Before:
$ ANSIBLE_STRATEGY=mitogen ansible -i derp, derp -m setup
An exception occurred during task execution. To see the full traceback, use -vvv. The error was: (''.join(bits)[-300:],)
derp | FAILED! => {
"msg": "Unexpected failure during module execution.",
"stdout": ""
}
After:
$ ANSIBLE_STRATEGY=mitogen ansible -i derp, derp -m setup
derp | UNREACHABLE! => {
"changed": false,
"msg": "EOF on stream; last 300 bytes received: 'ssh: Could not resolve hostname derp: nodename nor servname provided, or not known\\r\\n'",
"unreachable": true
}
* Use identical logic to select when stdout/stderr are merged, so
'stdout', 'stdout_lines', 'stderr', 'stderr_lines' contain the same
output before/after the extension.
* When stdout/stderr are merged, synthesize carriage returns just like
the TTY layer.
* Mimic the SSH connection multiplexing message on stderr. Not really
for user code, but so compare_output_test.sh needs fewer fixups.
Implement Connection.__del__, which is almost certainly going to trigger
more bugs down the line, because the state of the Connection instance is
not guranteed during __del__. Meanwhile, it is temporarily needed for
deployed-today Ansibles that have a buggy synchronize action that does
not call Connection.close().
A better approach to this would be to virtualize the guts of Connection,
and move its management to one central place where we can guarantee
resource destruction happens reliably, but that may entail another
Ansible monkey-patch to give us such a reliable hook.
Ansible's PluginLoader makes up bullshit when it imports a module
(mostly because it has to make up something), therefore we ended up with
duplicate copies of ansible_mitogen loaded: one under
ansible.plugins.*.mitogen, and one under the canonical namespace.
Which broke isinstance().
David Wilson