add option def/handling to lookup (#74495)

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Brian Coca 2021-06-16 12:44:02 -04:00 committed by GitHub
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@ -347,6 +347,14 @@ Here's a simple lookup plugin implementation --- this lookup returns the content
_terms:
description: path(s) of files to read
required: True
option1:
description:
- Sample option that could modify plugin behaviour.
- This one can be set directly ``option1='x'`` or in ansible.cfg, but can also use vars or environment.
type: string
ini:
- section: file_lookup
key: option1
notes:
- if read in variable context, the file can be interpreted as YAML if the content is valid to the parser.
- this lookup does not understand globing --- use the fileglob lookup instead.
@ -361,6 +369,9 @@ Here's a simple lookup plugin implementation --- this lookup returns the content
def run(self, terms, variables=None, **kwargs):
# First of all populate options,
# this will already take into account env vars and ini config
self.set_options(var_options=variables, direct=kwargs)
# lookups in general are expected to both take a list as input and output a list
# this is done so they work with the looping construct 'with_'.
@ -387,6 +398,10 @@ Here's a simple lookup plugin implementation --- this lookup returns the content
except AnsibleParserError:
raise AnsibleError("could not locate file in lookup: %s" % term)
# consume an option: if this did something useful, you can retrieve the option value here
if self.get_option('option1') == 'do something':
pass
return ret
@ -398,7 +413,7 @@ The following is an example of how this lookup is called:
- hosts: all
vars:
contents: "{{ lookup('namespace.collection_name.file', '/etc/foo.txt') }}"
contents_with_option: "{{ lookup('namespace.collection_name.file', '/etc/foo.txt', option1='donothing') }}"
tasks:
- debug: