Added code to allow insertion of boilerplate into modules to make them able to share lots of code, the result

should be a huge reduction of total ansible source, at a slight cost of difficulty in original module development.

We need to apply this now to all modules, but may need to have some exemptions to things like command, which should
subclass this module.

slurp

@@ -17,60 +17,24 @@
 # You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
 # along with Ansible.  If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
 
-import sys
-import os
-import shlex
 import base64
-import syslog
 
-try:
-   import json
-except ImportError:
-   import simplejson as json
+# this is magic, see lib/ansible/module_common.py
+#<<INCLUDE_ANSIBLE_MODULE_COMMON>>
 
-# ===========================================
-# convert arguments of form a=b c=d
-# to a dictionary
+module = AnsibleModule(
+    argument_spec = dict(
+        src=(None,True),
+    )
+)
+source = module.params['src']
 
-if len(sys.argv) == 1:
-    sys.exit(1)
-argfile = sys.argv[1]
-if not os.path.exists(argfile):
-    sys.exit(1)
-
-args = open(argfile, 'r').read()
-items = shlex.split(args)
-syslog.openlog('ansible-%s' % os.path.basename(__file__))
-syslog.syslog(syslog.LOG_NOTICE, 'Invoked with %s' % args)
-
-params = {}
-for x in items:
-    (k, v) = x.split("=")
-    params[k] = v
-source  = os.path.expanduser(params['src'])
-
-# ==========================================
- 
-# raise an error if there is no template metadata
 if not os.path.exists(source):
-    print json.dumps(dict(
-        failed = 1,
-        msg    = "file not found: %s" % source
-    ))
-    sys.exit(1)
-
+    module.fail_json(msg="file not found: %s" % source)
 if not os.access(source, os.R_OK):
-    print json.dumps(dict(
-        failed = 1,
-        msg    = "file is not readable: %s" % source
-    ))
-    sys.exit(1)
-
-# ==========================================
+    module.fail_json(msg="file is not readable: %s" % source)
 
-data = file(source).read()
-data = base64.b64encode(data)
+data = base64.b64encode(file(source).read())
 
-print json.dumps(dict(content=data, encoding='base64'))
-sys.exit(0)
+module.exit_json(content=data, encoding='base64')