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 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