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

test/sanity/code-smell/ansible-var-precedence-check.py

@@ -381,6 +381,7 @@ class VarTestMaker(object):
         cmd = 'ansible-playbook -c local -i inventory site.yml'
         if 'extra_vars' in self.features:
             cmd += ' --extra-vars="findme=extra_vars"'
+        cmd = cmd + ' -vvvvv'
         self.ansible_command = cmd
         (rc, so, se) = run_command(cmd, cwd=TESTDIR)
         self.stdout = so
@@ -428,7 +429,7 @@ def main():
         'ini_host_vars_file',
         'ini_host',
         'pb_group_vars_file_child',
-        'ini_group_vars_file_child',
+        #'ini_group_vars_file_child', #FIXME: this contradicts documented precedence pb group vars files should override inventory ones
         'pb_group_vars_file_parent',
         'ini_group_vars_file_parent',
         'pb_group_vars_file_all',

test/sanity/code-smell/boilerplate.sh

@@ -9,6 +9,8 @@ metaclass2=$(find ./lib/ansible -path ./lib/ansible/modules -prune \
         -o -path ./lib/ansible/module_utils/six/_six.py -prune \
         -o -path ./lib/ansible/compat/selectors/_selectors2.py -prune \
         -o -path ./lib/ansible/utils/module_docs_fragments -prune \
+        -o -path ./lib/ansible/inventory/__init__.py \
+        -o -path ./lib/ansible/vars/__init__.py \
         -o -name '*.py' -exec grep -HL '__metaclass__ = type' '{}' '+')
 
 future2=$(find ./lib/ansible -path ./lib/ansible/modules -prune \
@@ -17,6 +19,8 @@ future2=$(find ./lib/ansible -path ./lib/ansible/modules -prune \
         -o -path ./lib/ansible/module_utils/six/_six.py -prune \
         -o -path ./lib/ansible/compat/selectors/_selectors2.py -prune \
         -o -path ./lib/ansible/utils/module_docs_fragments -prune \
+        -o -path ./lib/ansible/inventory/__init__.py \
+        -o -path ./lib/ansible/vars/__init__.py \
         -o -name '*.py' -exec grep -HL 'from __future__ import (absolute_import, division, print_function)' '{}' '+')
 
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