An attempt at modularization prior to moving things towards BaseObject and considering Attributes.

core @ 9b35a391

-Subproject commit db5668b84c3a19498b843d0bfe34574aef40c193
+Subproject commit 9b35a391213fe87834af5ebc907109de2bc0005f

v2/ansible/playbook/base.py

@@ -21,43 +21,5 @@ from playbook.tag import Tag
 class Base(object):
 
     def __init__(self):
-        self._tags = Tag()
+        pass
 
-    def _ensure_int(self, attr, default=0):
-        value = getattr(self, attr)
-        if value is None:
-            setattr(self, attr, default)
-        elif not isinstance(value, int):
-            try:
-                setattr(self, attr, int(value))
-            except ValueError:
-                raise AnsibleError("failed to set attr %s to an integer, got '%s' which is a %s" % (attr, value, type(value)))
-
-    def _ensure_bool(self, attr, default=False):
-        value = getattr(self, attr)
-        if value is None:
-            setattr(self, attr, default)
-        elif not isinstance(value, bool):
-            setattr(self, attr, utils.boolean(value))
-
-    def _ensure_basestring(self, attr, default=""):
-        value = getattr(self, attr)
-        if value is None:
-            setattr(self, attr, default)
-        elif not isinstance(value, basestring):
-            setattr(self, attr, "%s" % value)
-
-    def _ensure_list_of_strings(self, attr, default=[]):
-        value = getattr(self, attr)
-        if value is None:
-            setattr(self, attr, default)
-        elif not isinstance(value, list):
-            setattr(self, attr, [ str(value) ])
-        else:
-            changed = False
-            for idx,val in enumerate(value):
-                if not isinstance(val, basestring):
-                    value[idx] = str(val)
-                    changed = True
-            if changed:
-                setattr(self, attr, value)