Before this minor change, the '--limit' and '--start-at-task'
ansible-playbook command line arguments were enclosed into single
quotes. Using double quotes adds a bit more flexibility, especially
about the task name referred by `start_at_task` option.
It also aligns with the handling of the '--extra-vars' parameter
(see cb80286).
Without this change, the JSON string generated from the `extra_vars`
Ruby hash is passed without enclosing quotes and is then not parseable
by the ansible-playbook command when exectuted in a usual shell context.
In this changeset, the ansible (remote) unit test coverage is improved
to cover both usage of `extra_vars` (ansible_local unit tests are still
missing).
Additional Notes:
- Double quotes are favored to single quotes in order to allow usage of
any character for the variable values. For this reason additional
escaping is appended to JSON-inner double quotes and backslashes.
- This problem was not affecting the `ansible` remote provisioner
(which is running the ansible-playbook command via the childprocess
Ruby library). But with this change, the `verbose` output will also
now be correct for a copy-paste reuse.
- After this change, all the "--extra-vars" arguments (also a var
file passed with the @-syntax or anything coming via the
`raw_arguments` option) are "blindly" and systematically enclosed
in double quoted and double-escaped.
This is not optimal and can potentially break with peculiar values
(e.g. a double quote character (") cannot be used in a json value
when using `raw_arguments`). That said, I think that the current
solution is a reasonable trade-off, since the official `extra_vars`
option should now be able to cover a great majority of use cases.
Fix#6726
The sentinal file was always being ignored when running the
resume command. This is fixed along with allowing provision
options to be used with resume. Fixes#6787
Fixed error remains in other versions:
return [] if e.extra_data[:stdout].include?("does not have")
should be
return [] if e.extra_data[:stderr].include?("does not have")
Many methods are the same in different version_X, and should be moved to Base class.
Previously the default channel was "current", but after discussion with
@coderanger on GH-6979, it seems like this was a poor design decision.
Instead, we should use the stable channel and allow users to opt-in to
prerelease versions.
Fixes GH-6979
Gilles Cornu
Matt Wrock
Paul Hinze
Jon Topper
Seth Vargo
Andres Montalban
Marchenko Alexandr
Kamjar Gerami
Geo
Donald Guy
Mark Peek
Andrew Murray
Evgeniy N
Kevin Blair
Jeff Zohrab
Budhram Gurung
Gaurav Chaturvedi
Éric Veiras Galisson
James Thomas