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@ -24,9 +24,8 @@ The project name is an acronym for **L**ovely **A**utomation **TE**sting f**R**m
- [Using pip](#using-pip)
- [From source](#from-source)
- [Configuration](#configuration)
- [Default settings](#default-settings)
- [Usage](#usage)
- [Review a git repositories](#review-a-git-repositories)
- [Review a list of files](#review-a-list-of-files)
- [Buildin rules](#buildin-rules)
- [Build your own](#build-your-own)
- [The standards file](#the-standards-file)
@ -53,53 +52,110 @@ sudo pip install ansible-later
```Shell
# Install dependency
git clone https://repourl
git clone https://github.com/xoxys/ansible-later
export PYTHONPATH=$PYTHONPATH:`pwd`/ansible-later/ansiblelater
export PATH=$PATH:`pwd`/ansible-later/ansiblelater/bin
export PATH=$PATH:`pwd`/ansible-later/bin
```
### Configuration
If your standards (and optionally inhouse rules) are set up, create
a configuration file in the appropriate location (this will depend on
your operating system)
ansible-later comes with some default settigs which should be sufficent for most users to start,
but you can adjust most settings to your needs.
The location can be found by using `ansible-later` with no arguments.
Changes can be made in a yaml configuration file or through cli options
which will be processed in the following order (last wins):
You can override the configuration file location with the `-c` flag.
- default config (build-in)
- global config file (this will depend on your operating system)
- folderbased config file (`.later` file in current working folder)
- cli options
```INI
[rules]
standards = /path/to/your/standards/rules
Be careful! YAML Attributes will be overwritten while lists in any
config file will be merged.
To make it easier to review a singel file e.g. for debugging purpose, amsible-later
will ignore `exclude_files` and `ignore_dotfiles` options.
#### Default settings
```YAML
ansible:
# Add the name of used custom ansible modules.
# Otherwise ansible-later can't detect unknown modules
# and will through an error.
custom_modules: []
# Settings for variable formatting rule (ANSIBLE0004)
double-braces:
max-spaces-inside: 1
min-spaces-inside: 1
logging:
# You can enable json logging if a parsable output is required
json: False
# Possible options debug | info | warning | error | critical
level: "warning"
# Global settings for all defined rules
rules:
# list of files to exclude
exclude_files: []
# Examples:
# - molecule/
# - files/**/*.py
# List of Ansible rule ID's
# If empty all rules will be used.
filter: []
# All dotfiles (including hidden folders) are excluded by default.
# You can disable this setting and handle dotfiles by yourself with `exclude_files`.
ignore_dotfiles: True
# Path to the folder containing your custom standards file
standards: ansiblelater/data
# Block to control included yamlllint rules.
# See https://yamllint.readthedocs.io/en/stable/rules.html
yamllint:
colons:
max-spaces-after: 1
max-spaces-before: 0
document-start:
present: True
empty-lines:
max: 1
max-end: 1
max-start: 0
hyphens:
max-spaces-after: 1
indentation:
check-multi-line-strings: False
indent-sequences: True
spaces: 2
```
The standards directory can be overridden with the `-d` argument.
### Usage
```Shell
ansible-later FILES
```
Where FILES is a space delimited list of files to review. ansible-later is _not_ recursive and won't descend
into child folders; it just processes the list of files you give it.
Passing a folder in with the list of files will elicit a warning:
Where FILES is a space delimited list of files to review. You can also pass glob
patterns to ansible-later:
```Shell
WARN: Couldn't classify file ./foldername
# Review single files
ansible-later meta/main.yml tasks/install.yml
# Review all yml files (including subfolders)
ansible-later **/*.yml
```
ansible-later will review inventory files, role
files, python code (modules, plugins) and playbooks.
ansible-later will review inventory files, role f0iles, python code (modules, plugins)
and playbooks.
- The goal is that each file that changes in a
changeset should be reviewable simply by passing
those files as the arguments to ansible-later.
- Roles are slightly harder, and sub-roles are yet
harder still (currently just using `-R` to process
roles works very well, but doesn't examine the
structure of the role)
- Using `{{ playbook_dir }}` in sub roles is so far
very hard.
- This should work against various repository styles
@ -108,24 +164,6 @@ files, python code (modules, plugins) and playbooks.
- per-playbook repository
- It should work with roles requirement files and with local roles
#### Review a git repositories
- `git ls-files | xargs ansible-later` works well in
a roles repo to review the whole role. But it will
review the whole of other repos too.
- `git ls-files *[^LICENSE,.md] | xargs ansible-later`
works like the first example but excludes some
unnecessary files.
- `git diff branch_to_compare | ansible-later` will
review only the changes between the branches and
surrounding context.
#### Review a list of files
- `find . -type f | xargs ansible-later` will review
all files in the current folder (and all subfolders),
even if they're not checked into git
#### Buildin rules
Reviews are nothing without some rules or standards against which to review. ansible-later