Revert "Merge pull request #6287 from risaacson/fix_hash_in_var"

This reverts commit a8082874, reversing
changes made to 6129ea75.

lib/ansible/inventory/ini.py

@@ -23,12 +23,10 @@ from ansible.inventory.group import Group
 from ansible.inventory.expand_hosts import detect_range
 from ansible.inventory.expand_hosts import expand_hostname_range
 from ansible import errors
-import ansible.utils as utils
 import shlex
 import re
 import ast
 
-
 class InventoryParser(object):
     """
     Host inventory for ansible.
@@ -49,6 +47,7 @@ class InventoryParser(object):
         self._parse_group_variables()
         return self.groups
 
+
     # [webservers]
     # alpha
     # beta:2345
@@ -66,16 +65,9 @@ class InventoryParser(object):
         active_group_name = 'ungrouped'
 
         for line in self.lines:
-
-            # Split off any comments that are not contained in a variable.
-            if "#" in line:
-                line = utils.split_unquoted_hash(line)
-
-            # Clean up the end of the line.
-            line = line.strip()
-
+            line = line.split("#")[0].strip()
             if line.startswith("[") and line.endswith("]"):
-                active_group_name = line.replace("[", "").replace("]", "")
+                active_group_name = line.replace("[","").replace("]","")
                 if line.find(":vars") != -1 or line.find(":children") != -1:
                     active_group_name = active_group_name.rsplit(":", 1)[0]
                     if active_group_name not in self.groups:
@@ -109,12 +101,14 @@ class InventoryParser(object):
                     (hostname.find("]") == -1 and hostname.find(":") != -1)):
                         (hostname, port) = hostname.rsplit(":", 1)
 
+                hostnames = []
                 if detect_range(hostname):
                     hostnames = expand_hostname_range(hostname)
                 else:
                     hostnames = [hostname]
 
                 for hn in hostnames:
+                    host = None
                     if hn in self.hosts:
                         host = self.hosts[hn]
                     else:
@@ -125,24 +119,15 @@ class InventoryParser(object):
                             if t.startswith('#'):
                                 break
                             try:
-                                (k, v) = t.split("=", 1)
+                                (k,v) = t.split("=", 1)
                             except ValueError, e:
                                 raise errors.AnsibleError("Invalid ini entry: %s - %s" % (t, str(e)))
-                            # I am not sure where a variable with a hash needs to be evaluated via ast.
-                            # If an instance comes up this is the condition we need to modify.
-                            if "#" in v:
-                                host.set_variable(k, v)
-                            else:
                             try:
-                                    host.set_variable(k, ast.literal_eval(v))
-                                # Using explicit exceptions.
-                                # Likely a string that literal_eval does not like. We wil then just set it.
-                                except ValueError:
-                                    # For some reason this was thought to be malformed.
-                                    host.set_variable(k, v)
-                                except SyntaxError:
-                                    # Is this a hash with an equals at the end?
-                                    host.set_variable(k, v)
+                                host.set_variable(k,ast.literal_eval(v))
+                            except:
+                                # most likely a string that literal_eval
+                                # doesn't like, so just set it
+                                host.set_variable(k,v)
                     self.groups[active_group_name].add_host(host)
 
     # [southeast:children]
@@ -157,7 +142,7 @@ class InventoryParser(object):
             if line is None or line == '':
                 continue
             if line.startswith("[") and line.find(":children]") != -1:
-                line = line.replace("[", "").replace(":children]", "")
+                line = line.replace("[","").replace(":children]","")
                 group = self.groups.get(line, None)
                 if group is None:
                     group = self.groups[line] = Group(name=line)
@@ -172,6 +157,7 @@ class InventoryParser(object):
                 else:
                     group.add_child_group(kid_group)
 
+
     # [webservers:vars]
     # http_port=1234
     # maxRequestsPerChild=200
@@ -181,7 +167,7 @@ class InventoryParser(object):
         for line in self.lines:
             line = line.strip()
             if line.startswith("[") and line.find(":vars]") != -1:
-                line = line.replace("[", "").replace(":vars]", "")
+                line = line.replace("[","").replace(":vars]","")
                 group = self.groups.get(line, None)
                 if group is None:
                     raise errors.AnsibleError("can't add vars to undefined group: %s" % line)

lib/ansible/utils/__init__.py

@@ -1071,37 +1071,3 @@ def random_password(length=20, chars=C.DEFAULT_PASSWORD_CHARS):
             password.append(new_char)
 
     return ''.join(password)
-
-
-def split_unquoted_hash(line):
-    '''
-     Carve off comments from a line which are not contained in quotes and a part of an assignment.
-    '''
-
-    # We would really like to have this using a regex to make it less code. For instance:
-    # line = re.split('(?<!=["|\'].*)#(?!.*?["|\']).*', line)[0]
-    # this has the problem that it comes back with a "sre_constants.error: look-behind requires fixed-width pattern"
-
-    if "#" in line:
-        split_line = line.split("#")
-        instances = len(split_line) - 1
-        if instances > 0:
-            marker = 0
-            while marker < instances:
-                if ("=\"" in split_line[marker] and "\"" in split_line[marker + 1]) or (
-                        "='" in split_line[marker] and "'" in split_line[marker + 1]):
-                    marker += 1
-                else:
-                    if marker == 0:
-                        line = split_line[marker]
-                    else:
-                        # We have multiple fragments that we need to combine back together.
-                        # rekram is us reversing that work we did with marker.
-                        rekram = 0
-                        new_line = split_line[rekram]
-                        while marker > rekram:
-                            rekram += 1
-                            new_line = new_line + "#" + split_line[rekram]
-                        line = new_line
-                    break
-        return line
\ No newline at end of file

test/units/inventory_test_data/inventory_dir/0hosts

-zeus var_a=0
+zeus var_a=2
 morpheus
 thor

test/units/inventory_test_data/inventory_dir/3comments

-[titan]
-cronus var_a="a#b" var_b="b#c" var_c="c#d" # Is this overkill?
-
 [major-god] # group with inline comments
-zeus var_a="2#3" # host with inline comments and "#" in the var string
+zeus var_a="1#2" # host with inline comments and "#" in the var string
 # A comment
 thor