Candidated
Each file passed to ansible-later will be classified. The result is a Candidate object which contains some meta information and is an instance of one of following object types.
| Object type | Description |
|---|---|
| Task | all files within the parent directory tasks |
| Handler | all files within the parent directory handler |
| RoleVars | all files within the parent directory vars or default |
| GroupVars | all files (including subdirectories) within the parent directory group_vars |
| HostVars | all files (including subdirectories) within the parent directory host_vars |
| Meta | all files within the parent directory meta |
| Code | all files within the parent directory library, lookup_plugins, callback_plugins and filter_plugins or python files (.py) |
| Inventory | all files within the parent directory inventories and inventory or hosts as filename |
| Rolesfile | all files with rolesfile or requirements in filename |
| Makefile | all files with Makefile in filename |
| Template | all files (including subdirectories) within the parent directory templates or Jinja2 files (.j2) |
| File | all files (including subdirectories) within the parent directory files |
| Playbook | all YAML files (.yml or .yaml) not matching a previous object type |
| Doc | all files with README in filename |