# (c) 2012, Daniel Hokka Zakrisson # (c) 2017 Ansible Project # GNU General Public License v3.0+ (see COPYING or https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-3.0.txt) from __future__ import annotations DOCUMENTATION = """ name: file author: Daniel Hokka Zakrisson (!UNKNOWN) version_added: "0.9" short_description: read file contents description: - This lookup returns the contents from a file on the Ansible controller's file system. options: _terms: description: path(s) of files to read required: True rstrip: description: whether or not to remove whitespace from the ending of the looked-up file type: bool required: False default: True lstrip: description: whether or not to remove whitespace from the beginning of the looked-up file type: bool required: False default: False notes: - this lookup does not understand 'globbing', use the fileglob lookup instead. seealso: - ref: playbook_task_paths description: Search paths used for relative files. """ EXAMPLES = """ - ansible.builtin.debug: msg: "the value of foo.txt is {{ lookup('ansible.builtin.file', '/etc/foo.txt') }}" - name: display multiple file contents ansible.builtin.debug: var=item with_file: - "/path/to/foo.txt" - "bar.txt" # will be looked in files/ dir relative to play or in role - "/path/to/biz.txt" """ RETURN = """ _raw: description: - content of file(s) type: list elements: str """ from ansible.errors import AnsibleError from ansible.plugins.lookup import LookupBase from ansible.utils.display import Display display = Display() class LookupModule(LookupBase): def run(self, terms, variables=None, **kwargs): ret = [] self.set_options(var_options=variables, direct=kwargs) for term in terms: display.debug("File lookup term: %s" % term) # Find the file in the expected search path try: lookupfile = self.find_file_in_search_path(variables, 'files', term, ignore_missing=True) display.vvvv(u"File lookup using %s as file" % lookupfile) if lookupfile: contents = self._loader.get_text_file_contents(lookupfile) if self.get_option('lstrip'): contents = contents.lstrip() if self.get_option('rstrip'): contents = contents.rstrip() ret.append(contents) else: # TODO: only add search info if abs path? raise AnsibleError("File not found. Use -vvvvv to see paths searched.") except AnsibleError as ex: raise AnsibleError(f"Unable to access the file {term!r}.") from ex return ret