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# (c) 2012-2014, Michael DeHaan <michael.dehaan@gmail.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

import base64
import json
import os
import random
import re
import stat
import tempfile
import time
from abc import ABCMeta, abstractmethod

from ansible import constants as C
from ansible.compat.six import binary_type, string_types, text_type, iteritems, with_metaclass
from ansible.compat.six.moves import shlex_quote
from ansible.errors import AnsibleError, AnsibleConnectionFailure, AnsibleActionSkip, AnsibleActionFail
from ansible.executor.module_common import modify_module
from ansible.module_utils._text import to_bytes, to_native, to_text
from ansible.module_utils.json_utils import _filter_non_json_lines
from ansible.parsing.utils.jsonify import jsonify
from ansible.playbook.play_context import MAGIC_VARIABLE_MAPPING
from ansible.release import __version__
from ansible.vars.unsafe_proxy import wrap_var


try:
    from __main__ import display
except ImportError:
    from ansible.utils.display import Display
    display = Display()


class ActionBase(with_metaclass(ABCMeta, object)):

    '''
    This class is the base class for all action plugins, and defines
    code common to all actions. The base class handles the connection
    by putting/getting files and executing commands based on the current
    action in use.
    '''

    def __init__(self, task, connection, play_context, loader, templar, shared_loader_obj):
        self._task              = task
        self._connection        = connection
        self._play_context      = play_context
        self._loader            = loader
        self._templar           = templar
        self._shared_loader_obj = shared_loader_obj
        # Backwards compat: self._display isn't really needed, just import the global display and use that.
        self._display           = display
        self._cleanup_remote_tmp  = False

        self._supports_check_mode = True
        self._supports_async      = False

    @abstractmethod
    def run(self, tmp=None, task_vars=None):
        """ Action Plugins should implement this method to perform their
        tasks.  Everything else in this base class is a helper method for the
        action plugin to do that.

        :kwarg tmp: Temporary directory.  Sometimes an action plugin sets up
            a temporary directory and then calls another module.  This parameter
            allows us to reuse the same directory for both.
        :kwarg task_vars: The variables (host vars, group vars, config vars,
            etc) associated with this task.
        :returns: dictionary of results from the module

        Implementors of action modules may find the following variables especially useful:

        * Module parameters.  These are stored in self._task.args
        """

        result = {}

        if self._task.async and not self._supports_async:
            raise AnsibleActionFail('async is not supported for this task.')
        elif self._play_context.check_mode and not self._supports_check_mode:
            raise AnsibleActionSkip('check mode is not supported for this task.')
        elif self._task.async and self._play_context.check_mode:
            raise AnsibleActionFail('check mode and async cannot be used on same task.')

        return result

    def _remote_file_exists(self, path):
        cmd = self._connection._shell.exists(path)
        result = self._low_level_execute_command(cmd=cmd, sudoable=True)
        if result['rc'] == 0:
            return True
        return False

    def _configure_module(self, module_name, module_args, task_vars=None):
        '''
        Handles the loading and templating of the module code through the
        modify_module() function.
        '''
        if task_vars is None:
            task_vars = dict()

        # Search module path(s) for named module.
        for mod_type in self._connection.module_implementation_preferences:
            # Check to determine if PowerShell modules are supported, and apply
            # some fixes (hacks) to module name + args.
            if mod_type == '.ps1':
                # win_stat, win_file, and win_copy are not just like their
                # python counterparts but they are compatible enough for our
                # internal usage
                if module_name in ('stat', 'file', 'copy') and self._task.action != module_name:
                    module_name = 'win_%s' % module_name

                # Remove extra quotes surrounding path parameters before sending to module.
                if module_name in ('win_stat', 'win_file', 'win_copy', 'slurp') and module_args and hasattr(self._connection._shell, '_unquote'):
                    for key in ('src', 'dest', 'path'):
                        if key in module_args:
                            module_args[key] = self._connection._shell._unquote(module_args[key])

            module_path = self._shared_loader_obj.module_loader.find_plugin(module_name, mod_type)
            if module_path:
                break
        else:  # This is a for-else: http://bit.ly/1ElPkyg
            # Use Windows version of ping module to check module paths when
            # using a connection that supports .ps1 suffixes. We check specifically
            # for win_ping here, otherwise the code would look for ping.ps1
            if '.ps1' in self._connection.module_implementation_preferences:
                ping_module = 'win_ping'
            else:
                ping_module = 'ping'
            module_path2 = self._shared_loader_obj.module_loader.find_plugin(ping_module, self._connection.module_implementation_preferences)
            if module_path2 is not None:
                raise AnsibleError("The module %s was not found in configured module paths" % (module_name))
            else:
                raise AnsibleError("The module %s was not found in configured module paths. "
                                   "Additionally, core modules are missing. If this is a checkout, "
                                   "run 'git pull --rebase' to correct this problem." % (module_name))

        # insert shared code and arguments into the module
        final_environment = dict()
        self._compute_environment_string(final_environment)

        (module_data, module_style, module_shebang) = modify_module(module_name, module_path, module_args,
                                                                    task_vars=task_vars, module_compression=self._play_context.module_compression,
                                                                    async_timeout=self._task.async, become=self._play_context.become,
                                                                    become_method=self._play_context.become_method, become_user=self._play_context.become_user,
                                                                    become_password=self._play_context.become_pass,
                                                                    environment=final_environment)

        return (module_style, module_shebang, module_data, module_path)

    def _compute_environment_string(self, raw_environment_out=dict()):
        '''
        Builds the environment string to be used when executing the remote task.
        '''

        final_environment = dict()
        if self._task.environment is not None:
            environments = self._task.environment
            if not isinstance(environments, list):
                environments = [ environments ]

            # The order of environments matters to make sure we merge
            # in the parent's values first so those in the block then
            # task 'win' in precedence
            for environment in environments:
                if environment is None or len(environment) == 0:
                    continue
                temp_environment = self._templar.template(environment)
                if not isinstance(temp_environment, dict):
                    raise AnsibleError("environment must be a dictionary, received %s (%s)" % (temp_environment, type(temp_environment)))
                # very deliberately using update here instead of combine_vars, as
                # these environment settings should not need to merge sub-dicts
                final_environment.update(temp_environment)

        if len(final_environment) > 0:
            final_environment = self._templar.template(final_environment)

        if isinstance(raw_environment_out, dict):
            raw_environment_out.clear()
            raw_environment_out.update(final_environment)

        return self._connection._shell.env_prefix(**final_environment)

    def _early_needs_tmp_path(self):
        '''
        Determines if a temp path should be created before the action is executed.
        '''

        return getattr(self, 'TRANSFERS_FILES', False)

    def _is_pipelining_enabled(self, module_style, wrap_async=False):
        '''
        Determines if we are required and can do pipelining
        '''

        # any of these require a true
        for condition in [
              self._connection.has_pipelining,
              self._play_context.pipelining or self._connection.always_pipeline_modules,  # pipelining enabled for play or connection requires it (eg winrm)
              module_style == "new",                     # old style modules do not support pipelining
              not C.DEFAULT_KEEP_REMOTE_FILES,           # user wants remote files
              not wrap_async,                            # async does not support pipelining
              self._play_context.become_method != 'su',  # su does not work with pipelining,
              # FIXME: we might need to make become_method exclusion a configurable list
            ]:
            if not condition:
                return False

        return True

    def _make_tmp_path(self, remote_user=None):
        '''
        Create and return a temporary path on a remote box.
        '''

        if remote_user is None:
            remote_user = self._play_context.remote_user

        basefile = 'ansible-tmp-%s-%s' % (time.time(), random.randint(0, 2**48))
        use_system_tmp = False

        if self._play_context.become and self._play_context.become_user not in ('root', remote_user):
            use_system_tmp = True

        tmp_mode = 0o700

        if use_system_tmp:
            tmpdir = None
        else:
            tmpdir =  self._remote_expand_user(C.DEFAULT_REMOTE_TMP, sudoable=False)

        cmd = self._connection._shell.mkdtemp(basefile, use_system_tmp, tmp_mode, tmpdir)
        result = self._low_level_execute_command(cmd, sudoable=False)

        # error handling on this seems a little aggressive?
        if result['rc'] != 0:
            if result['rc'] == 5:
                output = 'Authentication failure.'
            elif result['rc'] == 255 and self._connection.transport in ('ssh',):

                if self._play_context.verbosity > 3:
                    output = u'SSH encountered an unknown error. The output was:\n%s%s' % (result['stdout'], result['stderr'])
                else:
                    output = (u'SSH encountered an unknown error during the connection.'
                            ' We recommend you re-run the command using -vvvv, which will enable SSH debugging output to help diagnose the issue')

            elif u'No space left on device' in result['stderr']:
                output = result['stderr']
            else:
                output = ('Authentication or permission failure.'
                        ' In some cases, you may have been able to authenticate and did not have permissions on the remote directory.'
                        ' Consider changing the remote temp path in ansible.cfg to a path rooted in "/tmp".'
                        ' Failed command was: %s, exited with result %d' % (cmd, result['rc']))
            if 'stdout' in result and result['stdout'] != u'':
                output = output + u": %s" % result['stdout']
            raise AnsibleConnectionFailure(output)
        else:
            self._cleanup_remote_tmp = True

        try:
            stdout_parts = result['stdout'].strip().split('%s=' % basefile, 1)
            rc = self._connection._shell.join_path(stdout_parts[-1], u'').splitlines()[-1]
        except IndexError:
            # stdout was empty or just space, set to / to trigger error in next if
            rc = '/'

        # Catch failure conditions, files should never be
        # written to locations in /.
        if rc == '/':
            raise AnsibleError('failed to resolve remote temporary directory from %s: `%s` returned empty string' % (basefile, cmd))

        return rc

    def _should_remove_tmp_path(self, tmp_path):
        '''Determine if temporary path should be deleted or kept by user request/config'''

        return tmp_path and self._cleanup_remote_tmp and not C.DEFAULT_KEEP_REMOTE_FILES and "-tmp-" in tmp_path

    def _remove_tmp_path(self, tmp_path):
        '''Remove a temporary path we created. '''

        if self._should_remove_tmp_path(tmp_path):
            cmd = self._connection._shell.remove(tmp_path, recurse=True)
            # If we have gotten here we have a working ssh configuration.
            # If ssh breaks we could leave tmp directories out on the remote system.
            tmp_rm_res = self._low_level_execute_command(cmd, sudoable=False)

            tmp_rm_data = self._parse_returned_data(tmp_rm_res)
            if tmp_rm_data.get('rc', 0) != 0:
                display.warning('Error deleting remote temporary files (rc: {0}, stderr: {1})'.format(tmp_rm_res.get('rc'),
                    tmp_rm_res.get('stderr', 'No error string available.')))

    def _transfer_file(self, local_path, remote_path):
        self._connection.put_file(local_path, remote_path)
        return remote_path

    def _transfer_data(self, remote_path, data):
        '''
        Copies the module data out to the temporary module path.
        '''

        if isinstance(data, dict):
            data = jsonify(data)

        afd, afile = tempfile.mkstemp()
        afo = os.fdopen(afd, 'wb')
        try:
            data = to_bytes(data, errors='surrogate_or_strict')
            afo.write(data)
        except Exception as e:
            raise AnsibleError("failure writing module data to temporary file for transfer: %s" % to_native(e))

        afo.flush()
        afo.close()

        try:
            self._transfer_file(afile, remote_path)
        finally:
            os.unlink(afile)

        return remote_path

    def _fixup_perms(self, remote_path, remote_user=None, execute=True, recursive=True):
        """
        We need the files we upload to be readable (and sometimes executable)
        by the user being sudo'd to but we want to limit other people's access
        (because the files could contain passwords or other private
        information.

        Deprecated in favor of _fixup_perms2. Ansible code has been updated to
        use _fixup_perms2. This code is maintained to provide partial support
        for custom actions (non-recursive mode only).

        """
        if remote_user is None:
            remote_user = self._play_context.remote_user

        display.deprecated('_fixup_perms is deprecated. Use _fixup_perms2 instead.', version='2.4', removed=False)

        if recursive:
            raise AnsibleError('_fixup_perms with recursive=True (the default) is no longer supported. ' +
                               'Use _fixup_perms2 if support for previous releases is not required. '
                               'Otherwise use fixup_perms with recursive=False.')

        return self._fixup_perms2([remote_path], remote_user, execute)

    def _fixup_perms2(self, remote_paths, remote_user=None, execute=True):
        """
        We need the files we upload to be readable (and sometimes executable)
        by the user being sudo'd to but we want to limit other people's access
        (because the files could contain passwords or other private
        information.  We achieve this in one of these ways:

        * If no sudo is performed or the remote_user is sudo'ing to
          themselves, we don't have to change permissions.
        * If the remote_user sudo's to a privileged user (for instance, root),
          we don't have to change permissions
        * If the remote_user sudo's to an unprivileged user then we attempt to
          grant the unprivileged user access via file system acls.
        * If granting file system acls fails we try to change the owner of the
          file with chown which only works in case the remote_user is
          privileged or the remote systems allows chown calls by unprivileged
          users (e.g. HP-UX)
        * If the chown fails we can set the file to be world readable so that
          the second unprivileged user can read the file.
          Since this could allow other users to get access to private
          information we only do this ansible is configured with
          "allow_world_readable_tmpfiles" in the ansible.cfg
        """
        if remote_user is None:
            remote_user = self._play_context.remote_user

        if self._connection._shell.SHELL_FAMILY == 'powershell':
            # This won't work on Powershell as-is, so we'll just completely skip until
            # we have a need for it, at which point we'll have to do something different.
            return remote_paths

        if self._play_context.become and self._play_context.become_user not in ('root', remote_user):
            # Unprivileged user that's different than the ssh user.  Let's get
            # to work!

            # Try to use file system acls to make the files readable for sudo'd
            # user
            if execute:
                chmod_mode = 'rx'
                setfacl_mode = 'r-x'
            else:
                chmod_mode = 'rX'
                ### Note: this form fails silently on freebsd.  We currently
                # never call _fixup_perms2() with execute=False but if we
                # start to we'll have to fix this.
                setfacl_mode = 'r-X'

            res = self._remote_set_user_facl(remote_paths, self._play_context.become_user, setfacl_mode)
            if res['rc'] != 0:
                # File system acls failed; let's try to use chown next
                # Set executable bit first as on some systems an
                # unprivileged user can use chown
                if execute:
                    res = self._remote_chmod(remote_paths, 'u+x')
                    if res['rc'] != 0:
                        raise AnsibleError('Failed to set file mode on remote temporary files (rc: {0}, err: {1})'.format(res['rc'], to_native(res['stderr'])))

                res = self._remote_chown(remote_paths, self._play_context.become_user)
                if res['rc'] != 0 and remote_user == 'root':
                    # chown failed even if remove_user is root
                    raise AnsibleError('Failed to change ownership of the temporary files Ansible needs to create despite connecting as root.'
                            '  Unprivileged become user would be unable to read the file.')
                elif res['rc'] != 0:
                    if C.ALLOW_WORLD_READABLE_TMPFILES:
                        # chown and fs acls failed -- do things this insecure
                        # way only if the user opted in in the config file
                        display.warning('Using world-readable permissions for temporary files Ansible needs to create when becoming an unprivileged user.'
                                ' This may be insecure. For information on securing this, see'
                                ' https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/become.html#becoming-an-unprivileged-user')
                        res = self._remote_chmod(remote_paths, 'a+%s' % chmod_mode)
                        if res['rc'] != 0:
                            raise AnsibleError('Failed to set file mode on remote files (rc: {0}, err: {1})'.format(res['rc'], to_native(res['stderr'])))
                    else:
                        raise AnsibleError('Failed to set permissions on the temporary files Ansible needs to create when becoming an unprivileged user'
                                ' (rc: {0}, err: {1}). For information on working around this,'
                                ' see https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/become.html#becoming-an-unprivileged-user'.format(res['rc'], to_native(res['stderr'])))
        elif execute:
            # Can't depend on the file being transferred with execute permissions.
            # Only need user perms because no become was used here
            res = self._remote_chmod(remote_paths, 'u+x')
            if res['rc'] != 0:
                raise AnsibleError('Failed to set execute bit on remote files (rc: {0}, err: {1})'.format(res['rc'], to_native(res['stderr'])))

        return remote_paths

    def _remote_chmod(self, paths, mode, sudoable=False):
        '''
        Issue a remote chmod command
        '''
        cmd = self._connection._shell.chmod(paths, mode)
        res = self._low_level_execute_command(cmd, sudoable=sudoable)
        return res

    def _remote_chown(self, paths, user, sudoable=False):
        '''
        Issue a remote chown command
        '''
        cmd = self._connection._shell.chown(paths, user)
        res = self._low_level_execute_command(cmd, sudoable=sudoable)
        return res

    def _remote_set_user_facl(self, paths, user, mode, sudoable=False):
        '''
        Issue a remote call to setfacl
        '''
        cmd = self._connection._shell.set_user_facl(paths, user, mode)
        res = self._low_level_execute_command(cmd, sudoable=sudoable)
        return res

    def _execute_remote_stat(self, path, all_vars, follow, tmp=None, checksum=True):
        '''
        Get information from remote file.
        '''
        module_args=dict(
            path=path,
            follow=follow,
            get_md5=False,
            get_checksum=checksum,
            checksum_algo='sha1',
        )
        mystat = self._execute_module(module_name='stat', module_args=module_args, task_vars=all_vars, tmp=tmp, delete_remote_tmp=(tmp is None), wrap_async=False)

        if mystat.get('failed'):
            msg = mystat.get('module_stderr')
            if not msg:
                msg = mystat.get('module_stdout')
            if not msg:
                msg = mystat.get('msg')
            raise AnsibleError('Failed to get information on remote file (%s): %s' % (path, msg))

        if not mystat['stat']['exists']:
            # empty might be matched, 1 should never match, also backwards compatible
            mystat['stat']['checksum'] = '1'

        # happens sometimes when it is a dir and not on bsd
        if 'checksum' not in mystat['stat']:
            mystat['stat']['checksum'] = ''
        elif not isinstance(mystat['stat']['checksum'], string_types):
            raise AnsibleError("Invalid checksum returned by stat: expected a string type but got %s" % type(mystat['stat']['checksum']))

        return mystat['stat']

    def _remote_checksum(self, path, all_vars, follow=False):
        '''
        Produces a remote checksum given a path,
        Returns a number 0-4 for specific errors instead of checksum, also ensures it is different
        0 = unknown error
        1 = file does not exist, this might not be an error
        2 = permissions issue
        3 = its a directory, not a file
        4 = stat module failed, likely due to not finding python
        '''
        x = "0"  # unknown error has occurred
        try:
            remote_stat = self._execute_remote_stat(path, all_vars, follow=follow)
            if remote_stat['exists'] and remote_stat['isdir']:
                x = "3"  # its a directory not a file
            else:
                x = remote_stat['checksum']  # if 1, file is missing
        except AnsibleError as e:
            errormsg = to_text(e)
            if errormsg.endswith(u'Permission denied'):
                x = "2"  # cannot read file
            elif errormsg.endswith(u'MODULE FAILURE'):
                x = "4"  # python not found or module uncaught exception
        finally:
            return x

    def _remote_expand_user(self, path, sudoable=True):
        ''' takes a remote path and performs tilde expansion on the remote host '''
        if not path.startswith('~'):  # FIXME: Windows paths may start with "~ instead of just ~
            return path

        # FIXME: Can't use os.path.sep for Windows paths.
        split_path = path.split(os.path.sep, 1)
        expand_path = split_path[0]
        if sudoable and expand_path == '~' and self._play_context.become and self._play_context.become_user:
            expand_path = '~%s' % self._play_context.become_user

        cmd = self._connection._shell.expand_user(expand_path)
        data = self._low_level_execute_command(cmd, sudoable=False)
        try:
            initial_fragment = data['stdout'].strip().splitlines()[-1]
        except IndexError:
            initial_fragment = None

        if not initial_fragment:
            # Something went wrong trying to expand the path remotely.  Return
            # the original string
            return path

        if len(split_path) > 1:
            return self._connection._shell.join_path(initial_fragment, *split_path[1:])
        else:
            return initial_fragment

    def _strip_success_message(self, data):
        '''
        Removes the BECOME-SUCCESS message from the data.
        '''
        if data.strip().startswith('BECOME-SUCCESS-'):
            data = re.sub(r'^((\r)?\n)?BECOME-SUCCESS.*(\r)?\n', '', data)
        return data

    def _update_module_args(self, module_name, module_args, task_vars):

        # set check mode in the module arguments, if required
        if self._play_context.check_mode:
            if not self._supports_check_mode:
                raise AnsibleError("check mode is not supported for this operation")
            module_args['_ansible_check_mode'] = True
        else:
            module_args['_ansible_check_mode'] = False

        # set no log in the module arguments, if required
        module_args['_ansible_no_log'] = self._play_context.no_log or C.DEFAULT_NO_TARGET_SYSLOG

        # set debug in the module arguments, if required
        module_args['_ansible_debug'] = C.DEFAULT_DEBUG

        # let module know we are in diff mode
        module_args['_ansible_diff'] = self._play_context.diff

        # let module know our verbosity
        module_args['_ansible_verbosity'] = display.verbosity

        # give the module information about the ansible version
        module_args['_ansible_version'] = __version__

        # give the module information about its name
        module_args['_ansible_module_name'] = module_name

        # set the syslog facility to be used in the module
        module_args['_ansible_syslog_facility'] = task_vars.get('ansible_syslog_facility', C.DEFAULT_SYSLOG_FACILITY)

        # let module know about filesystems that selinux treats specially
        module_args['_ansible_selinux_special_fs'] = C.DEFAULT_SELINUX_SPECIAL_FS

        # give the module the socket for persistent connections
        module_args['_ansible_socket'] = task_vars.get('ansible_socket')



    def _execute_module(self, module_name=None, module_args=None, tmp=None, task_vars=None, persist_files=False, delete_remote_tmp=True, wrap_async=False):
        '''
        Transfer and run a module along with its arguments.
        '''
        if task_vars is None:
            task_vars = dict()

        remote_module_path = None
        args_file_path = None
        remote_files = []

        # if a module name was not specified for this execution, use the action from the task
        if module_name is None:
            module_name = self._task.action
        if module_args is None:
            module_args = self._task.args

        self._update_module_args(module_name, module_args, task_vars)

        # FUTURE: refactor this along with module build process to better encapsulate "smart wrapper" functionality
        (module_style, shebang, module_data, module_path) = self._configure_module(module_name=module_name, module_args=module_args, task_vars=task_vars)
        display.vvv("Using module file %s" % module_path)
        if not shebang and module_style != 'binary':
            raise AnsibleError("module (%s) is missing interpreter line" % module_name)

        if not self._is_pipelining_enabled(module_style, wrap_async):

            # we might need remote tmp dir
            if not tmp or not 'tmp' in tmp:
                tmp = self._make_tmp_path()

            remote_module_filename = self._connection._shell.get_remote_filename(module_path)
            remote_module_path = self._connection._shell.join_path(tmp, remote_module_filename)

        if module_style in ('old', 'non_native_want_json', 'binary'):
            # we'll also need a temp file to hold our module arguments
            args_file_path = self._connection._shell.join_path(tmp, 'args')

        if remote_module_path or module_style != 'new':
            display.debug("transferring module to remote %s" % remote_module_path)
            if module_style == 'binary':
                self._transfer_file(module_path, remote_module_path)
            else:
                self._transfer_data(remote_module_path, module_data)
            if module_style == 'old':
                # we need to dump the module args to a k=v string in a file on
                # the remote system, which can be read and parsed by the module
                args_data = ""
                for k,v in iteritems(module_args):
                    args_data += '%s=%s ' % (k, shlex_quote(text_type(v)))
                self._transfer_data(args_file_path, args_data)
            elif module_style in ('non_native_want_json', 'binary'):
                self._transfer_data(args_file_path, json.dumps(module_args))
            display.debug("done transferring module to remote")

        environment_string = self._compute_environment_string()

        if tmp and remote_module_path:
            remote_files = [tmp, remote_module_path]

        if args_file_path:
            remote_files.append(args_file_path)

        sudoable = True
        in_data = None
        cmd = ""

        if wrap_async:
            # configure, upload, and chmod the async_wrapper module
            (async_module_style, shebang, async_module_data, async_module_path) = self._configure_module(module_name='async_wrapper', module_args=dict(), task_vars=task_vars)
            async_module_remote_filename = self._connection._shell.get_remote_filename(async_module_path)
            remote_async_module_path = self._connection._shell.join_path(tmp, async_module_remote_filename)
            self._transfer_data(remote_async_module_path, async_module_data)
            remote_files.append(remote_async_module_path)

            async_limit = self._task.async
            async_jid   = str(random.randint(0, 999999999999))

            # call the interpreter for async_wrapper directly
            # this permits use of a script for an interpreter on non-Linux platforms
            # TODO: re-implement async_wrapper as a regular module to avoid this special case
            interpreter = shebang.replace('#!', '').strip()
            async_cmd = [interpreter, remote_async_module_path, async_jid, async_limit, remote_module_path]

            if environment_string:
                async_cmd.insert(0, environment_string)

            if args_file_path:
                async_cmd.append(args_file_path)
            else:
                # maintain a fixed number of positional parameters for async_wrapper
                async_cmd.append('_')

            if not self._should_remove_tmp_path(tmp):
                async_cmd.append("-preserve_tmp")

            cmd= " ".join(to_text(x) for x in async_cmd)

        else:

            if self._is_pipelining_enabled(module_style):
                in_data = module_data
            else:
                cmd = remote_module_path

            rm_tmp = None

            if self._should_remove_tmp_path(tmp) and not persist_files and delete_remote_tmp:
                if not self._play_context.become or self._play_context.become_user == 'root':
                    # not sudoing or sudoing to root, so can cleanup files in the same step
                    rm_tmp = tmp

            cmd = self._connection._shell.build_module_command(environment_string, shebang, cmd, arg_path=args_file_path, rm_tmp=rm_tmp).strip()

            if module_name == "accelerate":
                # always run the accelerate module as the user
                # specified in the play, not the sudo_user
                sudoable = False

        # Fix permissions of the tmp path and tmp files. This should be called after all files have been transferred.
        if remote_files:
            # remove none/empty
            remote_files = [ x for x in remote_files if x]
            self._fixup_perms2(remote_files, self._play_context.remote_user)

        # actually execute
        res = self._low_level_execute_command(cmd, sudoable=sudoable, in_data=in_data)

        # parse the main result, also cleans up internal keys
        data = self._parse_returned_data(res)

        #NOTE: INTERNAL KEYS ONLY ACCESSIBLE HERE
        # get internal info before cleaning
        tmpdir_delete = (not data.pop("_ansible_suppress_tmpdir_delete", False) and wrap_async)

        # remove internal keys
        self._remove_internal_keys(data)

        # cleanup tmp?
        if (self._play_context.become and self._play_context.become_user != 'root') and not persist_files and delete_remote_tmp or tmpdir_delete:
            self._remove_tmp_path(tmp)

        #FIXME: for backwards compat, figure out if still makes sense
        if wrap_async:
            data['changed'] = True

        # pre-split stdout/stderr into lines if needed
        if 'stdout' in data and 'stdout_lines' not in data:
            # if the value is 'False', a default won't catch it.
            txt = data.get('stdout', None) or u''
            data['stdout_lines'] = txt.splitlines()
        if 'stderr' in data and 'stderr_lines' not in data:
            # if the value is 'False', a default won't catch it.
            txt = data.get('stderr', None) or u''
            data['stderr_lines'] = txt.splitlines()

        display.debug("done with _execute_module (%s, %s)" % (module_name, module_args))
        return data

    def _remove_internal_keys(self, data):
        for key in list(data.keys()):
            if key.startswith('_ansible_') and key != '_ansible_parsed' or key in C.INTERNAL_RESULT_KEYS:
                display.warning("Removed unexpected internal key in module return: %s = %s" % (key, data[key]))
                del data[key]

        # remove bad/empty internal keys
        for key in ['warnings', 'deprecations']:
            if key in data and not data[key]:
                del data[key]


    def _clean_returned_data(self, data):
        remove_keys = set()
        fact_keys = set(data.keys())
        # first we add all of our magic variable names to the set of
        # keys we want to remove from facts
        for magic_var in MAGIC_VARIABLE_MAPPING:
            remove_keys.update(fact_keys.intersection(MAGIC_VARIABLE_MAPPING[magic_var]))
        # next we remove any connection plugin specific vars
        for conn_path in self._shared_loader_obj.connection_loader.all(path_only=True):
            try:
                conn_name = os.path.splitext(os.path.basename(conn_path))[0]
                re_key = re.compile('^ansible_%s_' % conn_name)
                for fact_key in fact_keys:
                    # exception for lvm tech, whic normally returns asnible_x_bridge facts that get filterd out (docker,lxc, etc)
                    if re_key.match(fact_key) and not fact_key.endswith(('_bridge', '_gwbridge')):
                        remove_keys.add(fact_key)
            except AttributeError:
                pass

        # remove some KNOWN keys
        for hard in C.RESTRICTED_RESULT_KEYS + C.INTERNAL_RESULT_KEYS:
            if hard in fact_keys:
                remove_keys.add(hard)

        # finally, we search for interpreter keys to remove
        re_interp = re.compile('^ansible_.*_interpreter$')
        for fact_key in fact_keys:
            if re_interp.match(fact_key):
                remove_keys.add(fact_key)
        # then we remove them (except for ssh host keys)
        for r_key in remove_keys:
            if not r_key.startswith('ansible_ssh_host_key_'):
                display.warning("Removed restricted key from module data: %s = %s" % (r_key, data[r_key]))
                del data[r_key]

        self._remove_internal_keys(data)

    def _parse_returned_data(self, res):
        try:
            filtered_output, warnings = _filter_non_json_lines(res.get('stdout', u''))
            for w in warnings:
                display.warning(w)

            data = json.loads(filtered_output)

            if 'ansible_facts' in data and isinstance(data['ansible_facts'], dict):
                self._clean_returned_data(data['ansible_facts'])
                data['ansible_facts'] = wrap_var(data['ansible_facts'])
            data['_ansible_parsed'] = True
        except ValueError:
            # not valid json, lets try to capture error
            data = dict(failed=True, _ansible_parsed=False)
            data['msg'] = "MODULE FAILURE"
            data['module_stdout'] = res.get('stdout', u'')
            if 'stderr' in res:
                data['module_stderr'] = res['stderr']
                if res['stderr'].startswith(u'Traceback'):
                    data['exception'] = res['stderr']
            if 'rc' in res:
                data['rc'] = res['rc']
        return data

    def _low_level_execute_command(self, cmd, sudoable=True, in_data=None, executable=None, encoding_errors='surrogate_then_replace'):
        '''
        This is the function which executes the low level shell command, which
        may be commands to create/remove directories for temporary files, or to
        run the module code or python directly when pipelining.

        :kwarg encoding_errors: If the value returned by the command isn't
            utf-8 then we have to figure out how to transform it to unicode.
            If the value is just going to be displayed to the user (or
            discarded) then the default of 'replace' is fine.  If the data is
            used as a key or is going to be written back out to a file
            verbatim, then this won't work.  May have to use some sort of
            replacement strategy (python3 could use surrogateescape)
        '''

        display.debug("_low_level_execute_command(): starting")
#        if not cmd:
#            # this can happen with powershell modules when there is no analog to a Windows command (like chmod)
#            display.debug("_low_level_execute_command(): no command, exiting")
#           return dict(stdout='', stderr='', rc=254)

        allow_same_user = C.BECOME_ALLOW_SAME_USER
        same_user = self._play_context.become_user == self._play_context.remote_user
        if sudoable and self._play_context.become and (allow_same_user or not same_user):
            display.debug("_low_level_execute_command(): using become for this command")
            cmd = self._play_context.make_become_cmd(cmd, executable=executable)

        if self._connection.allow_executable:
            if executable is None:
                executable = self._play_context.executable
                # mitigation for SSH race which can drop stdout (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/13876)
                # only applied for the default executable to avoid interfering with the raw action
                cmd = self._connection._shell.append_command(cmd, 'sleep 0')
            if executable:
                cmd = executable + ' -c ' + shlex_quote(cmd)

        display.debug("_low_level_execute_command(): executing: %s" % (cmd,))

        # Change directory to basedir of task for command execution when connection is local
        if self._connection.transport == 'local':
            cwd = os.getcwd()
            os.chdir(self._loader.get_basedir())
        try:
            rc, stdout, stderr = self._connection.exec_command(cmd, in_data=in_data, sudoable=sudoable)
        finally:
            if self._connection.transport == 'local':
                os.chdir(cwd)

        # stdout and stderr may be either a file-like or a bytes object.
        # Convert either one to a text type
        if isinstance(stdout, binary_type):
            out = to_text(stdout, errors=encoding_errors)
        elif not isinstance(stdout, text_type):
            out = to_text(b''.join(stdout.readlines()), errors=encoding_errors)
        else:
            out = stdout

        if isinstance(stderr, binary_type):
            err = to_text(stderr, errors=encoding_errors)
        elif not isinstance(stderr, text_type):
            err = to_text(b''.join(stderr.readlines()), errors=encoding_errors)
        else:
            err = stderr

        if rc is None:
            rc = 0

        # be sure to remove the BECOME-SUCCESS message now
        out = self._strip_success_message(out)

        display.debug(u"_low_level_execute_command() done: rc=%d, stdout=%s, stderr=%s" % (rc, out, err))
        return dict(rc=rc, stdout=out, stdout_lines=out.splitlines(), stderr=err)

    def _get_diff_data(self, destination, source, task_vars, source_file=True):

        diff = {}
        display.debug("Going to peek to see if file has changed permissions")
        peek_result = self._execute_module(module_name='file', module_args=dict(path=destination, diff_peek=True), task_vars=task_vars, persist_files=True)

        if not peek_result.get('failed', False) or peek_result.get('rc', 0) == 0:

            if peek_result.get('state') == 'absent':
                diff['before'] = ''
            elif peek_result.get('appears_binary'):
                diff['dst_binary'] = 1
            elif peek_result.get('size') and C.MAX_FILE_SIZE_FOR_DIFF > 0 and peek_result['size'] > C.MAX_FILE_SIZE_FOR_DIFF:
                diff['dst_larger'] = C.MAX_FILE_SIZE_FOR_DIFF
            else:
                display.debug("Slurping the file %s" % source)
                dest_result = self._execute_module(module_name='slurp', module_args=dict(path=destination), task_vars=task_vars, persist_files=True)
                if 'content' in dest_result:
                    dest_contents = dest_result['content']
                    if dest_result['encoding'] == 'base64':
                        dest_contents = base64.b64decode(dest_contents)
                    else:
                        raise AnsibleError("unknown encoding in content option, failed: %s" % dest_result)
                    diff['before_header'] = destination
                    diff['before'] = dest_contents

            if source_file:
                st = os.stat(source)
                if C.MAX_FILE_SIZE_FOR_DIFF > 0 and st[stat.ST_SIZE] > C.MAX_FILE_SIZE_FOR_DIFF:
                    diff['src_larger'] = C.MAX_FILE_SIZE_FOR_DIFF
                else:
                    display.debug("Reading local copy of the file %s" % source)
                    try:
                        with open(source, 'rb') as src:
                            src_contents = src.read()
                    except Exception as e:
                        raise AnsibleError("Unexpected error while reading source (%s) for diff: %s " % (source, str(e)))

                    if b"\x00" in src_contents:
                        diff['src_binary'] = 1
                    else:
                        diff['after_header'] = source
                        diff['after'] = src_contents
            else:
                display.debug("source of file passed in")
                diff['after_header'] = 'dynamically generated'
                diff['after'] = source

        if self._play_context.no_log:
            if 'before' in diff:
                diff["before"] = ""
            if 'after' in diff:
                diff["after"] = " [[ Diff output has been hidden because 'no_log: true' was specified for this result ]]\n"

        return diff

    def _find_needle(self, dirname, needle):
        '''
            find a needle in haystack of paths, optionally using 'dirname' as a subdir.
            This will build the ordered list of paths to search and pass them to dwim
            to get back the first existing file found.
        '''

        # dwim already deals with playbook basedirs
        path_stack = self._task.get_search_path()

        result = self._loader.path_dwim_relative_stack(path_stack, dirname, needle)

        if result is None:
            raise AnsibleError("Unable to find '%s' in expected paths." % to_native(needle))

        return result