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+# (c) 2012-2014, Michael DeHaan <michael.dehaan@gmail.com>
+#
+# This file is part of Ansible
+#
+# Ansible is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
+# it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
+# the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
+# (at your option) any later version.
+#
+# Ansible is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
+# but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
+# MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
+# GNU General Public License for more details.
+#
+# You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
+# along with Ansible.  If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
+
+# Make coding more python3-ish
+from __future__ import (absolute_import, division)
+__metaclass__ = type
+
+from ansible.plugins.callback import CallbackBase
+
+class CallbackModule(CallbackBase):
+
+    '''
+    This is the default callback interface, which simply prints messages
+    to stdout when new callback events are received.
+    '''
+
+    CALLBACK_VERSION = 2.0
+    CALLBACK_TYPE = 'stdout'
+    CALLBACK_NAME = 'skippy'
+
+    def v2_runner_on_failed(self, result, ignore_errors=False):
+        if 'exception' in result._result:
+            if self._display.verbosity < 3:
+                # extract just the actual error message from the exception text
+                error = result._result['exception'].strip().split('\n')[-1]
+                msg = "An exception occurred during task execution. To see the full traceback, use -vvv. The error was: %s" % error
+            else:
+                msg = "An exception occurred during task execution. The full traceback is:\n" + result._result['exception']
+
+            self._display.display(msg, color='red')
+
+            # finally, remove the exception from the result so it's not shown every time
+            del result._result['exception']
+
+        self._display.display("fatal: [%s]: FAILED! => %s" % (result._host.get_name(), self._dump_results(result._result)), color='red')
+
+        if result._task.ignore_errors:
+            self._display.display("...ignoring", color='cyan')
+
+    def v2_runner_on_ok(self, result):
+
+        if result._task.action == 'include':
+            msg = 'included: %s for %s' % (result._task.args.get('_raw_params'), result._host.name)
+            color = 'cyan'
+        elif result._result.get('changed', False):
+            msg = "changed: [%s]" % result._host.get_name()
+            color = 'yellow'
+        else:
+            msg = "ok: [%s]" % result._host.get_name()
+            color = 'green'
+
+        if (self._display.verbosity > 0 or 'verbose_always' in result._result) and result._task.action not in ('setup', 'include'):
+            indent = None
+            if 'verbose_always' in result._result:
+                indent = 4
+                del result._result['verbose_always']
+            msg += " => %s" % self._dump_results(result._result, indent=indent)
+
+        self._display.display(msg, color=color)
+        self._handle_warnings(result._result)
+
+    def v2_runner_on_unreachable(self, result):
+        self._display.display("fatal: [%s]: UNREACHABLE! => %s" % (result._host.get_name(), self._dump_results(result._result)), color='red')
+
+    def v2_playbook_on_no_hosts_matched(self):
+        self._display.display("skipping: no hosts matched", color='cyan')
+
+    def v2_playbook_on_no_hosts_remaining(self):
+        self._display.banner("NO MORE HOSTS LEFT")
+
+    def v2_playbook_on_task_start(self, task, is_conditional):
+        self._display.banner("TASK [%s]" % task.get_name().strip())
+
+    def v2_playbook_on_cleanup_task_start(self, task):
+        self._display.banner("CLEANUP TASK [%s]" % task.get_name().strip())
+
+    def v2_playbook_on_handler_task_start(self, task):
+        self._display.banner("RUNNING HANDLER [%s]" % task.get_name().strip())
+
+    def v2_playbook_on_play_start(self, play):
+        name = play.get_name().strip()
+        if not name:
+            msg = "PLAY"
+        else:
+            msg = "PLAY [%s]" % name
+
+        self._display.banner(name)