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Update the developing doc to modern method of specifying bool argspec values

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Toshio Kuratomi 2015-12-22 07:22:44 -08:00
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@ -247,7 +247,7 @@ And instantiating the module class like::
argument_spec = dict( argument_spec = dict(
state = dict(default='present', choices=['present', 'absent']), state = dict(default='present', choices=['present', 'absent']),
name = dict(required=True), name = dict(required=True),
enabled = dict(required=True, choices=BOOLEANS), enabled = dict(required=True, type='bool'),
something = dict(aliases=['whatever']) something = dict(aliases=['whatever'])
) )
) )
@ -335,7 +335,7 @@ and guidelines:
* If you have a company module that returns facts specific to your installations, a good name for this module is `site_facts`. * If you have a company module that returns facts specific to your installations, a good name for this module is `site_facts`.
* Modules accepting boolean status should generally accept 'yes', 'no', 'true', 'false', or anything else a user may likely throw at them. The AnsibleModule common code supports this with "choices=BOOLEANS" and a module.boolean(value) casting function. * Modules accepting boolean status should generally accept 'yes', 'no', 'true', 'false', or anything else a user may likely throw at them. The AnsibleModule common code supports this with "type='bool'" and a module.boolean(value) casting function.
* Include a minimum of dependencies if possible. If there are dependencies, document them at the top of the module file, and have the module raise JSON error messages when the import fails. * Include a minimum of dependencies if possible. If there are dependencies, document them at the top of the module file, and have the module raise JSON error messages when the import fails.