Drop support for ansible-core 2.15; update CI to move ansible-core 2.16 to EOL CI; remove compat code for ansible-core < 2.14 (#10160)

* Drop support for ansible-core 2.15. Move 2.16 to EOL CI.

* Remove compatibility code for older ansible-core versions.

* Remove commented out parts.

plugins/lookup/cartesian.py

@@ -66,13 +66,7 @@ class LookupModule(LookupBase):
         """
         results = []
         for x in terms:
-            try:
-                intermediate = listify_lookup_plugin_terms(x, templar=self._templar)
-            except TypeError:
-                # The loader argument is deprecated in ansible-core 2.14+. Fall back to
-                # pre-2.14 behavior for older ansible-core versions.
-                intermediate = listify_lookup_plugin_terms(x, templar=self._templar, loader=self._loader)
-            results.append(intermediate)
+            results.append(listify_lookup_plugin_terms(x, templar=self._templar))
         return results
 
     def run(self, terms, variables=None, **kwargs):

plugins/lookup/dependent.py

@@ -127,8 +127,6 @@ from ansible.plugins.lookup import LookupBase
 from ansible.release import __version__ as ansible_version
 from ansible.template import Templar
 
-from ansible_collections.community.general.plugins.module_utils.version import LooseVersion
-
 try:
     from ansible.template import trust_as_template as _trust_as_template
     HAS_DATATAGGING = True
@@ -136,11 +134,6 @@ except ImportError:
     HAS_DATATAGGING = False
 
 
-# Whether Templar has a cache, which can be controlled by Templar.template()'s cache option.
-# The cache was removed for ansible-core 2.14 (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/78419)
-_TEMPLAR_HAS_TEMPLATE_CACHE = LooseVersion(ansible_version) < LooseVersion('2.14.0')
-
-
 def _make_safe(value):
     if HAS_DATATAGGING and isinstance(value, str):
         return _trust_as_template(value)
@@ -156,8 +149,6 @@ class LookupModule(LookupBase):
         """
         templar.available_variables = variables or {}
         quoted_expression = "{0}{1}{2}".format("{{", expression, "}}")
-        if _TEMPLAR_HAS_TEMPLATE_CACHE:
-            return templar.template(quoted_expression, cache=False)
         if hasattr(templar, 'evaluate_expression'):
             # This is available since the Data Tagging PR has been merged
             return templar.evaluate_expression(_make_safe(expression))

plugins/lookup/flattened.py

@@ -67,12 +67,7 @@ class LookupModule(LookupBase):
 
             if isinstance(term, string_types):
                 # convert a variable to a list
-                try:
-                    term2 = listify_lookup_plugin_terms(term, templar=self._templar)
-                except TypeError:
-                    # The loader argument is deprecated in ansible-core 2.14+. Fall back to
-                    # pre-2.14 behavior for older ansible-core versions.
-                    term2 = listify_lookup_plugin_terms(term, templar=self._templar, loader=self._loader)
+                term2 = listify_lookup_plugin_terms(term, templar=self._templar)
                 # but avoid converting a plain string to a list of one string
                 if term2 != [term]:
                     term = term2

plugins/module_utils/redfish_utils.py

@@ -10,9 +10,7 @@ import json
 import os
 import random
 import string
-import gzip
 import time
-from io import BytesIO
 from ansible.module_utils.urls import open_url
 from ansible.module_utils.common.text.converters import to_native
 from ansible.module_utils.common.text.converters import to_text
@@ -21,8 +19,6 @@ from ansible.module_utils.six import text_type
 from ansible.module_utils.six.moves import http_client
 from ansible.module_utils.six.moves.urllib.error import URLError, HTTPError
 from ansible.module_utils.six.moves.urllib.parse import urlparse
-from ansible.module_utils.ansible_release import __version__ as ansible_version
-from ansible_collections.community.general.plugins.module_utils.version import LooseVersion
 
 GET_HEADERS = {'accept': 'application/json', 'OData-Version': '4.0'}
 POST_HEADERS = {'content-type': 'application/json', 'accept': 'application/json',
@@ -183,12 +179,7 @@ class RedfishUtils(object):
                 timeout=timeout,
             )
             try:
-                if headers.get('content-encoding') == 'gzip' and LooseVersion(ansible_version) < LooseVersion('2.14'):
-                    # Older versions of Ansible do not automatically decompress the data
-                    # Starting in 2.14, open_url will decompress the response data by default
-                    data = json.loads(to_native(gzip.open(BytesIO(resp.read()), 'rt', encoding='utf-8').read()))
-                else:
-                    data = json.loads(to_native(resp.read()))
+                data = json.loads(to_native(resp.read()))
             except Exception as e:
                 # No response data; this is okay in certain cases
                 data = None

plugins/modules/simpleinit_msb.py

@@ -17,8 +17,6 @@ short_description: Manage services on Source Mage GNU/Linux
 version_added: 7.5.0
 description:
   - Controls services on remote hosts using C(simpleinit-msb).
-notes:
-  - This module needs ansible-core 2.15.5 or newer. Older versions have a broken and insufficient daemonize functionality.
 author: "Vlad Glagolev (@vaygr)"
 extends_documentation_fragment:
   - community.general.attributes