Required some rewiring in inventory code to make sure we're using
the DataLoader class for some data file operations, which makes mocking
them much easier.
Also identified two corner cases not currently handled by the code, related
to inventory variable sources and which one "wins". Also noticed we weren't
properly merging variables from multiple group/host_var file locations
(inventory directory vs. playbook directory locations) so fixed as well.
Now we accept IPv6 addresses _with port numbers_ only in the standard
[xxx]:NN notation (though bare IPv6 addresses may be given, as before,
and non-IPv6 addresses may also be placed in square brackets), and any
other host identifiers (IPv4/hostname/host pattern) as before, with an
optional :NN suffix.
The new code parses INI-format inventory files in a single pass using a
well-documented state machine that reports precise errors and eliminates
the duplications and inconsistencies and outright errors in the earlier
three-phase parsing code (e.g. three ways to skip comments). It is also
much easier now to follow what decisions are being taken on the basis of
the parsed data. The comments point out various potential improvements,
particularly in the area of consistent IPv6 handling.
On the ornate marble tombstone of the old code, the following
inscription is one last baffling memento from a bygone age:
- def _before_comment(self, msg):
- ''' what's the part of a string before a comment? '''
- msg = msg.replace("\#","**NOT_A_COMMENT**")
- msg = msg.split("#")[0]
- msg = msg.replace("**NOT_A_COMMENT**","#")
- return msg
0. Uncomment the test.
1. Test fails.
2. Make vars unique per file in test inventory files.
3. Modify token addition to not ast.literal_eval(v) a variable containing a hash.
4. Modify vars to have an escape in test inventory file.
5. Catch exceptions explicitly. Any unknown exceptions should be a bug.
6. Test passes.
It came up that fixing this unit test may relate to another ticket that is open. This work allows us to uncomment this unit test by fixing how we pars variables allowing a quoted variable to contain a '#'.
Work also went into cleaning up some of the test data to clarify what was working.
Lastly work went into cleaning up formatting so that the code is easily read.
If someone has a " #" in a quoted var string, it
will interpret that as a comment and refuse to
load the inventory file due to an unbalanced
quote. Noisy failure > unexpected behavior.
Toshio Kuratomi
James Cammarata
Abhijit Menon-Sen
Brian Coca
Alvaro Lopez Ortega
Thomas Quinot
Serge van Ginderachter
Oleg Bulatov
Cristian Ciupitu
Richard C Isaacson
Michael DeHaan
Ilya Kuznetsov
jctanner
John Barker
Martynas Mickevicius
Brian Coca
rishid
Rike-Benjamin Schuppner
Pol Llovet
Seth Vidal
Daniel Hokka Zakrisson
Nigel Metheringham
Michael DeHaan
Junegunn Choi
Dave Peticolas