:orphan: .. _testing_validate-modules: **************** validate-modules **************** .. contents:: Topics Python program to help test or validate Ansible modules. ``validate-modules`` is one of the ``ansible-test`` Sanity Tests, see :ref:`testing_sanity` for more information. Originally developed by Matt Martz (@sivel) Usage ===== .. code:: shell cd /path/to/ansible/source source hacking/env-setup ansible-test sanity --test validate-modules Help ==== .. code:: shell usage: validate-modules [-h] [-w] [--exclude EXCLUDE] [--arg-spec] [--base-branch BASE_BRANCH] [--format {json,plain}] [--output OUTPUT] modules [modules ...] positional arguments: modules Path to module or module directory optional arguments: -h, --help show this help message and exit -w, --warnings Show warnings --exclude EXCLUDE RegEx exclusion pattern --arg-spec Analyze module argument spec --base-branch BASE_BRANCH Used in determining if new options were added --format {json,plain} Output format. Default: "plain" --output OUTPUT Output location, use "-" for stdout. Default "-" Extending validate-modules ========================== The ``validate-modules`` tool has a `schema.py `_ that is used to validate the YAML blocks, such as ``DOCUMENTATION`` and ``RETURNS``. Codes ===== ============================================================ ================== ==================== ========================================================================================= **Error Code** **Type** **Level** **Sample Message** ------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------ -------------------- ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ansible-deprecated-version Documentation Error A feature is deprecated and supposed to be removed in the current or an earlier Ansible version ansible-invalid-version Documentation Error The Ansible version at which a feature is supposed to be removed cannot be parsed ansible-module-not-initialized Syntax Error Execution of the module did not result in initialization of AnsibleModule collection-deprecated-version Documentation Error A feature is deprecated and supposed to be removed in the current or an earlier collection version collection-invalid-version Documentation Error The collection version at which a feature is supposed to be removed cannot be parsed (it must be a semantic version, see https://semver.org/) deprecation-mismatch Documentation Error Module marked as deprecated or removed in at least one of the filename, its metadata, or in DOCUMENTATION (setting DOCUMENTATION.deprecated for deprecation or removing all Documentation for removed) but not in all three places. doc-choices-do-not-match-spec Documentation Error Value for "choices" from the argument_spec does not match the documentation doc-choices-incompatible-type Documentation Error Choices value from the documentation is not compatible with type defined in the argument_spec doc-default-does-not-match-spec Documentation Error Value for "default" from the argument_spec does not match the documentation doc-default-incompatible-type Documentation Error Default value from the documentation is not compatible with type defined in the argument_spec doc-elements-invalid Documentation Error Documentation specifies elements for argument, when "type" is not ``list``. doc-elements-mismatch Documentation Error Argument_spec defines elements different than documentation does doc-missing-type Documentation Error Documentation doesn't specify a type but argument in ``argument_spec`` use default type (``str``) doc-required-mismatch Documentation Error argument in argument_spec is required but documentation says it is not, or vice versa doc-type-does-not-match-spec Documentation Error Argument_spec defines type different than documentation does documentation-error Documentation Error Unknown ``DOCUMENTATION`` error documentation-syntax-error Documentation Error Invalid ``DOCUMENTATION`` schema illegal-future-imports Imports Error Only the following ``from __future__`` imports are allowed: ``absolute_import``, ``division``, and ``print_function``. import-before-documentation Imports Error Import found before documentation variables. All imports must appear below ``DOCUMENTATION``/``EXAMPLES``/``RETURN``/``ANSIBLE_METADATA`` import-error Documentation Error ``Exception`` attempting to import module for ``argument_spec`` introspection import-placement Locations Warning Imports should be directly below ``DOCUMENTATION``/``EXAMPLES``/``RETURN``/``ANSIBLE_METADATA`` for legacy modules imports-improper-location Imports Error Imports should be directly below ``DOCUMENTATION``/``EXAMPLES``/``RETURN``/``ANSIBLE_METADATA`` incompatible-choices Documentation Error Choices value from the argument_spec is not compatible with type defined in the argument_spec incompatible-default-type Documentation Error Default value from the argument_spec is not compatible with type defined in the argument_spec invalid-argument-name Documentation Error Argument in argument_spec must not be one of 'message', 'syslog_facility' as it is used internally by Ansible Core Engine invalid-argument-spec Documentation Error Argument in argument_spec must be a dictionary/hash when used invalid-argument-spec-options Documentation Error Suboptions in argument_spec are invalid invalid-documentation Documentation Error ``DOCUMENTATION`` is not valid YAML invalid-documentation-options Documentation Error ``DOCUMENTATION.options`` must be a dictionary/hash when used invalid-examples Documentation Error ``EXAMPLES`` is not valid YAML invalid-extension Naming Error Official Ansible modules must have a ``.py`` extension for python modules or a ``.ps1`` for powershell modules invalid-metadata-status Documentation Error ``ANSIBLE_METADATA.status`` of deprecated or removed can't include other statuses invalid-metadata-type Documentation Error ``ANSIBLE_METADATA`` was not provided as a dict, YAML not supported, Invalid ``ANSIBLE_METADATA`` schema invalid-module-schema Documentation Error ``AnsibleModule`` schema validation error invalid-requires-extension Naming Error Module ``#AnsibleRequires -CSharpUtil`` should not end in .cs, Module ``#Requires`` should not end in .psm1 last-line-main-call Syntax Error Call to ``main()`` not the last line (or ``removed_module()`` in the case of deprecated & docs only modules) metadata-changed Documentation Error ``ANSIBLE_METADATA`` cannot be changed in a point release for a stable branch missing-doc-fragment Documentation Error ``DOCUMENTATION`` fragment missing missing-existing-doc-fragment Documentation Warning Pre-existing ``DOCUMENTATION`` fragment missing missing-documentation Documentation Error No ``DOCUMENTATION`` provided missing-examples Documentation Error No ``EXAMPLES`` provided missing-gplv3-license Documentation Error GPLv3 license header not found missing-if-name-main Syntax Error Next to last line is not ``if __name__ == "__main__":`` missing-main-call Syntax Error Did not find a call to ``main()`` (or ``removed_module()`` in the case of deprecated & docs only modules) missing-metadata Documentation Error No ``ANSIBLE_METADATA`` provided missing-module-utils-basic-import Imports Warning Did not find ``ansible.module_utils.basic`` import missing-module-utils-import-csharp-requirements Imports Error No ``Ansible.ModuleUtils`` or C# Ansible util requirements/imports found missing-powershell-interpreter Syntax Error Interpreter line is not ``#!powershell`` missing-python-doc Naming Error Missing python documentation file missing-python-interpreter Syntax Error Interpreter line is not ``#!/usr/bin/python`` missing-return Documentation Error No ``RETURN`` documentation provided missing-return-legacy Documentation Warning No ``RETURN`` documentation provided for legacy module missing-suboption-docs Documentation Error Argument in argument_spec has sub-options but documentation does not define sub-options module-incorrect-version-added Documentation Error Module level ``version_added`` is incorrect module-invalid-version-added Documentation Error Module level ``version_added`` is not a valid version number module-utils-specific-import Imports Error ``module_utils`` imports should import specific components, not ``*`` multiple-utils-per-requires Imports Error ``Ansible.ModuleUtils`` requirements do not support multiple modules per statement multiple-csharp-utils-per-requires Imports Error Ansible C# util requirements do not support multiple utils per statement no-default-for-required-parameter Documentation Error Option is marked as required but specifies a default. Arguments with a default should not be marked as required nonexistent-parameter-documented Documentation Error Argument is listed in DOCUMENTATION.options, but not accepted by the module option-incorrect-version-added Documentation Error ``version_added`` for new option is incorrect option-invalid-version-added Documentation Error ``version_added`` for new option is not a valid version number parameter-invalid Documentation Error Argument in argument_spec is not a valid python identifier parameter-invalid-elements Documentation Error Value for "elements" is valid only when value of "type" is ``list`` implied-parameter-type-mismatch Documentation Error Argument_spec implies ``type="str"`` but documentation defines it as different data type parameter-type-not-in-doc Documentation Error Type value is defined in ``argument_spec`` but documentation doesn't specify a type parameter-alias-repeated Parameters Error argument in argument_spec has at least one alias specified multiple times in aliases parameter-alias-self Parameters Error argument in argument_spec is specified as its own alias parameter-documented-multiple-times Documentation Error argument in argument_spec with aliases is documented multiple times parameter-list-no-elements Parameters Error argument in argument_spec "type" is specified as ``list`` without defining "elements" parameter-state-invalid-choice Parameters Error Argument ``state`` includes ``get``, ``list`` or ``info`` as a choice. Functionality should be in an ``_info`` or (if further conditions apply) ``_facts`` module. python-syntax-error Syntax Error Python ``SyntaxError`` while parsing module return-syntax-error Documentation Error ``RETURN`` is not valid YAML, ``RETURN`` fragments missing or invalid subdirectory-missing-init Naming Error Ansible module subdirectories must contain an ``__init__.py`` try-except-missing-has Imports Warning Try/Except ``HAS_`` expression missing undocumented-parameter Documentation Error Argument is listed in the argument_spec, but not documented in the module unidiomatic-typecheck Syntax Error Type comparison using ``type()`` found. Use ``isinstance()`` instead unknown-doc-fragment Documentation Warning Unknown pre-existing ``DOCUMENTATION`` error use-boto3 Imports Error ``boto`` import found, new modules should use ``boto3`` use-fail-json-not-sys-exit Imports Error ``sys.exit()`` call found. Should be ``exit_json``/``fail_json`` use-module-utils-urls Imports Error ``requests`` import found, should use ``ansible.module_utils.urls`` instead use-run-command-not-os-call Imports Error ``os.call`` used instead of ``module.run_command`` use-run-command-not-popen Imports Error ``subprocess.Popen`` used instead of ``module.run_command`` use-short-gplv3-license Documentation Error GPLv3 license header should be the :ref:`short form ` for new modules mutually_exclusive-type Documentation Error mutually_exclusive entry contains non-string value mutually_exclusive-collision Documentation Error mutually_exclusive entry has repeated terms mutually_exclusive-unknown Documentation Error mutually_exclusive entry contains option which does not appear in argument_spec (potentially an alias of an option?) required_one_of-type Documentation Error required_one_of entry contains non-string value required_one_of-collision Documentation Error required_one_of entry has repeated terms required_one_of-unknown Documentation Error required_one_of entry contains option which does not appear in argument_spec (potentially an alias of an option?) required_together-type Documentation Error required_together entry contains non-string value required_together-collision Documentation Error required_together entry has repeated terms required_together-unknown Documentation Error required_together entry contains option which does not appear in argument_spec (potentially an alias of an option?) required_if-is_one_of-type Documentation Error required_if entry has a fourth value which is not a bool required_if-requirements-type Documentation Error required_if entry has a third value (requirements) which is not a list or tuple required_if-requirements-collision Documentation Error required_if entry has repeated terms in requirements required_if-requirements-unknown Documentation Error required_if entry's requirements contains option which does not appear in argument_spec (potentially an alias of an option?) required_if-unknown-key Documentation Error required_if entry's key does not appear in argument_spec (potentially an alias of an option?) required_if-key-in-requirements Documentation Error required_if entry contains its key in requirements list/tuple required_if-value-type Documentation Error required_if entry's value is not of the type specified for its key required_by-collision Documentation Error required_by entry has repeated terms required_by-unknown Documentation Error required_by entry contains option which does not appear in argument_spec (potentially an alias of an option?) ============================================================ ================== ==================== =========================================================================================