Add AnsibleConfig class

This enables easy access to Ansible configuration.

.pre-commit-config.yaml

@@ -78,6 +78,7 @@ repos:
     # empty args needed in order to match mypy cli behavior
     args: ["--strict"]
     additional_dependencies:
+    - .
     - flaky
     - packaging
     - pytest
@@ -88,6 +89,7 @@ repos:
   hooks:
   - id: pylint
     additional_dependencies:
+    - .
     - flaky
     - pytest
     - PyYAML

.pylintrc

@@ -17,3 +17,5 @@ preferred-modules =
 disable =
     # On purpose disabled as we rely on black
     line-too-long,
+    # local imports do not work well with pre-commit hook
+    import-error,

README.md

@@ -1,2 +1,23 @@
 # ansible-compat
-A python package containing functions that help interacting with various versions of Ansible
+
+A python package contains functions that facilitates working with various
+versions of Ansible, 2.9 and newer.
+
+## Access to Ansible configuration
+
+As you may not want to parse `ansible-config dump` yourself, you
+can make use of a simple python class that facilitates access to
+it, using python data types.
+
+```python
+from ansible_compat.config import AnsibleConfig
+
+
+def test_example_config():
+    cfg = AnsibleConfig()
+    assert isinstance(cfg.ACTION_WARNINGS, bool)
+    # you can also use lowercase:
+    assert isinstance(cfg.action_warnings, bool)
+    # you can also use it as dictionary
+    assert cfg['action_warnings'] == cfg.action_warnings
+```

setup.cfg

@@ -69,6 +69,8 @@ test =
   flaky
   pytest
   pytest-cov
+  pytest-markdown
+  pytest-plus
 
 [options.packages.find]
 where = src

src/ansible_compat/config.py

@@ -3,13 +3,20 @@
 import re
 import subprocess
 import sys
+from collections import UserDict
 from functools import lru_cache
-from typing import List, Optional, Tuple
+from typing import TYPE_CHECKING, List, Optional, Tuple
 
 from packaging.version import Version
 
 from ansible_compat.constants import ANSIBLE_MISSING_RC
 
+if TYPE_CHECKING:
+    # https://github.com/PyCQA/pylint/issues/3285
+    _UserDict = UserDict[str, object]  # pylint: disable=unsubscriptable-object)
+else:
+    _UserDict = UserDict
+
 # Used to store collection list paths (with mock paths if needed)
 collection_list: List[str] = []
 
@@ -77,5 +84,50 @@ def ansible_version(version: str = "") -> Version:
     return Version(version)
 
 
+class AnsibleConfig(_UserDict):  # pylint: disable=too-many-ancestors
+    """Interface to query Ansible configuration.
+
+    This should allow user to access everything provided by `ansible-config dump` without having to parse the data himself.
+    """
+
+    _aliases = {
+        'COLLECTIONS_PATHS': 'COLLECTIONS_PATH',  # 2.9 -> 2.10+
+        'COLLECTIONS_PATH': 'COLLECTIONS_PATHS',  # 2.10+ -> 2.9
+    }
+
+    def __init__(self) -> None:
+        """Load config dictionary."""
+        super().__init__()
+        env = os.environ.copy()
+        # Avoid possible ANSI garbage
+        env["ANSIBLE_FORCE_COLOR"] = "0"
+
+        config = subprocess.check_output(
+            ["ansible-config", "dump"], universal_newlines=True, env=env
+        )
+        for match in re.finditer(
+            r"^(?P<key>[A-Za-z0-9_]+).* = (?P<value>.*)$", config, re.MULTILINE
+        ):
+            key = match.groupdict()['key']
+            value = match.groupdict()['value']
+            try:
+                self[key] = eval(value)  # pylint: disable=eval-used
+            except (NameError, SyntaxError):
+                self[key] = value
+
+    def __getattr__(self, attr_name: str) -> object:
+        """Allow access of config options as attributes."""
+        name = attr_name.upper()
+        if name in self.data:
+            return self.data[name]
+        if name in self._aliases:
+            return self.data[self._aliases[name]]
+        raise AttributeError(attr_name)
+
+    def __getitem__(self, name: str) -> object:
+        """Allow access to config options using indexing."""
+        return super().__getitem__(name.upper())
+
+
 if ansible_collections_path() in os.environ:
     collection_list = os.environ[ansible_collections_path()].split(':')

test/test_config.py

@@ -0,0 +1,22 @@
+"""Tests for ansible_compat.config submodule."""
+import pytest
+
+import ansible_compat
+
+
+def test_config() -> None:
+    """Checks that config vars are loaded with their expected type."""
+    config = ansible_compat.config.AnsibleConfig()
+    assert isinstance(config.ACTION_WARNINGS, bool)
+    assert isinstance(config.CACHE_PLUGIN_PREFIX, str)
+    assert isinstance(config.CONNECTION_FACTS_MODULES, dict)
+    assert config.ANSIBLE_COW_PATH is None
+    assert isinstance(config.NETWORK_GROUP_MODULES, list)
+    assert isinstance(config.DEFAULT_GATHER_TIMEOUT, int)
+
+    # check lowercase and older name aliasing
+    assert isinstance(config.collections_paths, list)
+    assert isinstance(config.collections_path, list)
+
+    with pytest.raises(AttributeError):
+        print(config.THIS_DOES_NOT_EXIST)

tox.ini

@@ -28,6 +28,7 @@ commands =
   {envpython} -m pytest \
   --junitxml "{toxworkdir}/junit.{envname}.xml" \
   {posargs:\
+    --no-success-flaky-report \
     --cov ansible_compat \
     --cov "{envsitepackagesdir}/ansible_compat" \
     --cov-report term-missing:skip-covered \
@@ -54,6 +55,7 @@ setenv =
   PIP_DISABLE_PIP_VERSION_CHECK = 1
   PIP_CONSTRAINT = {toxinidir}/constraints.txt
   PRE_COMMIT_COLOR = always
+  PYTEST_REQPASS = 28
   FORCE_COLOR = 1
 allowlist_externals =
   sh