# this is a virtual module that is entirely implemented server side # Copyright: (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 absolute_import, division, print_function __metaclass__ = type ANSIBLE_METADATA = {'metadata_version': '1.1', 'status': ['stableinterface'], 'supported_by': 'core'} DOCUMENTATION = ''' --- module: fetch short_description: Fetches a file from remote nodes description: - This module works like M(copy), but in reverse. It is used for fetching files from remote machines and storing them locally in a file tree, organized by hostname. - This module is also supported for Windows targets. version_added: "0.2" options: src: description: - The file on the remote system to fetch. This I(must) be a file, not a directory. Recursive fetching may be supported in a later release. required: true dest: description: - A directory to save the file into. For example, if the I(dest) directory is C(/backup) a I(src) file named C(/etc/profile) on host C(host.example.com), would be saved into C(/backup/host.example.com/etc/profile) required: true fail_on_missing: version_added: "1.1" description: - When set to 'yes', the task will fail if the remote file cannot be read for any reason. Prior to Ansible-2.5, setting this would only fail if the source file was missing. - The default was changed to "yes" in Ansible-2.5. type: bool default: 'yes' validate_checksum: version_added: "1.4" description: - Verify that the source and destination checksums match after the files are fetched. type: bool default: 'yes' aliases: [ "validate_md5" ] flat: version_added: "1.2" description: - Allows you to override the default behavior of appending hostname/path/to/file to the destination. If dest ends with '/', it will use the basename of the source file, similar to the copy module. Obviously this is only handy if the filenames are unique. type: bool default: 'no' author: - "Ansible Core Team" - "Michael DeHaan" notes: - When running fetch with C(become), the M(slurp) module will also be used to fetch the contents of the file for determining the remote checksum. This effectively doubles the transfer size, and depending on the file size can consume all available memory on the remote or local hosts causing a C(MemoryError). Due to this it is advisable to run this module without C(become) whenever possible. - Prior to Ansible-2.5 this module would not fail if reading the remote file was impossible unless fail_on_missing was set. In Ansible-2.5+, playbook authors are encouraged to use fail_when or ignore_errors to get this ability. They may also explicitly set fail_on_missing to False to get the non-failing behaviour. - This module is also supported for Windows targets. ''' EXAMPLES = ''' # Store file into /tmp/fetched/host.example.com/tmp/somefile - fetch: src: /tmp/somefile dest: /tmp/fetched # Specifying a path directly - fetch: src: /tmp/somefile dest: /tmp/prefix-{{ inventory_hostname }} flat: yes # Specifying a destination path - fetch: src: /tmp/uniquefile dest: /tmp/special/ flat: yes # Storing in a path relative to the playbook - fetch: src: /tmp/uniquefile dest: special/prefix-{{ inventory_hostname }} flat: yes '''