Re: Ansible tab completion: re-read cached hosts & groups on directory change

[Lawrence Velázquez <larryv@xxxxxxx>]

Hi Moritz,

On Fri, Jan 7, 2022, at 4:21 AM, Moritz Bunkus wrote:
> we have several Ansible repositories in different directories. I often have
> to switch between them.
>
> Unfortunately the tab completion for all the Ansible commands caches known
> Hosts & Groups in the global variables _ansible_hosts &
> _ansible_groups. For me the effect is that the wrong set of hosts & groups
> is offered when I change to a different Ansible repo.
>
> How to reproduce:
>
> 1. Have two or more Ansible repositories with different inventories
>    somewhere
> 2. cd into /path/to/first_ansible_tree
> 3. Type `anssible <TAB>`, let tab completion cache hosts & groups
> 4. Hit <TAB> again to verify that the offered completions match expected
>    ones
> 5. cd into /path/to/other_ansible_tree
> 6. Type `ansible <TAB><TAB>` and observe that the offered completions still
>    come from the first_ansible_tree, not from other_ansible_tree
>
> As a quick workaround I've modified the completion to also cache the
> working directory where _ansible_hosts & _ansible_groups were created. If
> the current working directory doesn't match the cached working directory,
> both variables are unset & their values cached again. This seems to work.
>
> The attached patch implements this. Feel free to use it however you want,
> or to apply a totally different solution.

Thanks for the contribution, and apologies for the delay.

workers: Are we interested in integrating this?

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vq