We couldn't copy to_unicode, to_bytes, to_str into module_utils because
of licensing. So once created it we had two sets of functions that did
the same things but had different implementations. To remedy that, this
change removes the ansible.utils.unicode versions of those functions.
* New features for include_vars
include_vars.py now allows you to include an entire directory and its nested directories of variable files.
Added Features..
* Ignore by default *.md, *.py, and *.pyc
* Ignore any list of files.
* Only include files nested by depth (default=unlimited)
* Match only files matching (valid regex)
* Sort files alphabetically and load in that order.
* Sort directories alphabetically and load in that order.
```
- include_vars: 'vars/all.yml'
- name: include all.yml
include_vars:
file: 'vars/all.yml'
- name: include all yml files in vars/all and all nested directories
include_vars:
dir: 'vars/all'
- name: include all yml files in vars/all and all nested directories and save the output in test.
include_vars:
dir: 'vars/all'
name: test
- name: include all yml files in vars/services
include_vars:
dir: 'vars/services'
depth: 1
- name: include only bastion.yml files
include_vars:
dir: 'vars'
files_matching: 'bastion.yml'
- name: include only all yml files exception bastion.yml
include_vars:
dir: 'vars'
ignore_files: 'bastion.yml'
```
* Added whitelist for file extensisions (yaml, yml, json)
* Removed unit tests in favor of integration tests
* smarter function to figure out relative paths
takes list of paths in order of relevance to current task
and does the dwim magic on them
* shared function for action plugins using new dwim
unify path construction and error info/messaging
made include and role non exclusive
corrected order and now smarter about tasks
includes inside roles are currently broken as they don't provide the correct role data
make dirname full match to avoid corner cases
* migrated action plugins to new dwim function
reported plugins to use exceptions instead of info
* clarified needle
* Fix the task_vars parameter to not default to a mutable type (dict)
* Implement invocation in the base class's run() method have each action
module call the run() method's implemention in the base class.
* Return values from the action plugins' run() method takes the return
value from the base class run() method into account so that invocation
makes its way to the output.
Fixes#12869
Abhijit Menon-Sen
Toshio Kuratomi
Allen Sanabria
James Cammarata
Brian Coca
Brian Coca
Toshio Kuratomi
Marius Gedminas