Install the ansible.content_builder tool.
pip install black==22.3.0 jsonschema jinja2==3.0.3 ansible-core
ansible-galaxy collection install git+https://github.com/ansible-community/ansible.content_builder.git
You can also include it in a requirements.yml
file and install it via ansible-galaxy collection install -r requirements.yml
using the format:
collections:
- name: ansible.content_builder
See Ansible Using collections for more details.
To use the content builder tool, you need to provide a YAML file that contains all the information needed to generate a vmware module. You can find the necessary files, such as the api specification and the modules.yaml, in the repository. You can copy these files to your local path and customize them as per your requirements. After that, you must specify the path of these files in the input yaml file against the api_object_path and resource parameter. If you want to generate both examples and modules, set the action parameter to generate_all
. If you only want to generate examples, use action: generate_examples
, and for only modules, use action: generate_modules
. For more information on the command and input arguments, please refer to the tool's README. To generate the vmware modules using the content_builder tool, you can use the following command:
ansible-playbook build.yaml -e manifest_file=MANIFEST.yaml
The build.yaml file should contain the following code:
---
- hosts: localhost
gather_facts: yes
roles:
- ansible.content_builder.run
And the MANIFEST.yaml file should contain the following code:
---
collection:
path: /collections/ansible_collections/vmware/vmware_rest
namespace: vmware
name: vmware_rest
plugins:
- type: module_openapi
name: "vmware_rest"
content: cloud
api_object_path: api_specifications/7.0.2
resource: config
action: generate_all
unique_key: ""
rm_swagger_json: ""
module_version: "1.0.0"
author: "Ansible Cloud Team"
Once the modules are generated in the location mentioned in collection:path
, you can follow the below steps to refresh the RETURN block in the module documentaion.
Refresh the RETURN Block
of the vmware modules using the test-suite:
Set the env variables mentioned in tox.ini.
mkdir -p ~/.ansible/collections/ansible_collections/goneri/utils
git clone https://github.com/goneri/ansible-collection-goneri.utils.git ~/.ansible/collections/ansible_collections/goneri/utils
cd ~/.ansible/collections/ansible_collections/vmware/vmware_rest/tests/integration/targets/vcenter_vm_scenario1
./refresh_RETURN_block.sh
cd ~/.ansible/collections/ansible_collections/goneri/utils
./scripts/inject_RETURN.py ~/.ansible/collections/ansible_collections/vmware/vmware_rest/manual/source/vmware_rest_scenarios/task_outputs ~/.ansible/collections/ansible_collections/vmware/vmware_rest --config-file config/inject_RETURN.yaml