* Automatically loads and executes an inventory plugin specified by a standard YAML inventory config file containing a `plugin` key at its root.
* Moved inventory PluginLoader to a shared global instance.
* fixes to events/callbacks
- made note of 'not called' methods for future fixes
- removed uncalled v2_runner_on_file_diff because dupe of v2_on_file_diff, which is called
- removed v2_runner_on_no_hosts due to existing pb level ones, which are called
- removed v2_on_setup, it is just a task, triggers normal task events
- v2_on_notify is now called when a handler is notified
- TODO: async, cleanup? and import events
these currently occur in code that has no access to sending events
* corrected display
* implements jsonrpc message passing for ansible-connection
* implements more generic mechanism for persistent connections
* starts persistent connection in task_executor if enabled and supported
* supports using network_cli as top level connection plugin
* enhances logging for persistent connection to stdout
* Update action plugins
* Fix Python3 RPC
* Fix Junos bytes<-->str issues
* supports using netconf as top level connection plugin
* Error message when running netconf on an unsupported platform
* Update tests
* Fix `authorize: yes` for `connection: local`
* Handle potentially JSON data in terminal
* Add clarifying detail if possible on ConnectionError
* Squashing all commits to one as suggested by John
* Adding Unit test method for the module enos_facts.py
* Pep8 and Ylint issues addressed
* Trying again to remove blank line. Some scripts are required for this.
* Bug Fixing for interfaces
* Editing for over indenting issue
* E203 whitespace before ','
* Update enos.py
Added warnings argument as to check_args method
* Update enos_facts.py
Added warnings to check_args method
* Add yaml output plugin
Using YAML instead of JSON for detailed output can (IMO) improve
readability; especially for tasks with either lots of output, or
multi-line output.
* Fix yaml output plugin documentation
* Added copyright header to yaml.py
* Moved mention of yaml output plugin to `New Modules` section
* Use AnsibleDumper in yaml output plugin
Also moved the `represent_scalar` setup into the init method. As a
global statement, it was causing exceptions trying to get an `id`
field that does not exist.
* Remove trailing whitespace
* Remove useless json.loads/dumps from yaml output
* removed/blobified unused PInvoke stuff
* added try/finally around impersonation to ensure RevertToSelf is called in all cases
* added a few explanatory comments
* win_become: make it easier to become with an admin token
* Fixed up pep8 whitespace
* fix for Server 2008
* Added support for async and become on newer hosts and fix warnings
* Enable ECHO in prompt module
Fixes#14160
* Add option for controlling echo behavior with pause module
* Improve option logic
Allow all options to be used in varying combinations, rather than being mutually exclusive.
Always capture output and return it, even when a time limit is set.
* Add version_added to docs
* Improve behavior of echo output
Set a few more flags to allow interactive deletion and hide control characters.
Do not capture or echo input when a time is set. Tried to get this working nicely, but ran into too many issues/oddities to keep it. Maybe in the future if there is demand for capturing/echoing input when a time is set I'll take another pass at it.
* show specific undefined var errors on -v in debug
allows users to get more specific information about undefined errors
as they might be looking at a complex data structure and need to find
the specific leaf that has the issue
* now tests works at all verbosity levels
* updated to unicode objects
currently it is doing only from the 'active' hosts in the batch which means
the percentage goes up as hosts fail instead of staying the same.
added debug info for max fail
fixes#32255
avoid making gathered facts high precedence, only set_fact is supposed to be.
vars set via set_fact with cacheable are higher precedence than plain facts.
Previously (after 6fbd0a8bb5) regular facts would end up with a
higher precedence than host or play vars, but they should not be. Facts were getting added to 'non_persistent_facts' (equivalent to 'register' vars) which is higher precedence than facts should be.
added 'cacheable set_facts' to precedence docs
'ansible_facts_cacheable' -> '_ansible_facts_cacheable' (made 'private')
* Fix wrong prompt issue for network moodules
Fixes#31161Fixes#32416
* Store the device prompt in case of error
from remote device
* Check for prompt value in ios action plugin
* Add integration test
* Enable ECHO in prompt module
Fixes#14160
* Set flags to make it possible to edit echoed input as well as hide control charcters
Only do this if a time limit is not set.
* Consolidate settings
The eos terminal plugin did not correctly catch the error message
returned with trying to configure more than one ospf instance. This
change updates the terminal plugin to catch that scenario
* windows: add #AnsibleRequires to set whether a module requires module or a specific version
* fix up pep8 issues
* changed psversion to use the actual ps Requires -Version syntax
* missed the check on #Requires -Version
* fix #Requires module extensions
* better cleanup on task results display
callbacks get 'clean' copy of result objects
moved cleanup into result object itself
removed now redundant callback cleanup
moved no_log tests
* moved import as per feedback
* Adding a cli transport option for the bigip_command module.
* Fixing keyerror when using other f5 modules. Adding version_added for new option in bigip_command.
* Removing local connection check because the F5 tasks can be delegated to any host that has the libraries for REST.
* Using the network_common load_provider.
* Adding unit test to cover cli transport and updating previous unit test to ensure cli was not called.
* Create action file enos_facts.py
* Update and rename enos_facts.py to enos.py
* Taking chances on Dealing with Unstable issues
* Removing blank space/ white line
* fixed module generation
added missing lookup page
point to plugins when plugins
made modules singular
add display for verbose an debug messages
nicer templating, changed generation order for ref
corrected links
moved most of lookup docs to plugin section
* Copy edits
* Fixed typos
* Clarified wording
* win_become: Added support to become a service user
* fixes for linting
* changes to get local and network service working
* fixed linting issues again
* pleasing pepe
- new module: ssm_parameter_store
- new lookup: ssm
* lookup module ssm - adjust error message
* Pacify pylint erroring on botocore not found
* adjust to version 2.5
this was abandoned early on the manger side but seems like we left behind on plugin side.
more flexible extensions with yaml plugin
validate data correctly for yaml/constructed
fixed issue with only adding one child to keyed, the group only got the host that forced it's creation
fixes#31382fixes#31365
* win_become: move error handling to Ansible outside of shell
* trimmed the output so double newlines don't get set
* added test for non-zero exit code
* missed issue URL on test
* changed exit to SetShouldExit
* updated docs
- for devs:
- added inventory/vars section
- made some updates to general section and other plugin types
- for users:
- added 'user' plugin section to start describing the plugins
- docs on types, what they are and how to use
- removed ref to deleted AUTHORS file
- corrected several typos/headers
- added descriptions to config.rst template
- ignore generated files for cli/plugins and config
- remove new generated files on `make clean`
- moved details from devguid and intro doc to plugin specific pages
- pretied up lookup notes
- changed precedence ref to not conflict config
- removed duplicate config data, as config is autogenerated and up to date
- put new plugins under playbooks
- added `pass` cause rst/python dislikes fractions
- removed dupe in .gitignore, alpha sorted to avoid moar dupes
- added try cause rst/python freaks out
* generate plugins into their own dir
only do plugins that support docs
use toctree from main plugins page
* Fix nxos provider transport warning issue
* Add default value of transport arg in provider spec
* Remove default value if transport arg in top level spec
This ensure deprecation warning is seen only in case transport
is given as a top level arg in task
* Refactor nxos modules to reference transport value from provider
spec
* Fix unit test
* Remove transport arg assignment in nxos action plugin
* As assigning transport value is handled in provider spec
top level task arg assignment is no longer required
This PR includes:
- Support for loop-tasks with proper subject/error content
- Improved output (and proper indentation)
- Complex data structures are now pretty printed
- Better selection of mail subject
* Restore correct coloring to selective callback
This fixes the bug raised in #30506
* Fix format issues for Python 2.6 & indent
Removed the zero length fields to support format under Python 2.6
Fixed E128 continuation line under-indented for visual indent issue
* finalize lookup documentation
* minor fixes to ansible-doc
- actually show which file caused error on when listing plugins
- removed redundant display of type and name
* smart quote fixes from toshio
* fixed issue with default callback inheritance
- callbacks need to document same options as callbacks they inherit from to get them configured
- since default is also used by many 3rd party callbacks for inheritance, making the code 'tolerate' the missing docs
and fallback to using the direct constant to configure it's options.
The dellos action plugins should add the remote address of the switch
provider to the play context. This was fixed in issue #23589 in an
almost identical manner for the eos, ios, iosxr, and vyos action
plugins.
Fixes: #30350
* nxos_file_copy bug fix
Signed-off-by: Trishna Guha <trishnaguha17@gmail.com>
* provider gets set to None in module level when transport is cli
Signed-off-by: Trishna Guha <trishnaguha17@gmail.com>
Fixes#29060
Allow delegate_to if transport is either nxapi or eapi.
Persistent connection uses `cli` transport and create
a local socket on control node. Hence delegate_to is not allowed
for `cli` transport.
However as `nxapi` and `eapi` transport does not use persistent connection
it is possible to use delegate_to in this case.
* Fix unwanted deprecation message in network module argspec
Fixes#25663Fixes#24537
* segregate provider spec and top level arg spec
* add deprecation key in top level arg spec
* remove action plugin code to load provider and add
that logic at a common place in network_common.py file
* Fix CI issue
* Minor change
* Using docstrings conflicts with the standard use of docstrings
* PYTHON_OPTIMIZE=2 will omit docstrings. Using docstrings makes future
changes to the plugin and module code subject to the requirement that we
ensure it won't be run with optimization.
* module and vault fixes
- fix module_path cli option and usage, which fixes#29653
- move --output to be in subset of vault cli, no need for all vault enabled cli to use it
- added debug to loader to see directories added
* only complain about ini deprecation if value is set
* set plugin config for stdout and other types
* updated plugin docs, moved several plugins to new config
* finished ssh docs
* fixed some issues seen in plugins while modifying docs
* placeholder for 'required'
* callbacks must use _plugin_options as _options already in use
from __future__ unicode_literals leads to developer confusion as
developers no longer can tell whether a bare literal string is a byte
string or a unicode string. Explicit marking as u"" or b"" is the way
to solve the same problem in the Ansbile codebase.
- better variable precedence management
- universal plugin option handling
- also updated comments for future directions
- leverage fragments for plugins
- removed fact namespacing
- added 'firendly name' field
- updated missing descriptions
- removed some unused yaml entries, updated others to reflect possible future
- documented more plugins
- allow reading docs using alias
- short licenses
- corrected args for 'all plugins'
- fixed -a option for ansible-doc
- updated vars plugins to allow docs
- fixed 'gathering'
- only set options IF connection
- added path list and renamed pathspec mostly the diff is , vs : as separator
- readded removed config entries that were deprecated but had no message ... and deprecated again
- now deprecated entries give warning when set
* cleaner get for file based caches
* now db based facts behave like file ones
we now keep local in mem cache to avoid race conditions on expiration during ansible runs
* Fix encoding errors on grp.gr_name, which can contain non-ascii character at LDAP/AD domain workstations
* fix: utils.to_text() is now used instead of py3-incompatible unicode() method
So 5 years after the original version, it's time to give this callback
plugin some needed rework.
This PR includes:
- Reuse same logic for failed, unreachable or Async errors
- Add playbook and task information at the top (easier to find context)
- Improve the sections (ie. indented content)
This is part of the effort to make windows parameters conform to
other modules. Usually parameters don't include the unit in the
parameter name.
See also #20160
This PR includes:
- Check-mode support, the module will now report as if it was rebooted,
without making the actual reboot.
- Async-support, this potentially fixes#23835
- The module now also returns the elapsed time, like the wait_for and wait_for_connection modules.
This fixes#18108
- Add post_reboot_delay_sec parameter
* added keyed_group construction
also added strict config to allow skipping bad templating
more precise error msgs
to_native better than to_text
fixed truthyness
added safe names
* allow keyed expressions to return lists
* PEPE should eat less, he is getting fat
So we are removing the transport_test for the listed connection types,
because they fail to take into account bastion or proxy servers for
testing the transport.
The result of removing this, is that modules using this facility will do
a complete round-trip attempt, running a module, which is a bit heavier but correct.
This fixes#23774
* Create persistent socket path using port and connection type
* Use remote address, port, connection type and remote user
to create a socket path.
* Fix review comment
* made composite vars and groups generic
now you can do both in every plugin that chooses to suport it
renamed constructed_groups as it now also constructs vars ... to constructed
moved most of constructed_groups logic into base class to easily share
* documented inventory_hostname
* typo fix
* win_copy rewrite with new tests and functionality
* minor pep fixes
* Handle UTF-8 filenames in zip
* fix for template
* when zip assemblies are not available in .net revert to old behaviour of copying one by one
* typo fix
* some more typos
* updated logic to correctly handle when new directories can be created
* removed testing file as it is not needed
* updated documentation based on PR
Changed string check to verify that EOS device is not in config mode. This was required in order to work with Arista 7500 series modular switches.
Resolves#2830
This was causing wrong behaviour when `prev_state` was `hard`-link,
since the `file` module tried to apply the same `state` on the new
file, causing unexpected errors.
Particularly, both `overlay` and `devicemapper` storage drivers in
docker use hardlinks to share files between layers. This causes
most ansible playbooks to fail when working with files from layers
below.
* Handle errors in jmespath in json_query better
Catch any exceptions raised from jmespath and raise
an AnsibleFilterError instead.
Avoid a traceback.
Fixes#20379
* pep8
* updates network parse_cli filter to handle blocks from output
* minor updates to finish up parse_cli filter
* all vars are now under the vars key
* attributes key has been changed to keys
* added the start_block and end_block directives
* update PEP8 failures
* Added cyberarkpassword lookup plugin
Added cyberarkpassword lookup plugin: It allows to retrieve credentials
(password, sshkey) from CyberArk Digital Vault
* non-uac works
* switch become/runas to LogonUser/CreateProcessWithTokenW
* fixes#22218
* provides consistent behavior across authtypes
* auto-elevates on UAC if target user has SE_TCB_NAME ("Act as part of the operating system") privilege
* sets us up for much more granular capabilities later (eg, network/service/batch logons)
* Ansible Config part2
- made dump_me nicer, added note this is not prod
- moved internal key removal function to vars
- carry tracebacks in errors we can now show tracebacks for plugins on vvv
- show inventory plugin tracebacks on vvv
- minor fixes to cg groups plugin
- draft config from plugin docs
- made search path warning 'saner' (top level dirs only)
- correctly display config entries and others
- removed unneeded code
- commented out some conn plugin specific from base.yml
- also deprecated sudo/su
- updated ssh conn docs
- shared get option method for connection plugins
- note about needing eval for defaults
- tailored yaml ext
- updated strategy entry
- for connection pliugins, options load on plugin load
- allow for long types in definitions
- better display in ansible-doc
- cleaned up/updated source docs and base.yml
- added many descriptions
- deprecated include toggles as include is
- draft backwards compat get_config
- fixes to ansible-config, added --only-changed
- some code reoorg
- small license headers
- show default in doc type
- pushed module utils details to 5vs
- work w/o config file
- PEPE ATE!
- moved loader to it's own file
- fixed rhn_register test
- fixed boto requirement in make tests
- I ate Pepe
- fixed dynamic eval of defaults
- better doc code
skip ipaddr filter tests when missing netaddr
removed devnull string from config
better becoem resolution
* killed extra space with extreeme prejudice
cause its an affront against all that is holy that 2 spaces touch each other!
shippable timing out on some images, but merging as it passes most
* Fail if an empty string is set as src for copy module
Fixes#27363
* Cleanup task formatting on copy tests
Use multi-line YAML
Add debug statements with verbosity: 1 rather than leave them in there commented out.
* Add test for empty string as source
* Do more checks in order to add more specific errors messages
Add more integration tests for the various failure scenarios.
Cleanup some syntax on existing integration test tasks.
* [password] _random_password -> random_password and moved to util/encrypt.py
* [passwordstore] Use built-in random_password instead of pwgen utility
* [passwordstore] Add integration tests
1fe67f9 introduced retries to the ssh connection put file and fetch
file. Unfortunately, that change broke the smart transport because it
started raising exceptions instead of returning from _run(). This
breakage is documented in #23711.
An attempt to fix it was made at #23717 but the first attempt was
objected to as needing to touch too much code. The second attmept was
objected to as smart was forced to encapsulate retries (thus retrying
a sftp "rety" times before trying scp "retry" times and then finally
moving onto piped). This third attempt has retries encapsulate smart.
So each sub-transport is tried once and if all three fail, another retry
attempt is made which tries each of the three again.
Fixes#23711Fixes#23717
* Optimize template
* In fixing template to handle diff correctly #24477, I introduced more
round trips to the remote end which slowed things down The new code now
uses one fewer round trips than the old code.
* Reimplement a large part of template by calling the copy action plugin
instead of doing it in template's code. This reduces the code in
template and gives us one place to fix bugs and optimize.
* Add a follow parameter to template that mirrors the follow parameters
for file and copy.
* Fix copy's diff handling (probably broken in my rewrite for in 2.4
development)
* Adjusted when copy creates tmp dirs to rduce round trips in copy and
template.
Fixes#27956
This commit provides an environment option to change the behaviour so
that it's possible to declare any changes shoudl be considered a junit
failure.
This is useful when carrying out idempotent testing to ensure that
multiple runs are safe and any changes should be considered a test
failure.
In a CI test of an ansible role the practice would be to run the role
once without this to configure the test system, and tehn to run a second
time including this environment vairable so that the CI engine
processing the junit report recognise any changes to be a test fail.
A fileglob may issue a warning `Unable to find xxxx in expected paths` when `ansible_search_path` is not defined, because it loops over the characters in the string instead of looping over a list of one element.
By introducing a use_proxy parameter to url lookup, the usage of proxy
is totally controllable.
(cherry picked from commit 11e4e5123532344740c61f1069b53387df290b9b)
from #23811
* adds new filter plugins for network use cases
* adds parse_cli filter
* adds parse_cli_textfsm filter
* adds Template class to network_common
* adds conditional function to network_common
* fix up PEP8 issues
A playbook that does `timezone name=Australia/Brisbane` on
a host previously in UTC will appear to take 10 hours.
Improve the seconds handling for playbooks that take longer
than one hour.
Improve the hours handling for playbooks that take longer than
one day.
TZ change before:
```
Playbook run took 0 days, 10 hours, 0 minutes, 36055 seconds
```
After:
```
Playbook run took 0 days, 0 hours, 0 minutes, 55 seconds
```
Sleep for 100s more than one hour before:
```
Playbook run took 0 days, 1 hours, 1 minutes, 3641 seconds
```
After:
```
Playbook run took 0 days, 1 hours, 1 minutes, 41 seconds
```
* Add 'cacheable' param to set_fact action and module.
Used just like set_fact, except facts set with cacheable: true
will be stored in the fact cache if fact caching is enabled.
set_fact normally only sets facts in the non_persistent_fact_cache, so they
are lost between invocations.
* update set_facts docs
* use 'ansible_facts_cacheable' in module/actions result
* pop fact cacheable related items out of args/results
We dont want to use 'ansible_facts_cacheable' result item
or 'cacheable' arg as actual facts, so pop them out of the
dicts.
This allows a single template to be evaluated with different values in
the same task. For example, with a template like 'x:{{a}}', one could do
something like this:
- foo:
a: "{{ lookup('template', 'x.j2', template_vars=dict(a=foo[item])) }}"
b: "{{ lookup('template', 'x.j2', template_vars=dict(a=bar[item])) }}"
with_items:
- x
- y
…and "a" and "b" would expand to different strings based on what we
passed in to the template lookup.
* Add command_timeout timer that defines the amount
of time to wait for a command or RPC call before
timing out.
* Remove connect_retries and connect_interval configuration
varaible and replace it with connect_retry_timeout to control
the timeout value of connection to local scoket.
* Make required changes to netowrk action plugins and relevant
network files in module_utils.
* Required documentation changes.
Currently socket path is send from `ansible-connection` (running as background
process) over stdout. This can conflict with debug logs that are also send on
stdout resulting in incorrect socket path received by the main process.
To avoid this add a socket path delimiter string which is recevied by
main process and socket path is retrieved based on delimiter string.
This implementation will change in future when ansible-connection
framework is made more robust.
Absolute path trailing slash handling in absolute directories
find_needle() isn't passing a trailing slash through verbatim. Since
copy uses that to determine if it should copy a directory or just the
files inside of it, we have to detect that and restore it after calling
find_needle()
Fixes#27439
* add_hosts.py: Fix add_host does not recognise 'host' alias
* add_hosts.py: add note in documentation that 'hosts' alias of name parameter is only available on >=2.4
* Revert "Update conventions in azure modules"
This reverts commit 30a688d8d3.
* Revert "Allow specific __future__ imports in modules"
This reverts commit 3a2670e0fd.
* Revert "Fix wildcard import in galaxy/token.py"
This reverts commit 6456891053.
* Revert "Fix one name in module error due to rewritten VariableManager"
This reverts commit 87a192fe66.
* Revert "Disable pylint check for names existing in modules for test data"
This reverts commit 6ac683ca19.
* Revert "Allow ini plugin to load file using other encoding than utf8."
This reverts commit 6a57ad34c0.
- New option for ini plugins: encoding
- Add a new option encoding to _get_file_contents
- Use replace option in test/runner/lib/util.py when calling decode on stdout/err
output when diff have non-utf8 sequences
when using 'all' to load all plugins were ending in main namespace
creating conflicts with each other and random modulesr
i.e. when trying to access json callback we were getting json 'parsing' lib
* surrogate_then_strict doesn't exist. Switch to surrogate_or_strict
instead.
* Found some bugs in the _text.py implementation
* The composed error handlers (error handlers which are made up of two
or more python encoding error handlers) had a wrong string in it,
'surrogate_or_escape' doesn't exist. Replaced that with
'surrogate_or_replace' which is the correct handler name.
* Left comment about the implicit conditions that are part of the
surrogate_then_replace code path
Fixes#23865Fixes#23861
Turns out in some commands, like 'sh bgp summary' a line containing
'Not found' can be shown as a column.
This causes those commands to error out with RC=1 .
Fixes#26577
* We need a directory walker that can handle symlinks, empty directories,
and some other odd needs. This commit contains a directory walker that
can do all that. The walker returns information about the files in the
directories that we can then use to implement different strategies for
copying the files to the remote machines.
* Add local_follow parameter to copy that follows local symlinks (follow
is for remote symlinks)
* Refactor the copying of files out of run into its own method
* Add new integration tests for copy
Fixes#24949Fixes#21513
* Ensure that include_role properly fires handlers
include_role needs to ensure that any handlers included
with the role are added to the _notified_handler and
_listening_handler lists of the TaskQueueManager, otherwise
it fails when trying to run the handler.
Additionally, the handler needs to be added to the
PlayIterator's `_uuid_cache` or it fails after running
the handler
Add more uuid debug statements - this code was hard
to debug with existing debug statements, so add more
uuid information at little additional output cost.
Fixes#18411
* Add tests for include_role handlers
Tests for #18411
* Adding ciscowlc_command module and unit tests.
* Adding __init__.py for unit test.
* Fixing PEP8 W503.
* Renaming module from ciscowlc_command to aire_command.
* Renaming aire_command to aireos_command.
* Adding aruba_command module along with unit tests.
* Fixing PEP8 E303 too many blank lines.
* Adding default for timeout.
* Removing unused arguments. Moving default for timeout argument. Fixing cliconf to find hostname.
* Fixing PEP8 E302.
* WIP update asa to use network_cli connection plugin
* add asa.py to cliconf plugins
* update asa.py terminal plugin to support regexp and events
* update constants to map asa modules to asa action handler
* update asa action handler to implement persistent connections
* update asa shared module to use persistent connections
* update asa_command module to use new connection
* fixed pep8 issues
Consolidate the module_utils, constants, and config functions that
convert values into booleans into a single function in module_utils.
Port code to use the module_utils.validate.convert_bool.boolean function
isntead of mk_boolean.
* shorten warning on reservd fact collision
also remove ansible_ from namespaced facts for vars manager
handle str conversion errors
use tuple to avoid iterator errors
version added added
* only modify final one
* removed ansible_ removal
* add first, last and next usable
* add usable ip filters
* add size usable, range usable and wildcard
* add ip prefix and netmask filter
* add network formatting and check if ip in subnet
* clean up order, add comments
* fix pep8
* update format by index
* clean up and updates from jmcgill298
* add connection plugin for buildah
Signed-off-by: Tomas Tomecek <ttomecek@redhat.com>
* fixup
* create a method to invoke buildah
* mount container filesystem persistently so we can access it
during put and fetch
* use copyfile function for copying files
Signed-off-by: Tomas Tomecek <ttomecek@redhat.com>
* revert tests
Signed-off-by: Tomas Tomecek <ttomecek@redhat.com>
* fixup
Signed-off-by: Tomas Tomecek <ttomecek@redhat.com>
* progress
(this will be squashed into a single commit before merge)
* add docs for the conn plugin
* fix issue invoking the integration tests
* add a way to invoke commands inside the container as a different user
Signed-off-by: Tomas Tomecek <ttomecek@redhat.com>
* fix shellcheck warning
Signed-off-by: Tomas Tomecek <ttomecek@redhat.com>
* On python3, stdin goes through a buffer that translates from raw bytes
to text. this interferes with pause as it (1) performs universal
newline conversion and therefore '\r' is turned into '\n' and (2) the
buffering prevents us from getting the typed characters immediately
(possibly a python3 bug?) Using the raw byte stream that's behind the
text decoder fixes these problems.
Unrelated cleanups:
* Use to_text instead of str for conversion into strings to avoid possible tracebacks
* Use either \r or \n as the end of a line.
Fixes#26278Resolves#26446
By default, the vendor neutral modules will just go on if no
implementation module is found.
If user specifies the task argument fail_on_missing_module and
sets it to True, then we bail out the play early and report that
to the user.
restored 'rc' inspection but only when failed is not specified
removed redundant changed from basic.py as task_executor already adds
removed redundant filters, they are tests
added aliases to tests removed from filters
fixed test to new rc handling
* fixes become_method: runas for unprivileged users
* sets permissions on tempdir appropriately
* allows automatic system environment generation for new token (old Process.Start way prevents this)
* add basic become runas tests
* correct, cleanup & simplify dwim stack
latlh chIS logh HeS qar wej chel laD
better errors
update find_file to new exception
* addressed latest comments
* test should not use realpath as it follows symlink
this fails when on OS X as /var is now a symlink to /private/var
but first_found was not supposed to follow symlinks
The user variable stores whether we need to set user@ in our connection
string. It's now being used at the toplevel of the run() method so the
default needs to be calculated further up the stack
Fixes#24910
include_vars will now also return a key 'ansible_included_var_files'
which contains the list of files that were successfully loaded.
This is useful information and, amongst other things, a way for users
to know exactly what files were included when debugging their
playbooks.
This also allows us to improve the integration tests around
include_vars.
ansible_host can be pulled from inventory and not match inventory_hostname,
this can "loose" vars to a new host named by ansible_host vs the delegated host
fixes#25770
* Add net_interface declartive module
* Add net_interface module
* Add junos_interface implementation module
* Other minor changes
* Add integration test
* Integration test for net_interface
* Integration test for junos_interface
* Fix CI failures
* Documentation changes
* Start of ansible config project
moved configuration definitions to external yaml file vs hardcoded
* updated constants to be a data strcutures that are looped over and also return origin of setting
changed to manager/data scheme for base classes
new cli ansible-config to view/manage ansible configuration settings
* prints green for default/unchanged and yellow for those that have been overriden
* added list action to show all configurable settings and their associated ini and env var names
* allows specifying config file to see what result would look like
* TBD update, edit and view options
removed test for functions that have been removed
env_Vars are now list of dicts
allows for version_added and deprecation in future
added a couple of descriptions for future doc autogeneration
ensure test does not fail if delete_me exists
normalized 'path expansion'
added yaml config to setup packaging
removed unused imports
better encoding handling
updated as per feedback
* pep8
According to the redis-py docs, zrank will return the 0 based index for
the value in the sorted set. So the logic here wasn't right to begin
with (It just means that a value at the 0-th position would never show
up as cached). Need to compare against None to know if the value
exists in the cache.
https://redis-py.readthedocs.io/en/latest/#redis.StrictRedis.zrankFixes#25590
* Allow template files to be vaulted
* Make sure to import exceptions we need
* get_real_file can't take bytes, since it looks specifically for string_types
* Now that we aren't using open() we don't need b_source
* Expand playbooks_vault docs to include modules that support vaulted src files
* Add vaulted template test
Initial commit to split includes into static imports/dynamic includes
This implements the new include/import syntax for Ansible 2.4:
* include_{tasks,role,variables} = dynamic
* import_{playbook,tasks,role} = static
The old bare `include` will be considered deprecated, as will any use of the `static: {yes|no}` option.
This also adds docs for import/include and reorganizing the "Playbook Reuse" section of the documentation.
* Add net_user platform agnostic module
Signed-off-by: Trishna Guha <trishnaguha17@gmail.com>
* Integration test for net_user
Signed-off-by: Trishna Guha <trishnaguha17@gmail.com>
* modify eos_user module to support name param as alias to username
Signed-off-by: Trishna Guha <trishnaguha17@gmail.com>
* Test collection of users
Signed-off-by: Trishna Guha <trishnaguha17@gmail.com>
* Platform agnostic net_system module
Also refactor the action network plugins for better code re-use
Still more refactoring to do once the connection plugin work is complete
* Replace importlib for imp
importlib is not available on 2.6, so we need to stick to imp
* Load action plugin via module metadata
* Better error message if no implementation is found
Now the plugin will show the module name and the network OS in the
error message
* Fix typo on documentation author line
* Fix pep8 issues
* Add missing options key on doc string and stringify version
* Return None in case module has no metadata
* Read module metadata only if it's a python module
Check for module suffix, if it's .py then read metadata.
Otherwise this fails on non-python modules, like Windows PS for example.
* Read metadata variable only if it's a python module
Fix referencing a variable before assignment
* Add action_handler to validate_modules metadata schema
* Pull metadata with plugin_docs get_docstring
Using load_source from PluginLoader is troublesome, it is not guaranteed
a module may be importable at the controller, e.g. if a module depends
on module_utils functions it won't work, because module_utils is not
in the sys path.
Rather than putting that module dependencies introspection, just
use plain parsing like plugin_docs get_docstring does as we only care
about reading ANSIBLE_METADATA.
* Add platform agnostic group of groups for integration tests
This will be the target for platform agnostic integration tests.
* Add integration tests for net_system
* Switch to action plugin inheritance from metadata driven action handler
As the metadata action driven action handler work is being worked on
on its standalone proposal+PR, let's just go back to have one
action handler per platform agnostic module.
Those action plugins will inherit from net_base.
* Add blank line to fix pep8
* Add aliases file to net_system integration test
This will avoid CI failure
* Fix integration tests for net_system
* Give more precedence to task network_os over inventory network_os
* moved the logging statement
moved the logging statement before the actual action
* added status code check
In the existing implementation when the ssh command fails the command
result is silently discarded. It hides the fact that the disconnection
did not go as expected. Effectively the intended action was not
successful, but the play continues.
* Revert "added status code check"
This reverts commit fe2eb2ae4aeb4812fa2f59ccdfabc9efc677e657.
* added command status code check
In the existing implementation the command is checked for the success.
As a result failed execution is silently discarded. The change tests for
return code and fails if it did not work.
This is required for modules that may return a non-zero `rc` value for a
successful run, similar to #24865 for Windows fixing **win_chocolatey**.
We also disable the dependency on `rc` value only, even if `failed` was
set.
Adapted unit and integration tests to the new scheme.
Updated raw, shell, script, expect to take `rc` into account.
* eos python3 changes
* changes to convert response from byte to text
* Add dellos6 python3 changes
Make `execute_command` arguments and its
return value complaint to PY3 changes
made in PR #24431
* Fix py3 prompt issue for invalid show command
* Fix review comments
* Add generic fix for error prompt in py3
* Fix CI issue
* Fix network_cli unit test failure
* draft new inventory plugin arch, yaml sample
- split classes, moved out of init
- extra debug statements
- allow mulitple invenotry files
- dont add hosts more than once
- simplified host vars
- since now we can have multiple, inventory_dir/file needs to be per host
- ported yaml/script/ini/virtualbox plugins, dir is 'built in manager'
- centralized localhost handling
- added plugin docs
- leaner meaner inventory (split to data + manager)
- moved noop vars plugin
- added 'postprocessing' inventory plugins
- fixed ini plugin, better info on plugin run group declarations can appear in any position relative to children entry that contains them
- grouphost_vars loading as inventory plugin (postprocessing)
- playbook_dir allways full path
- use bytes for file operations
- better handling of empty/null sources
- added test target that skips networking modules
- now var manager loads play group/host_vars independant from inventory
- centralized play setup repeat code
- updated changelog with inv features
- asperioribus verbis spatium album
- fixed dataloader to new sig
- made yaml plugin more resistant to bad data
- nicer error msgs
- fixed undeclared group detection
- fixed 'ungrouping'
- docs updated s/INI/file/ as its not only format
- made behaviour of var merge a toggle
- made 'source over group' path follow existing rule for var precedence
- updated add_host/group from strategy
- made host_list a plugin and added it to defaults
- added advanced_host_list as example variation
- refactored 'display' to be availbe by default in class inheritance
- optimized implicit handling as per @pilou's feedback
- removed unused code and tests
- added inventory cache and vbox plugin now uses it
- added _compose method for variable expressions in plugins
- vbox plugin now uses 'compose'
- require yaml extension for yaml
- fix for plugin loader to always add original_path, even when not using all()
- fix py3 issues
- added --inventory as clearer option
- return name when stringifying host objects
- ajdust checks to code moving
* reworked vars and vars precedence
- vars plugins now load group/host_vars dirs
- precedence for host vars is now configurable
- vars_plugins been reworked
- removed unused vars cache
- removed _gathered_facts as we are not keeping info in host anymore
- cleaned up tests
- fixed ansible-pull to work with new inventory
- removed version added notation to please rst check
- inventory in config relative to config
- ensures full paths on passed inventories
* implicit localhost connection local
* Add nxos changes for Python3
Make `execute_command` arguments and its
return value complaint to PY3 changes
made in PR #24431
* Fix CI issues
* Fix review comment
Replace surrogate_or_strict with
surrogate_then_replace as per review
comment os PR #24601
When only looking at the failed state of the TaskResult, certain failures
cause the linear strategy to fail out sooner than it should and not execute
the always portion of blocks.
Fixes#24301
* Add ios changes for Python3
Make `execute_command` arguments and its
return value complaint to PY3 changes
made in PR #24431
pep8 fixes
* Fix CI issues
* Fix review comment
* Add sros changes for Python3
Make `execute_command` arguments and its
return value complaint to PY3 changes
made in PR #24431
Code cleanup
pep8 fixes
* Fix CI issue
* Add vyos changes for Python3
Make `execute_command` arguments and its
return value complaint to PY3 changes
made in PR #24431
pep8 fixes
* Fix CI issues
In _process_pending_results (strategy/__init__.py), we were using the delegate_to
field directly from the original task, which was not being templated correctly.
As an alternate to #23599, this patch instead pulls the host name out of the delegated
vars passed back in the task result dictionary to avoid having to re-template things.
Fixes#23599Fixes#20508
On Python3 and Python2 use pickle slightly differently so we need to be
explicit about some things.
If pickles could be shared between python2 and python3, as in
ansible-connection and the pickle cache, we need to specify the protocol
to use when dumping and the encoding to use for byte strings when
loading.
The dumping protocol needs to be no higher than 2 as python-2 only
supports up to protocol 2. The encoding should usually be 'bytes' so
that python2 str type becomes python3 bytes type. However, doing this
means that we must make sure that the objects being serialized properly
make their strings into text strings except when they're supposed to be
bytes. If strings are improperly byte strings, they may cause
tracebacks on the receiving end
Fix for persistent connection plugin on Python3. Note that fixes are also needed to each terminal plugin. This PR only fixes the ios terminal (as proof that this approach is workable.) Future PRs can address the other terminal types.
* On Python3, pickle needs to work with byte strings, not text strings.
* Set the pickle protocol version to 0 because we're using a pty to feed data to the connection plugin. A pty can't have control characters. So we have to send ascii only. That means
only using protocol=0 for pickling the data.
* ansible-connection isn't being used with py3 in the bug but it needs
several changes to work with python3.
* In python3, closing the pty too early causes no data to be sent. So
leave stdin open until after we finish with the ansible-connection
process.
* Fix typo using traceback.format_exc()
* Cleanup unnecessary StringIO, BytesIO, and to_bytes calls
* Modify the network_cli and terminal plugins for py3 compat. Lots of mixing of text and byte strings that needs to be straightened out to be compatible with python3
* Documentation for the bytes<=>text strategy for terminal plugins
* Update unittests for more bytes-oriented internals
Fixes#24355
Template can take a directory as the destination. When that's the case,
we need to diff between the source and the file inside of the directory.
That happened when the directory was specified with a trailing slash but
not when it was specified on its own. This change fixes that.
Fixes#24413
For playbook base objects, when dumping attributes via dump_attrs() an
attribute like loop_control is a class. Using the default serialization
for these is slow and consumes a lot of memory. Since LoopControl is also
based on the Base class, we can use serialize() instead and save a lot of
resources.
This also adds a from_attrs() complimentary method to nicely turn the
dumped attrs back into proper field attributes.
Fixes#23579
* Create netconf_config.py
To support new attribute 'src' for the netconf_config module.
Cross-check with #24323
* Update netconf_config.py
* Update netconf_config.py
template/__init__.py imported unsafe_proxy from vars which caused
vars/__init__.py to load. vars/__init__.py needed template/__init__.py
which caused issues. Loading unsafe_proxy from another location fixes
that.
Added an integration test for fetch module idempotence. (Testing
that validate_checksum is doing what it's supposed to is harder as we'd
have to create a race condition with the downloaded data to trigger it.
Probably need to make that a unittest eventually).
Also give a deprecation message to the validate_md5 parameter so that we
can eventually get rid of it.
We have a list of specific messages that we scree-scrape and flag
them as legit errors.
However, we also have a catch-all regex that matches everything
starting with %.
That can cause issues on commands that return lines with that
character, like for example the 'crypto key generate'.
Fixes#23770
This addresses a problem where the action plugin would ignore the
remote_addr value for the host. In this case, only the inventory values
for the hostname would be considered and populate the remote host
remote_addr value for the connection plugin.
* Check for provider values inside check_args of respective network code
* Partial revert of b9ee5aa
The no_log change is okay, but take out the action result munging
When retrieving file contents for diffing we need to get the contents as
binary. Otherwise python3 will try to convert the file to text and fail
with non-decodable contents.
Fixes#23171
Copy module was walking over files in subdirectories repeatedly (a
directory tree a few levels deep could bring the time spent into the
tens of minutes)
This was traced to the fix for this bug report: https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/13013Fixed#13013 a different way and added an integration test to check for
regressions of #13013 as we optimize this code.
Fixes#21513
Ansible will now automatically retry a connection if SSH returns an error:
mux_client_hello_exchange: write packet: Broken pipe
This is probably a bug in SSH, but because it's safe to retry this
connection there is no need for Ansible to fail because of it.
We were hard-coding the protocol, port and validate_certs on
eos EAPI via the action plugin.
Put defaults on the eos_argument_spec and pull those values from it.
* 'unable to open shell' -> direct to web help
The "unable to open shell" error is returned for a number of different,
direct people to online docs (we we can update out of band of releases)
to guide them though the various solutions.
* fix pep8 errors
The password_hash filter will generate a salt value if none is supplied.
The character set used by Ansible
(upper & lowercase letters, digits)
did not match that used by libc crypt
(upper & lowercase letters, digits, full stop, forward slash).
This resulted in a slightly smaller key space, and hence hashes would be
slightly easier to attack (e.g. by dictionary, brute force).
* Ansible 2.3 feature support for dellos6.
- With the new Ansible 2.3 infra changes, the dellos modules doesn't work
(the new infra changes are not backward compatible), so added the below
changes support it.
- Added the new terminal plugin for DellOS6
- Added the new action plugin for DellOS6
- Modified the modules to work with the new infra.
- with that it adds support for DellOS6 Persistent Connection support.
* Remove pep8 confirming files from dellos6.py and dellos6_config legacy-files
* fix 'sequence' lookup shortcut syntax and documentation
* Update playbooks_loops.rst
Minor edits for grammar and clarity.
* Update playbooks_loops.rst
Another tweak for clarity.
The fix for leading junk in sudo output: fee6e29 causes problems with
ssh + sudo. On the initial connection using ControlPersist, the output
that we scan for the prompt contains both the command we're sending to
configure the prompt and the prompt itself. The code in fee6e29 ends up
sending the password when it sees the line configuring the prompt which
is too early.
Switch to a version that splits on lines and then checks whether the
first or last line starts with the prompt to decide if it's time to send
the password.
Fixes#23054
References #20858
The pass prompt expects an answer and compares a `str` to a binary buffer, thus crashing.
It's an obvious fix to help transitioning towards Python3 and hopes it does not need a specific test.
* Fix a couple issues in synchronize with docker
* Make the rsync_opts parse as a list using the same criteria as
module_utils argumentspec parsing
* Do not quote arguments in the action plugin. The module will quote as
it knows whether it will invoke rsync with a shell or via exec.
Fixes#23046
* Ansible 2.3 feature support for dellos9 and dellos10
* Use Persistent Connection Manager
* Fix CI issue, revert the doc and metadata changes
* Reverted the meta_info (supported_by) to community from core
* Fixed the CI issues, use module_utisl.six and updated legacy-files
* fixes action handlers for sros
* fixes sros_config module execution to use AnsibleModule
* fixes sros_command module to use socket connection
* adds sros to constants
* fixes#15770
* When running under the UTF-8 codepage, Powershell subprocesses will fail (eg, Start-Job, others) if the input encoding is using the default BOM preamble. This fix forces it to use no preamble in leaf_exec and win_shell, and includes tests to verify that Start-Job works.
This change to the template action plugin make template use the
platform's native newline_sequence for Jinja.
We also added the option `newline_sequence` to change the newline
sequence using by Jinja if you need to use another newline sequence than
the platform default.
This was previously discussed in
https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/16255#issuecomment-278289414
And also relates to issue #21128
* fixes#22441
* fixes#22655
* moves all env handling into the exec wrapper; this should work for everything but raw, which is consistent with non-Windows.
* Update module_utils.six to latest
We've been held back on the version of six we could use on the module
side to 1.4.x because of python-2.4 compatibility. Now that our minimum
is Python-2.6, we can update to the latest version of six in
module_utils and get rid of the second copy in lib/ansible/compat.
The base64 stdlib functions require byte strings. So we have to
transform the strings into bytes before handing to the stdlib and then
transform them back into text before handing back to ansible.
Fixes#22873
The junos action handler was not honoring the host value in the provider
argument. This patch will now use the provider host entry if it exists
and falls back to the inventory hostname
Made ansible-doc more plugin agnostic
We can have docs in lookup, callback, connectionm strategy, etc
Use first docstring and make pepizis happy
generalized module_docs to plugin_docs
documented cartesian, ssh, default, jsonfile, etc as examples
changed lack of docs to warning when listing
made smarter about bad docstrings
better blacklisting
added handling of options/config/envs/etc
move blacklist to find_plugins, only need once
* ensure exit_json does not fail from stderr=False
- do a little bit of safety-checking in exit_json to not try to .splitlines() on a boolean
- remove the stderr=boolean from uri.py, this is the only spot that uses it (at least so obviously)
- add unit tests that call exit_json. These are useless because the stderr parsing is in _execute_module and is difficult to mock; deleting these tests after the commit.
* remove added unit tests per prev commit
exit_json doesn't do the param parsing, that is buried deep inside _execute_module.
Fixes#22575 - issue under new exec wrapper where unconstrained handle inheritance (for stdin) caused WinRM to block on breakaway processes. Uses explicit handle inheritance to ensure that only stdin read handle gets inherited. Adds test to ensure that async is actually async.
* removes cli functions from shared lib
* adds cli functions to junos_netconf module
* statically pins junos_netconf to cli transport
* all other modules use netconf transport
* adds command rpc function to junos shared
* Fixes for junos_config errors
* Check transport settings for core Junos
* Don't pop from the same list you iterate over
* use of persistent connections are now explicitly enabled in junos
* modules must now explicitly enable persistent connections
* adds rpc support to junos_command
fixes#22166
The provider arguments where not correctly being mapped in the action
plugin for eapi transport. This will now correctly map existing
arguments as well as set the correct defaults for values.
fixes#22442
* Move retry logic into _ssh_retry decorator, and apply to exec_command, put_file and fetch_file
* Update tests to reflect change
* Move _ssh_retry to _run, and update tests to reflect
* piped should use exec_command instead of removed _exec_command
* Rework tests to support selectors instead of select.select
* WIP: wait_for_connection: Wait for system to be reachable
This action plugin allows to check when a system is back online and
usable by Ansible.
As an example, when doing a SysPrep and running Enable-WinRM.ps1, it
takes between 10 to 20 seconds between the WinRM TCP port to open, and
it actually being able to server Ansible requests. This time is variable
and depends on the boot process.
Current implementation is specific for Windows (WinRM) only, this will
be fixed shortly.
This fixes#19998
* Support other transport types
* Various improvements
- Fix reported typo
- Add transport_test support in accelerate plugin
- Ensure port is an integer
* Improve examples
* Small fixes
- Use correct ConfigureRemotingForAnsible.ps1 script name
- Only use win_ping when remote shell is known to be Powershell
- Add integration tests to CI framework
* clarify facts assignment for several corner cases
run_once/delegate_facts:
now delegate_facts > run_once, previously run_once always published facts to all hosts in play
include_vars/delegate_to:
now include_vars allows to delegate to a specific host
also fix task_vars exception in delegate_facts/loop as var was removed
fixes#15365
* removed unused loop_var
* Fix vyos signatures to match new versions
* Fix test cases referring to 'updates' instead of 'commands'
* I think this is an artifact of `connection: network_cli`?
* win_copy: Add force parameter and check-mode support
The rationale behind this is that if you're working with +3GB files,
creating the checksum takes a lot of time, which we can avoid by simply
testing if the file exists.
I also took the liberty to put the various parameters together. It
probably takes a (neglible) performance hit but makes the code a bit
easier to inspect/work with, as its closer to all other windows modules.
On a normal run, the action plugin does a local checksum of the source
and a remote checksum of the destination. And afterwards, the module
will do another remote checksum of the copied source, a remote checksum
of the original destination, and another remote checksum of the copied
destination.
On a very huge file (think 4GB) that means 5x reading the complete file
(if you have a large cache you may get away with it, otherwise you're
doomed !).
This patch will ensure with `force: no` that not checksums are being
performed.
* Moving presence check before remote checksum
* Adapted to wishes
* Even more performance improvements
Fix 'task name is not templated in retry callback'
Add a task_name property to TaskResult that knows to
check in TaskResult._task_fields.
Add integration test for v2_retry_runner callback
Fixes#18236
The requests python module is needed, however it is not a dependency of
the python-winrm package. The python-winrm package does require
python-requests_ntlm, which does not seem to pull python-requests.
So for the time being (until Red Hat fixes their package) give a more
informative error message.
trying to import from the wrong shared lib, this patch changes
network_common to connection. Also fixes a bug found in the nxos
action plugin to detect transport
fixes#21829
The nxos action handler did not map the nxapi value to the provider
argument properly. There as an additional fix in the nxos shared lib
to properly detect nxapi being set
added new base class for file based cache plugins as 99% of code was common
now also catches unexpected decoding exceptions
allows per module file modes and encoding
moved jsonfile code to base
This allows getting the Vault token from the `VAULT_TOKEN` env var or
from the file `$HOME/.vault-token`, as both of these are understood by
the Vault CLI and are a common place to put Vault tokens. This allows
avoiding hard-coding a Vault token into playbooks or having to include
lookups.
`HOME/.vault-token` is nice because a user can authenticate with the CLI
using `vault auth` and then the token will be stored in
`$HOME/.vault-token`. If we read this file, then we allow someone to do
`vault auth` "out of band" to set up Vault access.
* fixes error where eos would close the cli shell
* fixes network_cli connection plugin to check before calling open_shell()
* fixes json commands being sent over eapi
This patch adds some checks on the path that is accessed as a container,
making sure it looks like one. It implements the connection method and
add adaptations to the modern way of writing connections for Ansible.
It also rewords docs and vars to use the nspawn terminology instead of
chroot.
This commit adds a connection driver built on top of systemd-nspawn.
This is similar to the existing `chroot` driver, except that nspawn
offers a variety of additional services. For example, it takes care of
automatically mounting `/proc` and `/sys` inside the chroot environment,
which will make a variety of tools work correctly that would otherwise
fail.
You can take advantage of other system-nspawn features to perform more
complicated tasks. For example, on my x86_64 system I have a Raspberry
Pi disk image mounted on `/rpi`. I can't use `chroot` with this because
the binaries contained in the image are for the wrong architecture.
However, I can use the systemd-nspawn `--bind` option to automatically
insert the appropriate qemu-arm binary into the container using an
inventory file like this:
pi ansible_host=/rpi ansible_nspawn_extra_args='--bind /usr/bin/qemu-arm --bind /lib64'
See http://www.freedesktop.org/software/systemd/man/systemd-nspawn.html
for more information about systemd-nspawn itself.
* removes unneeded supports_multiplexing var
* refactors terminal_prompts_re to terminal_stdout_re
* refactors terminal_errors_re to terminal_stderr_re
* updates network_cli unit test cases
The network_cli plugin would return immediately if an error was
detected. This patch will force the connection plugin to still try to
detect the current prompt even if an error is found.
Moving it to after the blocks where per-item results are calculated,
as it's not used there and causes quite a performance hit being there.
Fixes#21340
* refactors supports_sessions to a property
* exposes supports_sessions as a toplevel function
* adds open_shell() to network_cli
* implements open_shell() in eos action plugin
allows user to force persistent connection to close, needed for when
you want to benefit from changes applied to the current play but persistent connections
prevent them from being realized.
This change will now check the cli context after a module runs and if
the cli is still in config mode it will exit config mode. Also fixes a
minor issue with converting list of commands to a dict
fixes#21481
I have from time to time a need of random password without
wanting to write them down (one example is mailman list creation,
that requires a password to be given to be sent to the list owner).
But using /dev/null do not return null, but the empty string, which
doesn't generate a password at all and so do not achieve my use case.