ansible-later/docs/content/build_rules/candidates.md

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Candidated

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.

Object type	Description
Task	all files within the parent directory tasks
Handler	all files within the parent directory handler
RoleVars	all files within the parent directory vars or default
GroupVars	all files (including subdirectories) within the parent directory group_vars
HostVars	all files (including subdirectories) within the parent directory host_vars
Meta	all files within the parent directory meta
Code	all files within the parent directory library, lookup_plugins, callback_plugins and filter_plugins or python files (.py)
Inventory	all files within the parent directory 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 subdirectories) within the parent directory templates or Jinja2 files (.j2)
File	all files (including subdirectories) within the parent directory files
Playbook	all YAML files (.yml or .yaml) not matching a previous object type
Doc	all files with README in filename