Changes to the metadata format were approved here:
https://github.com/ansible/proposals/issues/54
* Update documentation to the new metadata format
* Changes to metadata-tool to account for new metadata
* Add GPL license header
* Add upgrade subcommand to upgrade metadata version
* Change default metadata to the new format
* Fix exclusion of non-modules from the metadata report
* Fix ansible-doc for new module metadata
* Exclude metadata version from ansible-doc output
* Fix website docs generation for the new metadata
* Update metadata schema in valiate-modules test
* Update the metadata in all modules to the new version
Raise the bar for module `DOCUMENTAION`
This validator update was used to find the issues in https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/22297/files
**Validation**
* Updated Validation and docs to enforce more (items fixed in https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/22297/files)
* Use `suboptions` to document complex options
* Validate module name
* Validate deprecated modules have correct ANSIBLE_METADATA
**Module Documentation Generation**
* Document `suboptions:` Example https://gist.github.com/gundalow/4bdc3669d696268328ccc18528cc6718
* Tidy up HTML generation (valid HTML, no empty lists, etc)
**Documentation**
* Clarify the steps for deprecating a module
* Use correct RST headings
* Document `suboptions:` (options)
* Document `contains:` (returns)
**Details**
The aim is to get this (and corresponding module updates) complete by the time `devel` becomes `2.4`, as this allows us to raise the bar for new modules
Example `suboptions` https://gist.github.com/gundalow/4bdc3669d696268328ccc18528cc6718
The aim is to get this PR integrated into `devel` *before* we branch `stable-2.3`, this will allows us to:
* Raise the bar for new modules in 2.4
* Ensure the generated module documentation for 2.3 and higher is improved, important as we will be doing versioned docs moving forward.
* Fix string formatting
* Provide better tracebacks
* When options is None and extends_documentation_fragment is in use, add an error that options must be a dict
* If options was specified and not a dict, then error
* Re-enable module comparisons, specifically for new module detection and for finding new options/arguments
* Only do new module checks in shippable, local will display warning
* Update validate-modules
* Validates ANSIBLE_METADATA
* Ensures imports happen after documentation vars
* Some pep8 cleanup
* Clean up some left over unneeded code
* Update modules for new module guidelines and validate-modules checks
* Update imports for ec2_vpc_route_table and ec2_vpc_nat_gateway
Print out the data that fails to validate when doing
schema checking on modules
This allows easier interpretation of error messages.
From:
```
ERROR: DOCUMENTATION.notes.2: expected basestring
```
To:
```
ERROR: DOCUMENTATION.notes.2: expected basestring @ data['notes'][2].
Got {"As with C(include) this task can be static or dynamic, If static
it implies that it won't need templating nor loops nor conditionals and
will show included tasks in the --list options. Ansible will try to
autodetect what is needed, but you can set `static": 'yes|no` at task
level to control this.'}
```
This allows validate-modules to run in an environment where
python 3 is the default. This will no longer be necessary once
validate-modules is updated to work with both python 2 and 3.
Matt Clay