Gcp auth deprecation (#44866)

lib/ansible/module_utils/gcp.py

@@ -237,7 +237,7 @@ def _validate_credentials_file(module, credentials_file, require_valid_json=True
     :param credentials_file: path to file on disk
     :type credentials_file: ``str``.  Complete path to file on disk.
 
-    :param require_valid_json: If true, require credentials to be valid JSON.  Default is True.
+    :param require_valid_json: This argument is ignored as of Ansible 2.7.
     :type require_valid_json: ``bool``
 
     :params check_libcloud: If true, check the libcloud version available to see if
@@ -263,14 +263,9 @@ def _validate_credentials_file(module, credentials_file, require_valid_json=True
                          credentials_file, changed=False)
         return False
     except ValueError as e:
-        if require_valid_json:
         module.fail_json(
-                msg='GCP Credentials File %s invalid.  Must be valid JSON.' % credentials_file, changed=False)
-        else:
-            module.deprecate(msg=("Non-JSON credentials file provided. This format is deprecated. "
-                                  " Please generate a new JSON key from the Google Cloud console"),
-                             version=2.5)
-            return True
+            msg='Non-JSON credentials file provided. Please generate a new JSON key from the Google Cloud console',
+            changed=False)
 
 
 def gcp_connect(module, provider, get_driver, user_agent_product, user_agent_version):

test/units/module_utils/gcp/test_auth.py

@@ -151,16 +151,16 @@ class GCPAuthTestCase(unittest.TestCase):
     def test_validate_credentials_file(self):
         # TODO(supertom): Only dealing with p12 here, check the other states
         # of this function
-        module = mock.MagicMock()
+        module = FakeModule()
         with mock.patch("ansible.module_utils.gcp.open",
                         mock.mock_open(read_data='foobar'), create=True) as m:
             # pem condition, warning is suppressed with the return_value
             credentials_file = '/foopath/pem.pem'
-            is_valid = _validate_credentials_file(module,
+            with self.assertRaises(ValueError):
+                _validate_credentials_file(module,
                                            credentials_file=credentials_file,
                                            require_valid_json=False,
                                            check_libcloud=False)
-            self.assertTrue(is_valid)
 
     @mock.patch('ansible.module_utils.gcp._get_gcp_environ_var',
                 side_effect=fake_get_gcp_environ_var)