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+# (c) 2014 Michael DeHaan, <michael@ansible.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/>.
+
+# Make coding more python3-ish
+from __future__ import (absolute_import, division, print_function)
+__metaclass__ = type
+
+from collections.abc import Iterable
+
+from ansible.module_utils.six import string_types
+from ansible.utils.display import Display
+
+display = Display()
+
+__all__ = ['listify_lookup_plugin_terms']
+
+
+def listify_lookup_plugin_terms(terms, templar, loader=None, fail_on_undefined=True, convert_bare=False):
+
+    if loader is not None:
+        display.deprecated('"listify_lookup_plugin_terms" does not use "dataloader" anymore, the ability to pass it in will be removed in future versions.',
+                           version='2.18')
+
+    if isinstance(terms, string_types):
+        terms = templar.template(terms.strip(), convert_bare=convert_bare, fail_on_undefined=fail_on_undefined)
+    else:
+        terms = templar.template(terms, fail_on_undefined=fail_on_undefined)
+
+    if isinstance(terms, string_types) or not isinstance(terms, Iterable):
+        terms = [terms]
+
+    return terms