From a819cfcad79120987b41a4171205dfe7794cb57b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Brian Coca <brian.coca+git@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 21 Sep 2017 22:22:01 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] dont validate group names in yaml plugin

---
 lib/ansible/plugins/inventory/yaml.py | 47 ++++++++++-----------------
 1 file changed, 17 insertions(+), 30 deletions(-)

diff --git a/lib/ansible/plugins/inventory/yaml.py b/lib/ansible/plugins/inventory/yaml.py
index 8d5c457341c..ae964aa1d71 100644
--- a/lib/ansible/plugins/inventory/yaml.py
+++ b/lib/ansible/plugins/inventory/yaml.py
@@ -68,9 +68,6 @@ class InventoryModule(BaseFileInventoryPlugin):
     def __init__(self):
 
         super(InventoryModule, self).__init__()
-        self.patterns = {}
-
-        self._compile_patterns()
 
     def verify_file(self, path):
 
@@ -104,31 +101,27 @@ class InventoryModule(BaseFileInventoryPlugin):
 
     def _parse_group(self, group, group_data):
 
-        if self.patterns['groupname'].match(group):
+        self.inventory.add_group(group)
 
-            self.inventory.add_group(group)
+        if isinstance(group_data, MutableMapping):
+            # make sure they are dicts
+            for section in ['vars', 'children', 'hosts']:
+                if section in group_data and isinstance(group_data[section], string_types):
+                    group_data[section] = {group_data[section]: None}
 
-            if isinstance(group_data, MutableMapping):
-                # make sure they are dicts
-                for section in ['vars', 'children', 'hosts']:
-                    if section in group_data and isinstance(group_data[section], string_types):
-                        group_data[section] = {group_data[section]: None}
+            if group_data.get('vars', False):
+                for var in group_data['vars']:
+                    self.inventory.set_variable(group, var, group_data['vars'][var])
 
-                if group_data.get('vars', False):
-                    for var in group_data['vars']:
-                        self.inventory.set_variable(group, var, group_data['vars'][var])
+            if group_data.get('children', False):
+                for subgroup in group_data['children']:
+                    self._parse_group(subgroup, group_data['children'][subgroup])
+                    self.inventory.add_child(group, subgroup)
 
-                if group_data.get('children', False):
-                    for subgroup in group_data['children']:
-                        self._parse_group(subgroup, group_data['children'][subgroup])
-                        self.inventory.add_child(group, subgroup)
-
-                if group_data.get('hosts', False):
-                    for host_pattern in group_data['hosts']:
-                        hosts, port = self._parse_host(host_pattern)
-                        self.populate_host_vars(hosts, group_data['hosts'][host_pattern] or {}, group, port)
-        else:
-            self.display.warning("Skipping '%s' as this is not a valid group name" % group)
+            if group_data.get('hosts', False):
+                for host_pattern in group_data['hosts']:
+                    hosts, port = self._parse_host(host_pattern)
+                    self.populate_host_vars(hosts, group_data['hosts'][host_pattern] or {}, group, port)
 
     def _parse_host(self, host_pattern):
         '''
@@ -162,9 +155,3 @@ class InventoryModule(BaseFileInventoryPlugin):
             hostnames = [pattern]
 
         return (hostnames, port)
-
-    def _compile_patterns(self):
-        '''
-        Compiles the regular expressions required to parse the inventory and stores them in self.patterns.
-        '''
-        self.patterns['groupname'] = re.compile(u'''^[A-Za-z_][A-Za-z0-9_]*$''')