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1 files changed, 8 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/lib/ansible/plugins/inventory/script.py b/lib/ansible/plugins/inventory/script.py
index 4ffd8e1a..48d92343 100644
--- a/lib/ansible/plugins/inventory/script.py
+++ b/lib/ansible/plugins/inventory/script.py
@@ -28,6 +28,8 @@ DOCUMENTATION = '''
notes:
- Enabled in configuration by default.
- The plugin does not cache results because external inventory scripts are responsible for their own caching.
+ - To write your own inventory script see (R(Developing dynamic inventory,developing_inventory) from the documentation site.
+ - To find the scripts that used to be part of the code release, go to U(https://github.com/ansible-community/contrib-scripts/).
'''
import os
@@ -37,7 +39,7 @@ from collections.abc import Mapping
from ansible.errors import AnsibleError, AnsibleParserError
from ansible.module_utils.basic import json_dict_bytes_to_unicode
-from ansible.module_utils._text import to_native, to_text
+from ansible.module_utils.common.text.converters import to_native, to_text
from ansible.plugins.inventory import BaseInventoryPlugin
from ansible.utils.display import Display
@@ -187,7 +189,11 @@ class InventoryModule(BaseInventoryPlugin):
sp = subprocess.Popen(cmd, stdout=subprocess.PIPE, stderr=subprocess.PIPE)
except OSError as e:
raise AnsibleError("problem running %s (%s)" % (' '.join(cmd), e))
- (out, err) = sp.communicate()
+ (out, stderr) = sp.communicate()
+
+ if sp.returncode != 0:
+ raise AnsibleError("Inventory script (%s) had an execution error: %s" % (path, to_native(stderr)))
+
if out.strip() == '':
return {}
try: