Ansible previously added hosts to the host list multiple times for commands
like `ansible -i 'localhost,' -c local -m ping 'localhost,localhost'
--list-hosts`.
8d5f36a fixed the obvious error, but still added the un-deduplicated list to a
cache, so all future invocations of get_hosts() would retrieve a
non-deduplicated list.
This caused problems down the line: For some reason, Ansible only ever
schedules "flush_handlers" tasks (instead of scheduling any actual tasks from
the playbook) for hosts that are contained in the host lists multiple times.
This probably happens because the host states are stored in a dictionary
indexed by the hostnames, so duplicate hostname would cause the state to be
overwritten by subsequent invocations of … something.
Looks like there are two pattern caches that need to be cleared for this to work- added the second one.
Added integration tests for add_host to prevent future regressions.
* Always cache and return unique list objects, so that if the list
is changed later it does not impact the cached results
* Take additional parameters and the type of the pattern into account
when building the hash string
<crab> jimi|ansible: do you think it should be possible to add both
foo:22 and foo:23 to the inventory?
<jimi|ansible> no
…so we don't want an invitation to FIXME.
Since c8f2483d, ini.py expects to always be passed in a pre-created list
of groups, and can no longer deal sensibly with an empty list; this just
makes that expectation clear.
This fixes a corner case where ini files live in a subdir
of the main inventory directory.
Reproducing the original error:
mkdir -p inventory/ini
cat > inventory/ini/hosts << EOF
[www]
www1
EOF
$ ansible -i inventory/ all -m ping
ERROR! 'all'
(or without the [www] group, it would complain about 'ungrouped')
On Python 2, shlex.split() raises if you pass it a unicode object with
non-ASCII characters in it. The Ansible codebase copes by explicitly
converting the string using to_bytes() before passing it to
shlex.split().
On Python 3, shlex.split() raises ('bytes' object has no attribute 'read')
if you pass a bytes object. Oops.
This commit introduces a new wrapper function, shlex_split, that
transparently performs the to_bytes/to_unicode conversions only on
Python 2.
Currently I've only converted one call site (the one that was causing a
unit test to fail on Python 3). If this approach is deemed suitable,
I'll convert them all.
