#!/usr/bin/python # -*- coding: utf-8 -*- import os import os.path from subprocess import Popen, PIPE, call DOCUMENTATION = ''' --- module: locale_gen short_description: Creates of removes locales. description: - Manages locales by editing /etc/locale.gen and invoking locale-gen. version_added: "1.6" options: name: description: - Name and encoding of the locale, such as "en_GB.UTF-8". required: true default: null aliases: [] state: description: - Whether the locale shall be present. required: false choices: ["present", "absent"] default: "present" ''' EXAMPLES = ''' # Ensure a locale exists. - locale_gen: name=de_CH.UTF-8 state=present ''' # =========================================== # location module specific support methods. # def is_present(name): """Checks if the given locale is currently installed.""" output = Popen(["locale", "-a"], stdout=PIPE).communicate()[0] return any(fix_case(name) == fix_case(line) for line in output.splitlines()) def fix_case(name): """locale -a might return the encoding in either lower or upper case. Passing through this function makes them uniform for comparisons.""" return name.replace(".utf8", ".UTF-8") def replace_line(existing_line, new_line): """Replaces lines in /etc/locale.gen""" with open("/etc/locale.gen", "r") as f: lines = [line.replace(existing_line, new_line) for line in f] with open("/etc/locale.gen", "w") as f: f.write("".join(lines)) def apply_change(targetState, name, encoding): """Create or remove locale. Keyword arguments: targetState -- Desired state, eiter present or absent. name -- Name including encoding such as de_CH.UTF-8. encoding -- Encoding such as UTF-8. """ if targetState=="present": # Create locale. replace_line("# "+name+" "+encoding, name+" "+encoding) else: # Delete locale. replace_line(name+" "+encoding, "# "+name+" "+encoding) localeGenExitValue = call("locale-gen") if localeGenExitValue!=0: raise EnvironmentError(localeGenExitValue, "locale.gen failed to execute, it returned "+str(localeGenExitValue)) def apply_change_ubuntu(targetState, name, encoding): """Create or remove locale. Keyword arguments: targetState -- Desired state, eiter present or absent. name -- Name including encoding such as de_CH.UTF-8. encoding -- Encoding such as UTF-8. """ if targetState=="present": # Create locale. # Ubuntu's patched locale-gen automatically adds the new locale to /var/lib/locales/supported.d/local localeGenExitValue = call(["locale-gen", name]) else: # Delete locale involves discarding the locale from /var/lib/locales/supported.d/local and regenerating all locales. with open("/var/lib/locales/supported.d/local", "r") as f: content = f.readlines() with open("/var/lib/locales/supported.d/local", "w") as f: for line in content: if line!=(name+" "+encoding+"\n"): f.write(line) # Purge locales and regenerate. # Please provide a patch if you know how to avoid regenerating the locales to keep! localeGenExitValue = call(["locale-gen", "--purge"]) if localeGenExitValue!=0: raise EnvironmentError(localeGenExitValue, "locale.gen failed to execute, it returned "+str(localeGenExitValue)) # ============================================================== # main def main(): module = AnsibleModule( argument_spec = dict( name = dict(required=True), state = dict(choices=['present','absent'], required=True), ), supports_check_mode=True ) name = module.params['name'] if not "." in name: module.fail_json(msg="Locale does not match pattern. Did you specify the encoding?") state = module.params['state'] if not os.path.exists("/etc/locale.gen"): if os.path.exists("/var/lib/locales/supported.d/local"): # Ubuntu created its own system to manage locales. ubuntuMode = True else: module.fail_json(msg="/etc/locale.gen and /var/lib/locales/supported.d/local are missing. Is the package “locales” installed?") else: # We found the common way to manage locales. ubuntuMode = False prev_state = "present" if is_present(name) else "absent" changed = (prev_state!=state) if module.check_mode: module.exit_json(changed=changed) else: encoding = name.split(".")[1] if changed: try: if ubuntuMode==False: apply_change(state, name, encoding) else: apply_change_ubuntu(state, name, encoding) except EnvironmentError as e: module.fail_json(msg=e.strerror, exitValue=e.errno) module.exit_json(name=name, changed=changed, msg="OK") # import module snippets from ansible.module_utils.basic import * main()