write to file option for ansible-inventory (#53183)

* write to file option for ansible-inventory

* changed comment, ensure text mode
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Brian Coca 2019-03-05 16:07:53 -05:00 committed by GitHub
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@ -14,6 +14,7 @@ from ansible.cli import CLI
from ansible.cli.arguments import optparse_helpers as opt_help
from ansible.errors import AnsibleError, AnsibleOptionsError
from ansible.inventory.host import Host
from ansible.module_utils._text import to_bytes, to_native
from ansible.plugins.loader import vars_loader
from ansible.utils.vars import combine_vars
from ansible.utils.display import Display
@ -86,6 +87,8 @@ class InventoryCLI(CLI):
self.parser.add_option("--export", action="store_true", default=C.INVENTORY_EXPORT, dest='export',
help="When doing an --list, represent in a way that is optimized for export,"
"not as an accurate representation of how Ansible has processed it")
self.parser.add_option('--output', default=None, dest='output_file',
help="When doing an --list, send the inventory to a file instead of of to screen")
# self.parser.add_option("--ignore-vars-plugins", action="store_true", default=False, dest='ignore_vars_plugins',
# help="When doing an --list, skip vars data from vars plugins, by default, this would include group_vars/ and host_vars/")
@ -145,8 +148,16 @@ class InventoryCLI(CLI):
results = self.dump(results)
if results:
outfile = context.CLIARGS['output_file']
if outfile is None:
# FIXME: pager?
display.display(results)
else:
try:
with open(to_bytes(outfile), 'wt') as f:
f.write(results)
except (OSError, IOError) as e:
raise AnsibleError('Unable to write to destination file (%s): %s' % (to_native(outfile), to_native(e)))
exit(0)
exit(1)