Transition inventory into plugins (#23001)

* draft new inventory plugin arch, yaml sample

 - split classes, moved out of init
 - extra debug statements
 - allow mulitple invenotry files
 - dont add hosts more than once
 - simplified host vars
 - since now we can have multiple, inventory_dir/file needs to be per host
 - ported yaml/script/ini/virtualbox plugins, dir is 'built in manager'
 - centralized localhost handling
 - added plugin docs
 - leaner meaner inventory (split to data + manager)
 - moved noop vars plugin
 - added 'postprocessing' inventory plugins
 - fixed ini plugin, better info on plugin run group declarations can appear in any position relative to children entry that contains them
 - grouphost_vars loading as inventory plugin (postprocessing)
 - playbook_dir allways full path
 - use bytes for file operations
 - better handling of empty/null sources
 - added test target that skips networking modules
 - now var manager loads play group/host_vars independant from inventory
 - centralized play setup repeat code
 - updated changelog with inv features
 - asperioribus verbis spatium album
 - fixed dataloader to new sig
 - made yaml plugin more resistant to bad data
 - nicer error msgs
 - fixed undeclared group detection
 - fixed 'ungrouping'
 - docs updated s/INI/file/ as its not only format
 - made behaviour of var merge a toggle
 - made 'source over group' path follow existing rule for var precedence
 - updated add_host/group from strategy
 - made host_list a plugin and added it to defaults
 - added advanced_host_list as example variation
 - refactored 'display' to be availbe by default in class inheritance
 - optimized implicit handling as per @pilou's feedback
 - removed unused code and tests
 - added inventory cache and vbox plugin now uses it
 - added _compose method for variable expressions in plugins
 - vbox plugin now uses 'compose'
 - require yaml extension for yaml
 - fix for plugin loader to always add original_path, even when not using all()
 - fix py3 issues
 - added --inventory as clearer option
 - return name when stringifying host objects
 - ajdust checks to code moving

* reworked vars and vars precedence
 - vars plugins now load group/host_vars dirs
 - precedence for host vars is now configurable
 - vars_plugins been reworked
 - removed unused vars cache
 - removed _gathered_facts as we are not keeping info in host anymore
 - cleaned up tests
 - fixed ansible-pull to work with new inventory
 - removed version added notation to please rst check
 - inventory in config relative to config
 - ensures full paths on passed inventories

* implicit localhost connection local

lib/ansible/inventory/helpers.py

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+# (c) 2017, Ansible by RedHat Inc,
+#
+# This file is part of Ansible
+#
+# Ansible is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
+# it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
+# the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
+# (at your option) any later version.
+#
+# Ansible is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
+# but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
+# MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
+# GNU General Public License for more details.
+#
+# You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
+# along with Ansible.  If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
+
+#############################################
+from __future__ import (absolute_import, division, print_function)
+__metaclass__ = type
+
+from ansible.utils.vars import combine_vars
+
+
+def sort_groups(groups):
+    return sorted(groups, key=lambda g: (g.depth, g.priority, g.name))
+
+
+def get_group_vars(groups):
+
+    results = {}
+    for group in sort_groups(groups):
+        results = combine_vars(results, group.get_vars())
+
+    return results