use inkey attribute in _process_object_types recursive loop to generate key name in skip_keys directive.
This permit to ignore nested variables, for example summary.vm to optimize inventory collect
* vmware_inventory: permit to group by custom field
This permits to create instances, affect some custom fields like EC2 tags and then retrieve groups from custom fields like EC2 inventory
* vmware_inventory: Customize skip_keys & add resourceconfig to skip_keys
Verify if customfield is a str before processing custom fields for a host
* Fix many points reported by PyCharm as PEP 8 code style
* Improve inventory performance by dropping vim.HostSystem & vim.VirtualMachine collect when depth >= 2
* Declare some class variables properly
* Remove some unused variables
* Add documentation in vmware_inventory.ini for VMWARE_USERNAME & VMWARE_PASSWORD env vars
This forces basic auth to be used. Using the normal HTTPPasswordMgrWithDefaultRealm
password manager from urllib2 fails since collins doesn't send a 401 retry on failure.
More about this can be seen here http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2407126/python-urllib2-basic-auth-problem.
I added a small comment about the format of the host so others don't waste time like i did.
- Remove shebangs from:
- ini files
- unit tests
- module_utils
- plugins
- module_docs_fragments
- non-executable Makefiles
- Change non-modules from '/usr/bin/python' to '/usr/bin/env python'.
- Change '/bin/env' to '/usr/bin/env'.
Also removed main functions from unit tests (since they no longer
have a shebang) and fixed a python 3 compatibility issue with
update_bundled.py so it does not need to specify a python 2 shebang.
A script was added to check for unexpected shebangs in files.
This script is run during CI on Shippable.
* [GCE] Caching support for inventory script.
The GCE inventory script now supports reading from a cache rather than making the request each time. The format of the list and host output have not changed.
On script execution, the cache is checked to see if it older than 'cache_max_age', and if so, it is rebuilt (it can also be explicity rebuilt).
To support this functionality, the following have been added.
* Config file (gce.ini) changes: A new 'cache' section has been added to the config file, with 'cache_path' and 'cache_max_age' options to allow for configuration. There are intelligent defaults in place if that section and options are not found in the configuration file.
* Command line argument: A new --refresh-cache argument has been added to force the cache to be rebuild.
* A CloudInventoryCache class, contained in the same file has been added. As a seperate class, it allowed for testing (unit tests not included in this PR) and hopefully could be re-used in the future (it contains borrowed code from other inventory scripts)
* load_inventory_from_cache and do_api_calls_and_update_cache methods (, which were largely lifted from other inventory scripts, in a hope to promote consistency in the future) to determine if the cache is fresh and rebuild if necessary.
* A 'main' check, to support the script being imported and testable.
A new dictionary has been added to the list output, located at ['_meta']['stats'] that informs if the cache was used and how long it took to load the inventory (in 'cache_used' and 'inventory_load_time', respectively).
* fixed default value error; change cache time to 300
This fixes the use of public IPs in the discovered hosts by
ensuring that the use_private_network check doesn't always evaluate
to False if the associated .ini file specifies this option.
Currently the machine_type will not work if the instance type is set in ovirt. In that case, inst.get_instance_type will be an object and will fails while converting to json. This only work if the instance type is not set in ovirt where inst.get_instance_type is a Null value. The current change make sure that correct "instance type" is passed when instance is set in ovirt and Null when it's not set in ovirt.
* vmware_inventory: fix the --host option
* Fix skip_key evaluation
* Short circuit deep dives in datastores and resourcegroups
* Put timestamps in the debug output and add a few more
* Implement a user defined proplist to increase performance
* Make all props into dicts
* Update ini with example
* Fix tests
Trying to preserve the meaning of the examples. Not all occurrences in
`docsite/rst/playbooks_lookups.rst` have been changed for instance to
allow the unchanged examples to be used for testing.
Related to: #17479
* vmware_inventory script improvements
* switch instance finding method to use containerview based searches
* overhaul the serialization method for objects
* Cleanup the debug outputs
* Add a warning about performance
Matt Clay