fixes to config/setting retrieval

- better variable precedence management
- universal plugin option handling
- also updated comments for future directions
- leverage fragments for plugins
- removed fact namespacing
- added 'firendly name' field
- updated missing descriptions
- removed some unused yaml entries, updated others to reflect possible future
- documented more plugins
- allow reading docs using alias
- short licenses
- corrected args for 'all plugins'
- fixed -a option for ansible-doc
- updated vars plugins to allow docs
- fixed 'gathering'
- only set options IF connection
- added path list and renamed pathspec mostly the diff is , vs : as separator
- readded removed config entries that were deprecated but had no message ... and deprecated again
- now deprecated entries give warning when set

1 files changed, 41 insertions, 15 deletions

diff --git a/lib/ansible/plugins/cache/memcached.py b/lib/ansible/plugins/cache/memcached.py
index 0b74895376..dca0b48066 100644
--- a/lib/ansible/plugins/cache/memcached.py
+++ b/lib/ansible/plugins/cache/memcached.py
@@ -1,19 +1,45 @@
 # (c) 2014, Brian Coca, Josh Drake, et al
-#
-# 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/>.
+# (c) 2017 Ansible Project
+# GNU General Public License v3.0+ (see COPYING or https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-3.0.txt)
+
+'''
+DOCUMENTATION:
+    cache: memcached
+    short_description: Use memcached DB for cache
+    description:
+        - This cache uses JSON formatted, per host records saved in memcached.
+    version_added: "1.9"
+    requirements:
+      - memcache (python lib)
+    options:
+      _uri:
+        description:
+          - List of connection information for the memcached DBs
+        default: ['127.0.0.1:11211']
+        type: list
+        env:
+          - name: ANSIBLE_CACHE_PLUGIN_CONNECTION
+        ini:
+          - key: fact_caching_connection
+            section: defaults
+      _prefix:
+        description: User defined prefix to use when creating the DB entries
+        env:
+          - name: ANSIBLE_CACHE_PLUGIN_PREFIX
+        ini:
+          - key: fact_caching_prefix
+          - section: defaults
+      _timeout:
+        default: 86400
+        description: Expiration timeout for the cache plugin data
+        env:
+          - name: ANSIBLE_CACHE_PLUGIN_TIMEOUT
+        ini:
+          - key: fact_caching_timeout
+            section: defaults
+        type: integer
+'''
+
 from __future__ import (absolute_import, division, print_function)
 __metaclass__ = type