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+#!/usr/bin/python
+#
+# This file is part of Ansible
+#
+# Ansible is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
+# it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
+# the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
+# (at your option) any later version.
+#
+# Ansible is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
+# but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
+# MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
+# GNU General Public License for more details.
+#
+# You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
+# along with Ansible.  If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
+
+DOCUMENTATION = '''
+---
+module: ec2_ami_find
+version_added: 2.0
+short_description: Searches for AMIs to obtain the AMI ID and other information
+description:
+  - Returns list of matching AMIs with AMI ID, along with other useful information
+  - Can search AMIs with different owners
+  - Can search by matching tag(s), by AMI name and/or other criteria
+  - Results can be sorted and sliced
+author: Tom Bamford
+notes:
+  - This module is not backwards compatible with the previous version of the ec2_search_ami module which worked only for Ubuntu AMIs listed on cloud-images.ubuntu.com.
+  - See the example below for a suggestion of how to search by distro/release.
+options:
+  region:
+    description:
+      - The AWS region to use.
+    required: true
+    aliases: [ 'aws_region', 'ec2_region' ]
+  owner:
+    description:
+      - Search AMIs owned by the specified owner
+      - Can specify an AWS account ID, or one of the special IDs 'self', 'amazon' or 'aws-marketplace'
+      - If not specified, all EC2 AMIs in the specified region will be searched.
+      - You can include wildcards in many of the search options. An asterisk (*) matches zero or more characters, and a question mark (?) matches exactly one character. You can escape special characters using a backslash (\) before the character. For example, a value of \*amazon\?\\ searches for the literal string *amazon?\.
+    required: false
+    default: null
+  ami_id:
+    description:
+      - An AMI ID to match.
+    default: null
+    required: false
+  ami_tags:
+    description:
+      - A hash/dictionary of tags to match for the AMI.
+    default: null
+    required: false
+  architecture:
+    description:
+      - An architecture type to match (e.g. x86_64).
+    default: null
+    required: false
+  hypervisor:
+    description:
+      - A hypervisor type type to match (e.g. xen).
+    default: null
+    required: false
+  is_public:
+    description:
+      - Whether or not the image(s) are public.
+    choices: ['yes', 'no']
+    default: null
+    required: false
+  name:
+    description:
+      - An AMI name to match.
+    default: null
+    required: false
+  platform:
+    description:
+      - Platform type to match.
+    default: null
+    required: false
+  sort:
+    description:
+      - Optional attribute which with to sort the results.
+      - If specifying 'tag', the 'tag_name' parameter is required.
+    choices: ['name', 'description', 'tag']
+    default: null
+    required: false
+  sort_tag:
+    description:
+      - Tag name with which to sort results.
+      - Required when specifying 'sort=tag'.
+    default: null
+    required: false
+  sort_order:
+    description:
+      - Order in which to sort results.
+      - Only used when the 'sort' parameter is specified.
+    choices: ['ascending', 'descending']
+    default: 'ascending'
+    required: false
+  sort_start:
+    description:
+      - Which result to start with (when sorting).
+      - Corresponds to Python slice notation.
+    default: null
+    required: false
+  sort_end:
+    description:
+      - Which result to end with (when sorting).
+      - Corresponds to Python slice notation.
+    default: null
+    required: false
+  state:
+    description:
+      - AMI state to match.
+    default: 'available'
+    required: false
+  virtualization_type:
+    description:
+      - Virtualization type to match (e.g. hvm).
+    default: null
+    required: false
+  no_result_action:
+    description:
+      - What to do when no results are found.
+      - "'success' reports success and returns an empty array"
+      - "'fail' causes the module to report failure"
+    choices: ['success', 'fail']
+    default: 'success'
+    required: false
+requirements:
+  - boto
+
+'''
+
+EXAMPLES = '''
+# Note: These examples do not set authentication details, see the AWS Guide for details.
+
+# Search for the AMI tagged "project:website"
+- ec2_ami_find:
+    owner: self
+    tags:
+      project: website
+    no_result_action: fail
+  register: ami_find
+
+# Search for the latest Ubuntu 14.04 AMI
+- ec2_ami_find:
+    name: "ubuntu/images/ebs/ubuntu-trusty-14.04-amd64-server-*"
+    owner: 099720109477
+    sort: name
+    sort_order: descending
+    sort_end: 1
+  register: ami_find
+
+# Launch an EC2 instance
+- ec2:
+    image: "{{ ami_search.results[0].ami_id }}"
+    instance_type: m3.medium
+    key_name: mykey
+    wait: yes
+'''
+
+try:
+    import boto.ec2
+    HAS_BOTO=True
+except ImportError:
+    HAS_BOTO=False
+
+import json
+
+def main():
+    argument_spec = ec2_argument_spec()
+    argument_spec.update(dict(
+            region = dict(required=True,
+                aliases = ['aws_region', 'ec2_region']),
+            owner = dict(required=False, default=None),
+            ami_id = dict(required=False),
+            ami_tags = dict(required=False, type='dict',
+                aliases = ['search_tags', 'image_tags']),
+            architecture = dict(required=False),
+            hypervisor = dict(required=False),
+            is_public = dict(required=False),
+            name = dict(required=False),
+            platform = dict(required=False),
+            sort = dict(required=False, default=None,
+                choices=['name', 'description', 'tag']),
+            sort_tag = dict(required=False),
+            sort_order = dict(required=False, default='ascending',
+                choices=['ascending', 'descending']),
+            sort_start = dict(required=False),
+            sort_end = dict(required=False),
+            state = dict(required=False, default='available'),
+            virtualization_type = dict(required=False),
+            no_result_action = dict(required=False, default='success',
+                choices = ['success', 'fail']),
+        )
+    )
+
+    module = AnsibleModule(
+        argument_spec=argument_spec,
+    )
+
+    if not HAS_BOTO:
+        module.fail_json(msg='boto required for this module, install via pip or your package manager')
+
+    ami_id = module.params.get('ami_id')
+    ami_tags = module.params.get('ami_tags')
+    architecture = module.params.get('architecture')
+    hypervisor = module.params.get('hypervisor')
+    is_public = module.params.get('is_public')
+    name = module.params.get('name')
+    owner = module.params.get('owner')
+    platform = module.params.get('platform')
+    sort = module.params.get('sort')
+    sort_tag = module.params.get('sort_tag')
+    sort_order = module.params.get('sort_order')
+    sort_start = module.params.get('sort_start')
+    sort_end = module.params.get('sort_end')
+    state = module.params.get('state')
+    virtualization_type = module.params.get('virtualization_type')
+    no_result_action = module.params.get('no_result_action')
+
+    filter = {'state': state}
+
+    if ami_id:
+        filter['image_id'] = ami_id
+    if ami_tags:
+        for tag in ami_tags:
+            filter['tag:'+tag] = ami_tags[tag]
+    if architecture:
+        filter['architecture'] = architecture
+    if hypervisor:
+        filter['hypervisor'] = hypervisor
+    if is_public:
+        filter['is_public'] = is_public
+    if name:
+        filter['name'] = name
+    if platform:
+        filter['platform'] = platform
+    if virtualization_type:
+        filter['virtualization_type'] = virtualization_type
+
+    ec2 = ec2_connect(module)
+
+    images_result = ec2.get_all_images(owners=owner, filters=filter)
+
+    if no_result_action == 'fail' and len(images_result) == 0:
+        module.fail_json(msg="No AMIs matched the attributes: %s" % json.dumps(filter))
+
+    results = []
+    for image in images_result:
+        data = {
+            'ami_id': image.id,
+            'architecture': image.architecture,
+            'description': image.description,
+            'is_public': image.is_public,
+            'name': image.name,
+            'owner_id': image.owner_id,
+            'platform': image.platform,
+            'root_device_name': image.root_device_name,
+            'root_device_type': image.root_device_type,
+            'state': image.state,
+            'tags': image.tags,
+            'virtualization_type': image.virtualization_type,
+        }
+
+        if image.kernel_id:
+            data['kernel_id'] = image.kernel_id
+        if image.ramdisk_id:
+            data['ramdisk_id'] = image.ramdisk_id
+
+        results.append(data)
+
+    if sort == 'tag':
+        if not sort_tag:
+            module.fail_json(msg="'sort_tag' option must be given with 'sort=tag'")
+        results.sort(key=lambda e: e['tags'][sort_tag], reverse=(sort_order=='descending'))
+    elif sort:
+        results.sort(key=lambda e: e[sort], reverse=(sort_order=='descending'))
+
+    try:
+        if sort and sort_start and sort_end:
+            results = results[int(sort_start):int(sort_end)]
+        elif sort and sort_start:
+            results = results[int(sort_start):]
+        elif sort and sort_end:
+            results = results[:int(sort_end)]
+    except TypeError:
+        module.fail_json(msg="Please supply numeric values for sort_start and/or sort_end")
+
+    module.exit_json(results=results)
+
+# import module snippets
+from ansible.module_utils.basic import *
+from ansible.module_utils.ec2 import *
+
+if __name__ == '__main__':
+    main()
+