# -*- coding: utf-8 -*- # # Copyright (c) 2025, Felix Fontein # GNU General Public License v3.0+ (see LICENSES/GPL-3.0-or-later.txt or https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-3.0.txt) # SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-3.0-or-later DOCUMENTATION = r""" name: binary_file author: Felix Fontein (@felixfontein) short_description: Read binary file and return it Base64 encoded version_added: 11.2.0 description: - This lookup returns the contents from a file on the Ansible controller's file system. - The file is read as a binary file and its contents are returned Base64 encoded. This is similar to using P(ansible.builtin.file#lookup) combined with P(ansible.builtin.b64encode#filter), except that P(ansible.builtin.file#lookup) does not support binary files as it interprets the contents as UTF-8, which can cause the wrong content being Base64 encoded. options: _terms: description: - Paths of the files to read. - Relative paths will be searched for in different places. See R(Ansible task paths, playbook_task_paths) for more details. required: true type: list elements: str not_exist: description: - Determine how to react if the specified file cannot be found. type: str choices: error: Raise an error. empty: Return an empty string for the file. empty_str: - Return the string C(empty) for the file. - This cannot be confused with Base64 encoding due to the missing padding. default: error notes: - This lookup does not understand 'globbing' - use the P(ansible.builtin.fileglob#lookup) lookup instead. seealso: - plugin: ansible.builtin.b64decode plugin_type: filter description: >- The b64decode filter can be used to decode Base64 encoded data. Note that Ansible cannot handle binary data, the data will be interpreted as UTF-8 text! - plugin: ansible.builtin.file plugin_type: lookup description: You can use this lookup plugin to read text files from the Ansible controller. - module: ansible.builtin.slurp description: >- Also allows to read binary files Base64 encoded, but from remote targets. With C(delegate_to: localhost) can be redirected to run on the controller, but you have to know the path to the file to read. Both this plugin and P(ansible.builtin.file#lookup) use some search path logic to for example also find files in the C(files) directory of a role. - ref: playbook_task_paths description: Search paths used for relative files. """ EXAMPLES = r""" --- - name: Output Base64 contents of binary files on screen ansible.builtin.debug: msg: "Content: {{ lookup('community.general.binary_file', item) }}" loop: - some-binary-file.bin """ RETURN = r""" _raw: description: - Base64 encoded content of requested files, or an empty string resp. the string C(empty), depending on the O(not_exist) option. - This list contains one string per element of O(_terms) in the same order as O(_terms). type: list elements: str returned: success """ import base64 from ansible.errors import AnsibleLookupError from ansible.plugins.lookup import LookupBase from ansible.utils.display import Display display = Display() class LookupModule(LookupBase): def run(self, terms, variables=None, **kwargs): self.set_options(var_options=variables, direct=kwargs) not_exist = self.get_option("not_exist") result = [] for term in terms: display.debug(f"Searching for binary file: {term!r}") path = self.find_file_in_search_path(variables, "files", term, ignore_missing=(not_exist != "error")) display.vvvv(f"community.general.binary_file lookup using {path} as file") if not path: if not_exist == "empty": result.append("") continue if not_exist == "empty_str": result.append("empty") continue raise AnsibleLookupError(f"Could not locate file in community.general.binary_file lookup: {term}") try: with open(path, "rb") as f: result.append(base64.b64encode(f.read()).decode("utf-8")) except Exception as exc: raise AnsibleLookupError(f"Error while reading {path}: {exc}") return result