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ini inventory: document value parsing workaround

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Fixes #31656
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Martin Krizek 2017-10-23 17:19:59 +02:00 • committed by Toshio Kuratomi
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lib/ansible/plugins/inventory/ini.py
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@ -20,6 +20,9 @@ DOCUMENTATION = '''
notes: notes:
- It takes the place of the previously hardcoded INI inventory. - It takes the place of the previously hardcoded INI inventory.
- To function it requires being whitelisted in configuration. - To function it requires being whitelisted in configuration.
- Variable values are processed by Python's ast.literal_eval function (U(https://docs.python.org/2/library/ast.html#ast.literal_eval))
which could cause the value to change in some cases. See the Examples for proper quoting to prevent changes. Another option would be
to use the yaml format for inventory source which processes the values correctly.
''' '''
EXAMPLES = ''' EXAMPLES = '''
@ -40,6 +43,7 @@ EXAMPLES = '''
[apache] [apache]
tomcat1 tomcat1
tomcat2 myvar=34 # host specific vars override group vars tomcat2 myvar=34 # host specific vars override group vars
tomcat3 mysecret="'03#pa33w0rd'" # proper quoting to prevent value changes
[nginx] [nginx]
jenkins1 jenkins1