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title: Candidated
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Each file passed to `ansible-later` will be classified. The result is a `Candidate` object which contains some meta information and is an instance of one of following object types.
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| Object type | Description |
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| ----------- | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
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| Task | all files within the parent dir `tasks` |
| Handler | all files within the parent dir `handler` |
| RoleVars | all files within the parent dir `vars` or `default` |
| GroupVars | all files (including subdirs) within the parent dir `group_vars` |
| HostVars | all files (including subdirs) within the parent dir `host_vars` |
| Meta | all files within the parent dir `meta` |
| Code | all files within the parent dir `library` , `lookup_plugins` , `callback_plugins` and `filter_plugins` or python files (`.py`) |
| Inventory | all files within the parent dir `inventories` and `inventory` or `hosts` as filename |
| Rolesfile | all files with `rolesfile` or `requirements` in filename |
| Makefile | all files with `Makefile` in filename |
| Template | all files (including subdirs) within the parent dir `templates` or jinja2 files (`.j2`) |
| File | all files (including subdirs) within the parent dir `files` |
| Playbook | all yaml files (`.yml` or `.yaml` ) not maching a previous object type |
| Doc | all files with `README` in filename |
