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+# (c) 2017, Brian Coca <bcoca@ansible.com>
+#
+# 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/>.
+#
+
+from __future__ import (absolute_import, division, print_function)
+__metaclass__ = type
+
+import optparse
+from operator import attrgetter
+
+from ansible.cli import CLI
+from ansible.errors import AnsibleOptionsError
+from ansible.parsing.dataloader import DataLoader
+
+try:
+    from __main__ import display
+except ImportError:
+    from ansible.utils.display import Display
+    display = Display()
+
+INTERNAL_VARS = frozenset(['ansible_facts', 'ansible_version',
+                           'ansible_playbook_python',
+                           'inventory_dir',
+                           'inventory_file',
+                           'inventory_hostname',
+                           'inventory_hostname_short',
+                           'groups',
+                           'group_names',
+                           'omit',
+                           'playbook_dir', ])
+
+
+class InventoryCLI(CLI):
+    ''' used to display or dump the configured inventory as Ansible sees it '''
+
+    ARGUMENTS = {'host': 'The name of a host to match in the inventory, relevant when using --list',
+                 'group': 'The name of a group in the inventory, relevant when using --graph', }
+
+    def __init__(self, args):
+
+        super(InventoryCLI, self).__init__(args)
+        self.vm = None
+        self.loader = None
+        self.inventory = None
+
+        self._new_api = True
+
+    def parse(self):
+
+        self.parser = CLI.base_parser(
+            usage='usage: %prog [options] [host|group]',
+            epilog='Show Ansible inventory information, by default it uses the inventory script JSON format',
+            inventory_opts=True,
+            vault_opts=True
+        )
+
+        # Actions
+        action_group = optparse.OptionGroup(self.parser, "Actions", "One of following must be used on invocation, ONLY ONE!")
+        action_group.add_option("--list", action="store_true", default=False, dest='list', help='Output all hosts info, works as inventory script')
+        action_group.add_option("--host", action="store", default=None, dest='host', help='Output specific host info, works as inventory script')
+        action_group.add_option("--graph", action="store_true", default=False, dest='graph',
+                                help='create inventory graph, if supplying pattern it must be a valid group name')
+        self.parser.add_option_group(action_group)
+
+        # Options
+        self.parser.add_option("-y", "--yaml", action="store_true", default=False, dest='yaml',
+                               help='Use YAML format instead of default JSON, ignored for --graph')
+        self.parser.add_option("--vars", action="store_true", default=False, dest='show_vars',
+                               help='Add vars to graph display, ignored unless used with --graph')
+
+        super(InventoryCLI, self).parse()
+
+        display.verbosity = self.options.verbosity
+
+        self.validate_conflicts(vault_opts=True)
+
+        # there can be only one! and, at least, one!
+        used = 0
+        for opt in (self.options.list, self.options.host, self.options.graph):
+            if opt:
+                used += 1
+        if used == 0:
+            raise AnsibleOptionsError("No action selected, at least one of --host, --graph or --list needs to be specified.")
+        elif used > 1:
+            raise AnsibleOptionsError("Conflicting options used, only one of --host, --graph or --list can be used at the same time.")
+
+        # set host pattern to default if not supplied
+        if len(self.args) > 0:
+            self.options.pattern = self.args[0]
+        else:
+            self.options.pattern = 'all'
+
+    def run(self):
+
+        results = None
+
+        super(InventoryCLI, self).run()
+
+        # Initialize needed objects
+        if getattr(self, '_play_prereqs', False):
+            self.loader, self.inventory, self.vm = self._play_prereqs(self.options)
+        else:
+            # fallback to pre 2.4 way of initialzing
+            from ansible.vars import VariableManager
+            from ansible.inventory import Inventory
+
+            self._new_api = False
+            self.loader = DataLoader()
+            self.vm = VariableManager()
+
+            # use vault if needed
+            if self.options.vault_password_file:
+                vault_pass = CLI.read_vault_password_file(self.options.vault_password_file, loader=self.loader)
+            elif self.options.ask_vault_pass:
+                vault_pass = self.ask_vault_passwords()
+            else:
+                vault_pass = None
+
+            if vault_pass:
+                self.loader.set_vault_password(vault_pass)
+                # actually get inventory and vars
+
+            self.inventory = Inventory(loader=self.loader, variable_manager=self.vm, host_list=self.options.inventory)
+            self.vm.set_inventory(self.inventory)
+
+        if self.options.host:
+            hosts = self.inventory.get_hosts(self.options.host)
+            if len(hosts) != 1:
+                raise AnsibleOptionsError("You must pass a single valid host to --hosts parameter")
+
+            myvars = self._get_host_variables(host=hosts[0])
+            self._remove_internal(myvars)
+
+            # FIXME: should we template first?
+            results = self.dump(myvars)
+
+        elif self.options.graph:
+            results = self.inventory_graph()
+        elif self.options.list:
+            top = self._get_group('all')
+            if self.options.yaml:
+                results = self.yaml_inventory(top)
+            else:
+                results = self.json_inventory(top)
+            results = self.dump(results)
+
+        if results:
+            # FIXME: pager?
+            display.display(results)
+            exit(0)
+
+        exit(1)
+
+    def dump(self, stuff):
+
+        if self.options.yaml:
+            import yaml
+            from ansible.parsing.yaml.dumper import AnsibleDumper
+            results = yaml.dump(stuff, Dumper=AnsibleDumper, default_flow_style=False)
+        else:
+            import json
+            results = json.dumps(stuff, sort_keys=True, indent=4)
+
+        return results
+
+    def _get_host_variables(self, host):
+        if self._new_api:
+            hostvars = self.vm.get_vars(host=host)
+        else:
+            hostvars = self.vm.get_vars(self.loader, host=host)
+        return hostvars
+
+    def _get_group(self, gname):
+        if self._new_api:
+            group = self.inventory.groups.get(gname)
+        else:
+            group = self.inventory.get_group(gname)
+        return group
+
+    def _remove_internal(self, dump):
+
+        for internal in INTERNAL_VARS:
+            if internal in dump:
+                del dump[internal]
+
+    def _remove_empty(self, dump):
+        # remove empty keys
+        for x in ('hosts', 'vars', 'children'):
+            if x in dump and not dump[x]:
+                del dump[x]
+
+    def _show_vars(self, dump, depth):
+        result = []
+        self._remove_internal(dump)
+        if self.options.show_vars:
+            for (name, val) in sorted(dump.items()):
+                result.append(self._graph_name('{%s = %s}' % (name, val), depth + 1))
+        return result
+
+    def _graph_name(self, name, depth=0):
+        if depth:
+            name = "  |" * (depth) + "--%s" % name
+        return name
+
+    def _graph_group(self, group, depth=0):
+
+        result = [self._graph_name('@%s:' % group.name, depth)]
+        depth = depth + 1
+        for kid in sorted(group.child_groups, key=attrgetter('name')):
+            result.extend(self._graph_group(kid, depth))
+
+        if group.name != 'all':
+            for host in sorted(group.hosts, key=attrgetter('name')):
+                result.append(self._graph_name(host.name, depth))
+                result.extend(self._show_vars(host.get_vars(), depth))
+
+        result.extend(self._show_vars(group.get_vars(), depth))
+
+        return result
+
+    def inventory_graph(self):
+
+        start_at = self._get_group(self.options.pattern)
+        if start_at:
+            return '\n'.join(self._graph_group(start_at))
+        else:
+            raise AnsibleOptionsError("Pattern must be valid group name when using --graph")
+
+    def json_inventory(self, top):
+
+        def format_group(group):
+            results = {}
+            results[group.name] = {}
+            if group.name != 'all':
+                results[group.name]['hosts'] = [h.name for h in sorted(group.hosts, key=attrgetter('name'))]
+            results[group.name]['vars'] = group.get_vars()
+            results[group.name]['children'] = []
+            for subgroup in sorted(group.child_groups, key=attrgetter('name')):
+                results[group.name]['children'].append(subgroup.name)
+                results.update(format_group(subgroup))
+
+            self._remove_empty(results[group.name])
+            return results
+
+        results = format_group(top)
+
+        # populate meta
+        results['_meta'] = {'hostvars': {}}
+        hosts = self.inventory.get_hosts()
+        for host in hosts:
+            results['_meta']['hostvars'][host.name] = self._get_host_variables(host=host)
+            self._remove_internal(results['_meta']['hostvars'][host.name])
+
+        return results
+
+    def yaml_inventory(self, top):
+
+        seen = []
+
+        def format_group(group):
+            results = {}
+
+            # initialize group + vars
+            results[group.name] = {}
+            results[group.name]['vars'] = group.get_vars()
+
+            # subgroups
+            results[group.name]['children'] = {}
+            for subgroup in sorted(group.child_groups, key=attrgetter('name')):
+                if subgroup.name != 'all':
+                    results[group.name]['children'].update(format_group(subgroup))
+
+            # hosts for group
+            results[group.name]['hosts'] = {}
+            if group.name != 'all':
+                for h in sorted(group.hosts, key=attrgetter('name')):
+                    myvars = {}
+                    if h.name not in seen:  # avoid defining host vars more than once
+                        seen.append(h.name)
+                        myvars = self._get_host_variables(host=h)
+                        self._remove_internal(myvars)
+                    results[group.name]['hosts'][h.name] = myvars
+
+            self._remove_empty(results[group.name])
+            return results
+
+        return format_group(top)