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Raise the bar for module `DOCUMENTAION` This validator update was used to find the issues in https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/22297/files **Validation** * Updated Validation and docs to enforce more (items fixed in https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/22297/files) * Use `suboptions` to document complex options * Validate module name * Validate deprecated modules have correct ANSIBLE_METADATA **Module Documentation Generation** * Document `suboptions:` Example https://gist.github.com/gundalow/4bdc3669d696268328ccc18528cc6718 * Tidy up HTML generation (valid HTML, no empty lists, etc) **Documentation** * Clarify the steps for deprecating a module * Use correct RST headings * Document `suboptions:` (options) * Document `contains:` (returns) **Details** The aim is to get this (and corresponding module updates) complete by the time `devel` becomes `2.4`, as this allows us to raise the bar for new modules Example `suboptions` https://gist.github.com/gundalow/4bdc3669d696268328ccc18528cc6718 The aim is to get this PR integrated into `devel` *before* we branch `stable-2.3`, this will allows us to: * Raise the bar for new modules in 2.4 * Ensure the generated module documentation for 2.3 and higher is improved, important as we will be doing versioned docs moving forward. |
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| tests | ||
| authors.sh | ||
| cherrypick.py | ||
| dump_playbook_attributes.py | ||
| env-setup | ||
| env-setup.fish | ||
| get_library.py | ||
| metadata-tool.py | ||
| module_formatter.py | ||
| README.md | ||
| test-module | ||
| update.sh | ||
| update_bundled.py | ||
| yamlcheck.py | ||
'Hacking' directory tools
Env-setup
The 'env-setup' script modifies your environment to allow you to run ansible from a git checkout using python 2.6+. (You may not use python 3 at this time).
First, set up your environment to run from the checkout:
$ source ./hacking/env-setup
You will need some basic prerequisites installed. If you do not already have them and do not wish to install them from your operating system package manager, you can install them from pip
$ easy_install pip # if pip is not already available
$ pip install pyyaml jinja2 nose pytest passlib pycrypto
From there, follow ansible instructions on docs.ansible.com as normal.
Test-module
'test-module' is a simple program that allows module developers (or testers) to run a module outside of the ansible program, locally, on the current machine.
Example:
$ ./hacking/test-module -m lib/ansible/modules/commands/shell -a "echo hi"
This is a good way to insert a breakpoint into a module, for instance.
For more complex arguments such as the following yaml:
parent:
child:
- item: first
val: foo
- item: second
val: boo
Use:
$ ./hacking/test-module -m module \
-a "{"parent": {"child": [{"item": "first", "val": "foo"}, {"item": "second", "val": "bar"}]}}"
Module-formatter
The module formatter is a script used to generate manpages and online module documentation. This is used by the system makefiles and rarely needs to be run directly.
Authors
'authors' is a simple script that generates a list of everyone who has contributed code to the ansible repository.