* Move var plugins handling to a separate file
* Allow var plugins to require whitelisting
* Add global configuration ('demand', 'start') for users to control when they execute
* Add 'stage' configuration ('all', 'task', 'inventory') for users to control on a per-plugin basis when they execute
* Update ansible-inventory and InventoryManager to the global and stage configuration
* Update host_group_vars to use stage configuration and whitelisting
* Add documentation for using new options and to the developer's guide
* Add integration tests to exercise whitelisting and the new configuration options, using vars plugins in collections, and maintain backward compatibility
* Changelog
Co-Authored-By: Brian Coca <brian.coca+git@gmail.com>
Co-Authored-By: Sandra McCann <samccann@redhat.com>
* Fix validate-modules support for collections.
- Relative imports now work correctly.
- The collection loader is now used.
- Modules are invoked as `__main__`.
* Remove obsolete validate-modules code ignores.
* Handle sys.exit in validate-modules.
* Add check for AnsibleModule initialization.
* Remove `missing-module-utils-import` check.
This check does not support relative imports or collections.
Instead of trying to overhaul the test, we can rely on the `ansible-module-not-initialized` test instead.
* Fix badly named error codes with `c#` in the name.
The `#` conflicts with comments in the sanity test ignore files.
* Add changelog entries.
Add a list of previously used release names to make it easy to tell what
release names are no longer usable.
Add a test that new release names have been added to the used list.
Fixes#61616
* Change collection PS util import pattern
* Add changes for py2 compat
* fix up regex and doc errors
* fix up import analysis
* Sanity fix for 2.6 CI workers
* Get collection util path for coverage collection
* ansible-galaxy: support multiple servers on install
* Added docs for the server configuration file
* Fix up doc string for requirements file format
* Fix bugs after testing
* Fix kwarg doc and added version
* Fix typo and doc improvement
* Fix base64 encoding and allow --server to override list
* Add writing new tests subsection to vmware_guidelines
Specifically address use of the prepare_vmware_tests role
Point to common vars for use by test writers
Co-Authored-By: Abhijeet Kasurde <akasurde@redhat.com>
This will help prevent accidental merging of content to recently obsoleted directories when adding new files.
It may also help contributors who have modified obsolete files understand where their changes should now be made.
