Allow variables coming in from the playbook and the API to be expressed as dictionaries throughout their full life cycle

such that nested data can be made available in templates and playbooks.

setup

@@ -23,6 +23,7 @@ import sys
 import os
 import shlex
 import subprocess
+import traceback
 
 try:
     import json
@@ -34,18 +35,22 @@ except ImportError:
 if len(sys.argv) == 1:
     sys.exit(1)
 
+
 argfile = sys.argv[1]
 if not os.path.exists(argfile):
     sys.exit(1)
 
-input_data = shlex.split(open(argfile, 'r').read())
-
-# turn urlencoded k=v string (space delimited) to regular k=v directionary
-splitted = [x.split('=',1) for x in input_data ]
-splitted = [ (x[0], x[1].replace("~~~"," ")) for x in splitted ]
-new_options = dict(splitted)
+setup_options = open(argfile).read().strip()
+try:
+   setup_options = json.loads(setup_options)
+except:
+   list_options = shlex.split(setup_options)
+   setup_options = {}
+   for opt in list_options:
+       (k,v) = opt.split("=")
+       setup_options[k]=v   
 
-ansible_file = new_options.get('metadata', DEFAULT_ANSIBLE_SETUP)
+ansible_file = setup_options.get('metadata', DEFAULT_ANSIBLE_SETUP)
 ansible_dir = os.path.dirname(ansible_file)
 
 # create the config dir if it doesn't exist
@@ -74,7 +79,7 @@ if os.path.exists("/usr/bin/facter"):
        facter = False
    if facter:
        for (k,v) in facter_ds.items():
-           new_options["facter_%s" % k] = v
+           setup_options["facter_%s" % k] = v
 
 # ditto for ohai, but just top level string keys
 # because it contains a lot of nested stuff we can't use for
@@ -93,13 +98,13 @@ if os.path.exists("/usr/bin/ohai"):
        for (k,v) in ohai_ds.items():
            if type(v) == str or type(v) == unicode:
                k2 = "ohai_%s" % k
-               new_options[k2] = v
+               setup_options[k2] = v
 
 # write the template/settings file using
 # instructions from server
 
 f = open(ansible_file, "w+")
-reformat = json.dumps(new_options, sort_keys=True, indent=4)
+reformat = json.dumps(setup_options, sort_keys=True, indent=4)
 f.write(reformat)
 f.close()
 
@@ -108,9 +113,9 @@ md5sum2 = os.popen("md5sum %s" % ansible_file).read().split()[0]
 if md5sum != md5sum2:
    changed = True
 
-new_options['written'] = ansible_file
-new_options['changed'] = changed
-new_options['md5sum']  = md5sum2 
+setup_options['written'] = ansible_file
+setup_options['changed'] = changed
+setup_options['md5sum']  = md5sum2 
 
-print json.dumps(new_options)
+print json.dumps(setup_options)