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validate-modules

Python program to help test or validate Ansible modules.

validate-modules is one of the ansible-test Sanity Tests, see Sanity Tests for more information.

Originally developed by Matt Martz (@sivel)

Usage

cd /path/to/ansible/source
source hacking/env-setup
ansible-test sanity --test validate-modules

Help

usage: validate-modules [-h] [-w] [--exclude EXCLUDE] [--arg-spec]
                        [--base-branch BASE_BRANCH] [--format {json,plain}]
                        [--output OUTPUT]
                        modules [modules ...]

positional arguments:
  modules               Path to module or module directory

optional arguments:
  -h, --help            show this help message and exit
  -w, --warnings        Show warnings
  --exclude EXCLUDE     RegEx exclusion pattern
  --arg-spec            Analyze module argument spec
  --base-branch BASE_BRANCH
                        Used in determining if new options were added
  --format {json,plain}
                        Output format. Default: "plain"
  --output OUTPUT       Output location, use "-" for stdout. Default "-"

Extending validate-modules

The validate-modules tool has a schema.py that is used to validate the YAML blocks, such as DOCUMENTATION and RETURNS.

Codes

Errors

code sample message
1xx Locations
101 Interpreter line is not #!/usr/bin/python
102 Interpreter line is not #!powershell
103 Did not find a call to main() (or removed_module() in the case of deprecated & docs only modules)
104 Call to main() not the last line (or removed_module() in the case of deprecated & docs only modules)
105 GPLv3 license header not found
106 Import found before documentation variables. All imports must appear below DOCUMENTATION/EXAMPLES/RETURN/ANSIBLE_METADATA
107 Imports should be directly below DOCUMENTATION/EXAMPLES/RETURN/ANSIBLE_METADATA
108 GPLv3 license header should be the short form for new modules
109 Next to last line is not if __name__ == "__main__":
 
2xx Imports
201 Did not find a module_utils import
203 requests import found, should use ansible.module_utils.urls instead
204 boto import found, new modules should use boto3
205 sys.exit() call found. Should be exit_json/fail_json
206 WANT_JSON not found in module
207 REPLACER_WINDOWS not found in module
208 module_utils imports should import specific components, not *
209 Only the following from __future__ imports are allowed: absolute_import, division, and print_function.
 
3xx Documentation
301 No DOCUMENTATION provided
302 DOCUMENTATION is not valid YAML
303 DOCUMENTATION fragment missing
304 Unknown DOCUMENTATION error
305 Invalid DOCUMENTATION schema
306 Module level version_added is not a valid version number
307 Module level version_added is incorrect
308 version_added for new option is not a valid version number
309 version_added for new option is incorrect
310 No EXAMPLES provided
311 EXAMPLES is not valid YAML
312 No RETURN documentation provided
313 RETURN is not valid YAML
314 No ANSIBLE_METADATA provided
315 ANSIBLE_METADATA was not provided as a dict, YAML not supported
316 Invalid ANSIBLE_METADATA schema
317 option is marked as required but specifies a default. Arguments with a default should not be marked as required
318 Module deprecated, but DOCUMENTATION.deprecated is missing
319 RETURN fragments missing or invalid
320 DOCUMENTATION.options must be a dictionary/hash when used
321 Exception attempting to import module for argument_spec introspection
322 argument is listed in the argument_spec, but not documented in the module
323 argument is listed in DOCUMENTATION.options, but not accepted by the module
324 Value for “default” from the argument_spec does not match the documentation
325 argument_spec defines type=”bool” but documentation does not
326 Value for “choices” from the argument_spec does not match the documentation
327 Default value from the documentation is not compatible with type defined in the argument_spec
328 Choices value from the documentation is not compatible with type defined in the argument_spec
329 Default value from the argument_spec is not compatible with type defined in the argument_spec
330 Choices value from the argument_spec is not compatible with type defined in the argument_spec
 
4xx Syntax
401 Python SyntaxError while parsing module
402 Indentation contains tabs
403 Type comparison using type() found. Use isinstance() instead
 
5xx Naming
501 Official Ansible modules must have a .py extension for python modules or a .ps1 for powershell modules
502 Ansible module subdirectories must contain an __init__.py
503 Missing python documentation file

Warnings

code sample message
1xx Locations
107 Imports should be directly below DOCUMENTATION/EXAMPLES/RETURN/ANSIBLE_METADATA for legacy modules
 
2xx Imports
208 module_utils imports should import specific components for legacy module, not *
291 Try/Except HAS_ expression missing
292 Did not find ansible.module_utils.basic import
 
3xx Documentation
312 No RETURN documentation provided for legacy module
391 Unknown pre-existing DOCUMENTATION error
392 Pre-existing DOCUMENTATION fragment missing