# (c) 2012, Daniel Hokka Zakrisson # (c) 2017 Ansible Project # GNU General Public License v3.0+ (see COPYING or https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-3.0.txt) from __future__ import (absolute_import, division, print_function) __metaclass__ = type DOCUMENTATION = """ name: file author: Daniel Hokka Zakrisson (!UNKNOWN) version_added: "0.9" short_description: read file contents description: - This lookup returns the contents from a file on the Ansible controller's file system. options: _terms: description: path(s) of files to read required: True rstrip: description: whether or not to remove whitespace from the ending of the looked-up file type: bool required: False default: True lstrip: description: whether or not to remove whitespace from the beginning of the looked-up file type: bool required: False default: False notes: - if read in variable context, the file can be interpreted as YAML if the content is valid to the parser. - this lookup does not understand 'globbing', use the fileglob lookup instead. """ EXAMPLES = """ - ansible.builtin.debug: msg: "the value of foo.txt is {{lookup('ansible.builtin.file', '/etc/foo.txt') }}" - name: display multiple file contents ansible.builtin.debug: var=item with_file: - "/path/to/foo.txt" - "bar.txt" # will be looked in files/ dir relative to play or in role - "/path/to/biz.txt" """ RETURN = """ _raw: description: - content of file(s) type: list elements: str """ from ansible.errors import AnsibleError, AnsibleParserError from ansible.plugins.lookup import LookupBase from ansible.module_utils._text import to_text from ansible.utils.display import Display display = Display() class LookupModule(LookupBase): def run(self, terms, variables=None, **kwargs): ret = [] self.set_options(var_options=variables, direct=kwargs) for term in terms: display.debug("File lookup term: %s" % term) # Find the file in the expected search path lookupfile = self.find_file_in_search_path(variables, 'files', term) display.vvvv(u"File lookup using %s as file" % lookupfile) try: if lookupfile: b_contents, show_data = self._loader._get_file_contents(lookupfile) contents = to_text(b_contents, errors='surrogate_or_strict') if self.get_option('lstrip'): contents = contents.lstrip() if self.get_option('rstrip'): contents = contents.rstrip() ret.append(contents) else: raise AnsibleParserError() except AnsibleParserError: raise AnsibleError("could not locate file in lookup: %s" % term) return ret