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| author | Brian Coca <bcoca@users.noreply.github.com> | 2021-03-19 13:18:31 -0400 |
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| committer | GitHub <noreply@github.com> | 2021-03-19 13:18:31 -0400 |
| commit | 089d0a0508a470799d099d95fc371e66756a00b3 (patch) | |
| tree | f9bb0ebcd1312716b73acccc600e5c14296de2f9 /lib | |
| parent | 48c0fbd1cb92943b992b8a522e40ae6fe668e648 (diff) | |
| download | ansible-089d0a0508a470799d099d95fc371e66756a00b3.tar.gz | |
find - set proper default based on use_regex (#73961)
When using "use_regex: yes" and setting an excludes: without
specifying a pattern: the existing code passes the file-glob '*' to
the regex matcher. This results in an internal invalid-regex
exception being thrown.
This maintains the old semantics of a default match-all for pattern:
but switches the default to '.*' when use_regex is specified.
The code made sense as-is before excludes: was added (2.5). In that
case, it made no sense to set use_regex but *not* set a pattern.
However, with excludes: it now makes sense to only want to exclude a
given regex but not specify a specific matching pattern.
Closes: #50067
* moved change to new location
added changelog
* Update lib/ansible/modules/find.py
Co-authored-by: Ian Wienand <iwienand@redhat.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'lib')
| -rw-r--r-- | lib/ansible/modules/find.py | 15 |
1 files changed, 13 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/lib/ansible/modules/find.py b/lib/ansible/modules/find.py index 323d0223f2..7db5004ca3 100644 --- a/lib/ansible/modules/find.py +++ b/lib/ansible/modules/find.py @@ -29,7 +29,7 @@ options: first letter of any of those words (e.g., "1w"). type: str patterns: - default: '*' + default: [] description: - One or more (shell or regex) patterns, which type is controlled by C(use_regex) option. - The patterns restrict the list of files to be returned to those whose basenames match at @@ -41,6 +41,7 @@ options: - This parameter expects a list, which can be either comma separated or YAML. If any of the patterns contain a comma, make sure to put them in a list to avoid splitting the patterns in undesirable ways. + - Defaults to '*' when C(use_regex=False), or '.*' when C(use_regex=True). type: list aliases: [ pattern ] elements: str @@ -375,7 +376,7 @@ def main(): module = AnsibleModule( argument_spec=dict( paths=dict(type='list', required=True, aliases=['name', 'path'], elements='str'), - patterns=dict(type='list', default=['*'], aliases=['pattern'], elements='str'), + patterns=dict(type='list', default=[], aliases=['pattern'], elements='str'), excludes=dict(type='list', aliases=['exclude'], elements='str'), contains=dict(type='str'), read_whole_file=dict(type='bool', default=False), @@ -395,6 +396,16 @@ def main(): params = module.params + # Set the default match pattern to either a match-all glob or + # regex depending on use_regex being set. This makes sure if you + # set excludes: without a pattern pfilter gets something it can + # handle. + if not params['patterns']: + if params['use_regex']: + params['patterns'] = ['.*'] + else: + params['patterns'] = ['*'] + filelist = [] if params['age'] is None: |