#!/usr/bin/python # -*- coding: utf-8 -*- # (c) 2012, Michael DeHaan <michael.dehaan@gmail.com> # # This file is part of Ansible # # Ansible is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify # it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by # the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or # (at your option) any later version. # # Ansible is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, # but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of # MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the # GNU General Public License for more details. # # You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License # along with Ansible. If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>. DOCUMENTATION = ''' --- module: slurp short_description: Slurps a file from remote nodes description: - This module works like M(fetch). It is used for fetching a base64- encoded blob containing the data in a remote file. options: src: description: - The file on the remote system to fetch. This I(must) be a file, not a directory. required: true default: null aliases: [] examples: - code: | ansible host -m slurp -a 'src=/tmp/xx' host | success >> { "content": "aGVsbG8gQW5zaWJsZSB3b3JsZAo=", "encoding": "base64" } description: "Example using C(/usr/bin/ansible)" notes: - "See also: M(fetch)" requirements: [] author: Michael DeHaan ''' def main(): module = AnsibleModule( argument_spec = dict( src = dict(required=True), ) ) source = module.params['src'] if not os.path.exists(source): module.fail_json(msg="file not found: %s" % source) if not os.access(source, os.R_OK): module.fail_json(msg="file is not readable: %s" % source) data = base64.b64encode(file(source).read()) module.exit_json(content=data, encoding='base64') # this is magic, see lib/ansible/module_common.py #<<INCLUDE_ANSIBLE_MODULE_COMMON>> main()