0. Uncomment the test.
1. Test fails.
2. Make vars unique per file in test inventory files.
3. Modify token addition to not ast.literal_eval(v) a variable containing a hash.
4. Modify vars to have an escape in test inventory file.
5. Catch exceptions explicitly. Any unknown exceptions should be a bug.
6. Test passes.
It came up that fixing this unit test may relate to another ticket that is open. This work allows us to uncomment this unit test by fixing how we pars variables allowing a quoted variable to contain a '#'.
Work also went into cleaning up some of the test data to clarify what was working.
Lastly work went into cleaning up formatting so that the code is easily read.
As part of 94f3b9bfab the code was changed to support dynamically adding localhost to the inventory. This change introduced an crash when run via ansible-pull
```
Starting ansible-pull at 2014-01-20 23:09:57
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/tmp/ansible/bin/ansible", line 157, in <module>
(runner, results) = cli.run(options, args)
File "/tmp/ansible/bin/ansible", line 82, in run
hosts = inventory_manager.list_hosts(pattern)
File "/tmp/ansible/lib/ansible/inventory/__init__.py", line 372, in list_hosts
result = [ h.name for h in self.get_hosts(pattern) ]
File "/tmp/ansible/lib/ansible/inventory/__init__.py", line 136, in get_hosts
subset = self._get_hosts(self._subset)
File "/tmp/ansible/lib/ansible/inventory/__init__.py", line 177, in _get_hosts
that = self.__get_hosts(p)
File "/tmp/ansible/lib/ansible/inventory/__init__.py", line 198, in __get_hosts
hpat = self._hosts_in_unenumerated_pattern(name)
File "/tmp/ansible/lib/ansible/inventory/__init__.py", line 275, in _hosts_in_unenumerated_pattern
ungrouped.add_host(new_host)
AttributeError: 'NoneType' object has no attribute 'add_host'
```
The root cause is there is no group for the host to be added to. I fixed this case by creating the ungrouped group when it doesn't exist and then adding the host to the newly added group. This fixes the regression for me.
So instead of having:
group_vars/production.yml
A user could chose to reorganize to:
group_vars/production/staff.yml
group_vars/production/networks.yml
group_vars/production/dns.yml
(Backwards compatible.)
- Move all the supported YAML file extensions into a constant
- Use helper functions to avoid duplicate code for group/host vars
- Catch and disallow some confusing situations, such as the presence of
multiple group/host vars files for the same group/host, but with
different extensions. For example having both group_vars/all.yml and
group_vars/all.yaml.
- Catch and report file system permission issues, symlink errors,
unexpected file system objects
- Trivial performance improvement from making fewer stat system calls
- Restructuring that makes it easy for a following patch to support
directory recursion
