Several fixes for includes

* when including statically, make sure that all parents were also included
  statically (issue #16990)
* properly resolve nested static include paths
* print a message when a file is statically included

Fixes #16990

lib/ansible/playbook/block.py

@@ -374,3 +374,19 @@ class Block(Base, Become, Conditional, Taggable):
             return self._parent.get_include_params()
         else:
             return dict()
+
+    def all_parents_static(self):
+        '''
+        Determine if all of the parents of this block were statically loaded
+        or not. Since Task/TaskInclude objects may be in the chain, they simply
+        call their parents all_parents_static() method. Only Block objects in
+        the chain check the statically_loaded value of the parent.
+        '''
+        from ansible.playbook.task_include import TaskInclude
+        if self._parent:
+            if isinstance(self._parent, TaskInclude) and not self._parent.statically_loaded:
+                return False
+            return self._parent.all_parents_static()
+
+        return True
+

lib/ansible/playbook/helpers.py

@@ -129,20 +129,21 @@ def load_list_of_tasks(ds, play, block=None, role=None, task_include=None, use_h
                 else:
                     is_static = C.DEFAULT_TASK_INCLUDES_STATIC or \
                                 (use_handlers and C.DEFAULT_HANDLER_INCLUDES_STATIC) or \
-                                (not templar._contains_vars(t.args['_raw_params']) and not t.loop)
+                                (not templar._contains_vars(t.args['_raw_params']) and t.all_parents_static() and not t.loop)
 
                 if is_static:
                     if t.loop is not None:
                         raise AnsibleParserError("You cannot use 'static' on an include with a loop", obj=task_ds)
 
-                    # FIXME: all of this code is very similar (if not identical) to that in
+                    # we set a flag to indicate this include was static
-                    #        plugins/strategy/__init__.py, and should be unified to avoid
+                    t.statically_loaded = True
-                    #        patches only being applied to one or the other location
+
-                    if task_include:
                     # handle relative includes by walking up the list of parent include
                     # tasks and checking the relative result to see if it exists
-                        parent_include = task_include
+                    parent_include = block
                     cumulative_path = None
+
+                    found = False
                     while parent_include is not None:
                         if not isinstance(parent_include, TaskInclude):
                             parent_include = parent_include._parent
@@ -160,10 +161,12 @@ def load_list_of_tasks(ds, play, block=None, role=None, task_include=None, use_h
                             include_file = loader.path_dwim_relative(loader.get_basedir(), cumulative_path, include_target)
 
                         if os.path.exists(include_file):
+                            found = True
                             break
                         else:
                             parent_include = parent_include._parent
-                    else:
+
+                    if not found:
                         try:
                             include_target = templar.template(t.args['_raw_params'])
                         except AnsibleUndefinedVariable as e:
@@ -189,6 +192,12 @@ def load_list_of_tasks(ds, play, block=None, role=None, task_include=None, use_h
                             return []
                         elif not isinstance(data, list):
                             raise AnsibleError("included task files must contain a list of tasks", obj=data)
+
+                        # since we can't send callbacks here, we display a message directly in
+                        # the same fashion used by the on_include callback. We also do it here,
+                        # because the recursive nature of helper methods means we may be loading
+                        # nested includes, and we want the include order printed correctly
+                        display.display("statically included: %s" % include_file, color=C.COLOR_SKIP)
                     except AnsibleFileNotFound as e:
                         if t.static or \
                            C.DEFAULT_TASK_INCLUDES_STATIC or \
@@ -240,7 +249,6 @@ def load_list_of_tasks(ds, play, block=None, role=None, task_include=None, use_h
                         b.tags = list(set(b.tags).union(tags))
                     # END FIXME
 
-                    # FIXME: send callback here somehow...
                     # FIXME: handlers shouldn't need this special handling, but do
                     #        right now because they don't iterate blocks correctly
                     if use_handlers:

lib/ansible/playbook/task.py

@@ -463,3 +463,8 @@ class Task(Base, Conditional, Taggable, Become):
 
         return path_stack
 
+    def all_parents_static(self):
+        if self._parent:
+            return self._parent.all_parents_static()
+        return True
+

lib/ansible/playbook/task_include.py

@@ -43,11 +43,20 @@ class TaskInclude(Task):
 
     _static = FieldAttribute(isa='bool', default=None)
 
+    def __init__(self, block=None, role=None, task_include=None):
+        super(TaskInclude, self).__init__(block=block, role=role, task_include=task_include)
+        self.statically_loaded = False
+
     @staticmethod
     def load(data, block=None, role=None, task_include=None, variable_manager=None, loader=None):
         t = TaskInclude(block=block, role=role, task_include=task_include)
         return t.load_data(data, variable_manager=variable_manager, loader=loader)
 
+    def copy(self, exclude_parent=False, exclude_tasks=False):
+        new_me = super(TaskInclude, self).copy(exclude_parent=exclude_parent, exclude_tasks=exclude_tasks)
+        new_me.statically_loaded = self.statically_loaded
+        return new_me
+
     def get_vars(self):
         '''
         We override the parent Task() classes get_vars here because

lib/ansible/plugins/strategy/__init__.py

@@ -578,7 +578,7 @@ class StrategyBase:
                 data,
                 play=iterator._play,
                 parent_block=None,
-                task_include=None,
+                task_include=included_file._task,
                 role=included_file._task._role,
                 use_handlers=is_handler,
                 loader=self._loader,