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Toshio Kuratomi 52449cc01a AnsiballZ improvements
Now that we don't need to worry about python-2.4 and 2.5, we can make
some improvements to the way AnsiballZ handles modules.

* Change AnsiballZ wrapper to use import to invoke the module
  We need the module to think of itself as a script because it could be
  coded as:

      main()

  or as:

      if __name__ == '__main__':
          main()

  Or even as:

      if __name__ == '__main__':
          random_function_name()

  A script will invoke all of those.  Prior to this change, we invoked
  a second Python interpreter on the module so that it really was
  a script.  However, this means that we have to run python twice (once
  for the AnsiballZ wrapper and once for the module).  This change makes
  the module think that it is a script (because __name__ in the module ==
  '__main__') but it's actually being invoked by us importing the module
  code.

  There's three ways we've come up to do this.
  * The most elegant is to use zipimporter and tell the import mechanism
    that the module being loaded is __main__:
    * 5959f11c9d/lib/ansible/executor/module_common.py (L175)
    * zipimporter is nice because we do not have to extract the module from
      the zip file and save it to the disk when we do that.  The import
      machinery does it all for us.
    * The drawback is that modules do not have a __file__ which points
      to a real file when they do this.  Modules could be using __file__
      to for a variety of reasons, most of those probably have
      replacements (the most common one is to find a writable directory
      for temporary files.  AnsibleModule.tmpdir should be used instead)
      We can monkeypatch __file__ in fom AnsibleModule initialization
      but that's kind of gross.  There's no way I can see to do this
      from the wrapper.

  * Next, there's imp.load_module():
    * https://github.com/abadger/ansible/blob/340edf7489/lib/ansible/executor/module_common.py#L151
    * imp has the nice property of allowing us to set __name__ to
      __main__ without changing the name of the file itself
    * We also don't have to do anything special to set __file__ for
      backwards compatibility (although the reason for that is the
      drawback):
    * Its drawback is that it requires the file to exist on disk so we
      have to explicitly extract it from the zipfile and save it to
      a temporary file

  * The last choice is to use exec to execute the module:
    * https://github.com/abadger/ansible/blob/f47a4ccc76/lib/ansible/executor/module_common.py#L175
    * The code we would have to maintain for this looks pretty clean.
      In the wrapper we create a ModuleType, set __file__ on it, read
      the module's contents in from the zip file and then exec it.
    * Drawbacks: We still have to explicitly extract the file's contents
      from the zip archive instead of letting python's import mechanism
      handle it.
    * Exec also has hidden performance issues and breaks certain
      assumptions that modules could be making about their own code:
      http://lucumr.pocoo.org/2011/2/1/exec-in-python/

  Our plan is to use imp.load_module() for now, deprecate the use of
  __file__ in modules, and switch to zipimport once the deprecation
  period for __file__ is over (without monkeypatching a fake __file__ in
  via AnsibleModule).

* Rename the name of the AnsiBallZ wrapped module
  This makes it obvious that the wrapped module isn't the module file that
  we distribute.  It's part of trying to mitigate the fact that the module
  is now named __main)).py in tracebacks.

* Shield all wrapper symbols inside of a function
  With the new import code, all symbols in the wrapper become visible in
  the module.  To mitigate the chance of collisions, move most symbols
  into a toplevel function.  The only symbols left in the global namespace
  are now _ANSIBALLZ_WRAPPER and _ansiballz_main.

revised porting guide entry

Integrate code coverage collection into AnsiballZ.

ci_coverage
ci_complete
6 years ago
Claes Nästén 6308047dc9 nso_verify handle leaf-list in 4.5 and identityref (#37393)
NSO verify did not handle leaf-list value verification in 4.5 and
later due to changes made for configuration writing made.

map prefix for identityref types in verification.
7 years ago
Claes Nästén 458a07d5a4 add timeout parameter and increase default timeout for nso modules (#37391)
NSO operations can take much longer than 10 seconds as they operate on
real network equipment, set default timeout to 5 minutes and allow for
user override.
7 years ago
Claes Nästén f8d20f970f Update Cisco NSO module required versions. (#36736)
NSO modules will now work with older versions of NSO, update version
requirements.
7 years ago
Claes Nästén 5bd8a8f491 Add nso_query module to query Cisco NSO using XPath (#34188) 7 years ago
Claes Nästén d6fd9703f1 Add nso_show module for Cisco NSO (#34142)
* update version parsing and move requirements to nso_* modules

prepare for introduction of nso_show module that has other version
requirements than the existing nso_* modules.

* Add nso_show module for retreiving config from Cisco NSO

New module that supports getting configuration and operational data
from Cisco NSO.
7 years ago
Claes Nästén 5fdb39c4d1 nso_verify for Cisco NSO (#33945)
Module for verifying that configuration is as expected in Cisco NSO.
7 years ago
Claes Nästén b2bc98c161 nso_action for Cisco NSO (#32781)
nso_action module for execution actions/RPCs in NSO.
7 years ago
Ganesh Nalawade 11c9ad23d5
Refactor common network shared and platform utils code into package (#33452)
* Refactor common network shared and platform specific code into package (part-1)

As per proposal #76 refactor common network shared and platform specific
code into sub-package.
https://github.com/ansible/proposals/issues/76

*  ansible.module_utils.network.common - command shared functions
*  ansible.module_utils.network.{{ platform }} - where platform is platform specific shared functions

*  Fix review comments

* Fix review comments
7 years ago
Pilou a5c9726502 Unit tests: share common code (#31456)
* move set_module_args to units.modules.utils
* unit tests: reuse set_module_args
* unit tests: mock exit/fail_json in module.utils.ModuleTestCase
* unit tests: use module.utils.ModuleTestCase
* unit tests: fix 'import shadowed by loop variable'
7 years ago
cnasten f1fe467c22 nso_config module for setting configuration in Cisco NSO (#30973) 7 years ago