find - set proper default based on use_regex (#73961)

When using "use_regex: yes" and setting an excludes: without
specifying a pattern: the existing code passes the file-glob '*' to
the regex matcher.  This results in an internal invalid-regex
exception being thrown.

This maintains the old semantics of a default match-all for pattern:
but switches the default to '.*' when use_regex is specified.

The code made sense as-is before excludes: was added (2.5).  In that
case, it made no sense to set use_regex but *not* set a pattern.
However, with excludes: it now makes sense to only want to exclude a
given regex but not specify a specific matching pattern.

Closes: #50067

* moved change to new location
added changelog

* Update lib/ansible/modules/find.py


Co-authored-by: Ian Wienand <iwienand@redhat.com>
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Brian Coca 4 years ago committed by GitHub
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@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
bugfixes:
- find module, fix default pattern when use_regex is true.

@ -29,7 +29,7 @@ options:
first letter of any of those words (e.g., "1w").
type: str
patterns:
default: '*'
default: []
description:
- One or more (shell or regex) patterns, which type is controlled by C(use_regex) option.
- The patterns restrict the list of files to be returned to those whose basenames match at
@ -41,6 +41,7 @@ options:
- This parameter expects a list, which can be either comma separated or YAML. If any of the
patterns contain a comma, make sure to put them in a list to avoid splitting the patterns
in undesirable ways.
- Defaults to '*' when C(use_regex=False), or '.*' when C(use_regex=True).
type: list
aliases: [ pattern ]
elements: str
@ -375,7 +376,7 @@ def main():
module = AnsibleModule(
argument_spec=dict(
paths=dict(type='list', required=True, aliases=['name', 'path'], elements='str'),
patterns=dict(type='list', default=['*'], aliases=['pattern'], elements='str'),
patterns=dict(type='list', default=[], aliases=['pattern'], elements='str'),
excludes=dict(type='list', aliases=['exclude'], elements='str'),
contains=dict(type='str'),
read_whole_file=dict(type='bool', default=False),
@ -395,6 +396,16 @@ def main():
params = module.params
# Set the default match pattern to either a match-all glob or
# regex depending on use_regex being set. This makes sure if you
# set excludes: without a pattern pfilter gets something it can
# handle.
if not params['patterns']:
if params['use_regex']:
params['patterns'] = ['.*']
else:
params['patterns'] = ['*']
filelist = []
if params['age'] is None:

@ -251,3 +251,24 @@
# dir contents are considered until the depth exceeds the requested depth
# there are 8 files/directories in the requested depth and 4 that exceed it by 1
- files_with_depth.examined == 12
- name: exclude with regex
find:
paths: "{{ output_dir_test }}"
recurse: yes
use_regex: true
exclude: .*\.ogg
register: find_test3
# Note that currently sane ways of doing this with map() or
# selectattr() aren't available in centos6 era jinja2 ...
- set_fact:
find_test3_list: >-
[ {% for f in find_test3.files %}
{{ f.path }}
{% if not loop.last %},{% endif %}
{% endfor %}
]
- debug: var=find_test3_list
- name: assert we skipped the ogg file
assert:
that:
- '"{{ output_dir_test }}/e/f/g/h/8.ogg" not in find_test3_list'

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