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+# (c) 2012-2014, Michael DeHaan <michael.dehaan@gmail.com>
+# (c) 2012, Dag Wieers <dag@wieers.com>
+#
+# This file is part of Ansible
+#
+# Ansible is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
+# it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
+# the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
+# (at your option) any later version.
+#
+# Ansible is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
+# but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
+# MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
+# GNU General Public License for more details.
+#
+# You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
+# along with Ansible.  If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
+from __future__ import (absolute_import, division, print_function)
+__metaclass__ = type
+
+from ansible.plugins.action import ActionBase
+
+
+class ActionModule(ActionBase):
+    ''' Fail with custom message '''
+
+    TRANSFERS_FILES = False
+    _VALID_ARGS = frozenset(('msg',))
+
+    def run(self, tmp=None, task_vars=None):
+        if task_vars is None:
+            task_vars = dict()
+
+        result = super(ActionModule, self).run(tmp, task_vars)
+        del tmp  # tmp no longer has any effect
+
+        msg = 'Failed as requested from task'
+        if self._task.args and 'msg' in self._task.args:
+            msg = self._task.args.get('msg')
+
+        result['failed'] = True
+        result['msg'] = msg
+        return result