Ansible 2.0 not supported

[larsla]

When trying to use Ansigenome with Ansible 2.0 i get this error:
ERROR! 'ansigenome_info' is not a valid attribute for a RoleMetadata

I checked the MetaData class in ansible 2.0 and it seems to be more strict than earlier.
https://github.com/ansible/ansible/blob/devel/lib/ansible/playbook/role/metadata.py

Do you have any idea how this could be solved? I volunteer to help fix it, but I'm unsure how to proceed.

[ypid]

Hi @larsla
Me and I think also @nickjj would appreciate your help here. This issue is related to #23 and @nickjj somehow closed it. The trick which is already used is to move the ansigenome_info to meta/ansigenome.yml for Ansible 2.0 but Ansigenome can not handle that right now. To fix this, the script would need to be changed so that it tries to read the metadata from meta/ansigenome.yml first. I tired that once but gave up because if the code quallity. @nickjj agrees that the script could need some rework. If you want to help, that would be awesome 👍

[nathanhruby]

@nickjj is there a specific type of fix you're looking for here? If so, can you let me know? I'd be happy spend some time this weekend on this issue so I can start my 2.0 upgrade work next week.

[nickjj]

Hey @drybjed, would you mind guiding @nathanhruby on what would need to be done to upgrade Ansigenome to be 2.0 compatible?

I haven't used Ansible in quite some time and I'm not sure of any of the changes.

[drybjed]

@nathanhruby Hi! Right off the bat the biggest benefit would be to change the default ansigenome metadata file. Right now ansigenome expects the ansigenome_info dict in the meta/main.yml of the Ansible role, however Ansible does not tolerate it at all. In my roles, I moved that dictionary to separate meta/ansigenome.yml file which is not an issue for Ansible.

There should be some changes in the default template that interprets the dictionary data. Ansible Galaxy recently switched from role ids to user/role naming scheme in the Galaxy URLs. Since role id is not easy to find anymore (maybe through API), I would siwtch the ansigenome_info.galaxy_id variable to just ansigenome_info.galaxy bool activating or diactivating the custom template parts, and used the user/role information from separate variable. I'm not sure if Ansible Galaxy uses GitHub user/repository mapping or GitHub user/Galaxy role name, I suppose that could be tested.

One other thing that I would change is removal of role categories and switch to Ansible Galaxy tags.

[ypid]

@larsla, @nathanhruby any progress?

[nathanhruby]

sorry I got pulled away from the 2.0 upgrade, of which this was a blocker. I haven't had time to get back to it. I will try to carve out some time this week.

[mihai-satmarean]

Hello everybody, this topic remains unattended even that in the forks there are a lot of changes in this direction. It would be really helpful if you can somehow integrate usage for Ansible > 2.0
Thanks!

[ypid]

#49 fixes this or at least has a workaround for it. Feel free to cherry pick.

[mihai-satmarean]

Hi thank you! You mean that I should fork and accept a merge request into that fork? Pe 14 mar. 2017, la 18:47, Robin Schneider <notifications@github.com> a scris:

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#49 fixes this. Feel free to cherry pick. — You are receiving this because you commented. Reply to this email directly, view it on GitHub, or mute the thread.

[ypid]

@mihai-satmarean I mean that https://github.com/ypid/ansigenome already includes a workaround. It might need some rework but then it can be proposed in a separate PR to fix this issue.

[mihai-satmarean]

Since we would like to automate our documentation with this tool, but we have no bandwidth to address this would be great if someone can point us to a working branch/fork that just works with ansible >2.0.
Thank you!

[ypid]

As said, https://github.com/ypid/ansigenome/tree/devel includes a patch. It just works with Ansible 2.0 and above (but should be reworked to be merged into Ansigenome).

[adriaand007]

hi there maybe I'm missing something but I get the following error
File "build/bdist.linux-x86_64/egg/ansigenome/scan.py", line 83, in init
File "build/bdist.linux-x86_64/egg/ansigenome/scan.py", line 183, in scan_roles
File "build/bdist.linux-x86_64/egg/ansigenome/scan.py", line 410, in read_and_validate_meta
KeyError: 'keyids_file'

This is if I run the command like

ansigenome gendoc /etc/ansible/roles/ -f md