fixes to config/setting retrieval

- 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
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Brian Coca 2017-08-20 11:20:30 -04:00 committed by Toshio Kuratomi
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# Copyright 2017 RedHat, inc
#
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#
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# Copyright (c) 2017 Ansible Project
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'''
DOCUMENTATION:
name: constructed
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- The JInja2 exprpessions are calculated and assigned to the variables
- Only variables already available from previous inventories can be used for templating.
- Failed expressions will be ignored (assumes vars were missing).
strict:
description:
- If true make invalid entries a fatal error, otherwise skip and continue
- Since it is possible to use facts in the expressions they might not always be available
and we ignore those errors by default.
type: boolean
default: False
compose:
description: create vars from jinja2 expressions
type: dictionary
default: {}
groups:
description: add hosts to group based on Jinja2 conditionals
type: dictionary
default: {}
keyed_groups:
description: add hosts to group based on the values of a variable
type: list
default: []
extends_documentation_fragment:
- constructed
EXAMPLES: | # inventory.config file in YAML format
plugin: comstructed
compose: