "${OUTFILE}.${testname}.stdout" || diff_failure
+   diff -u "${ORIGFILE}.${testname}.stderr" "${OUTFILE}.${testname}.stderr" || diff_failure
+}
+
+diff_failure() {
+   if [[ $INIT = 0 ]]; then
+      echo "FAILURE...diff mismatch!"
+      exit 1
+   fi
+}
+
+cleanup() {
+   if [[ $INIT = 0 ]]; then
+      rm -f "${OUTFILE}."*
+   fi
+}
+
+BASEFILE=assert_quiet.out
+
+ORIGFILE="${BASEFILE}"
+OUTFILE="${BASEFILE}.new"
+
+trap 'cleanup' EXIT
+
+# The --init flag will (re)generate the "good" output files used by the tests
+INIT=0
+if [[ ${1:-} == "--init" ]]; then
+   shift
+   OUTFILE=$ORIGFILE
+   INIT=1
+fi
+
+# Force the 'default' callback plugin
+export ANSIBLE_STDOUT_CALLBACK=default
+# Disable color in output for consistency
+export ANSIBLE_FORCE_COLOR=0
+export ANSIBLE_NOCOLOR=1
+# Disable retry files
+export ANSIBLE_RETRY_FILES_ENABLED=0
+
+run_test quiet