import_playbook - change additional params to deprecation

changelogs/fragments/72745-import_playbook-deprecation-extra-params.yml

@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+bugfixes:
+  - import_playbook - change warning about extra parameters to deprecation (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/72745)

lib/ansible/modules/import_playbook.py

@@ -42,6 +42,10 @@
 - name: Include a play after another play
   import_playbook: otherplays.yaml
 
+- name: Set variables on an imported playbook
+  import_playbook: otherplays.yml
+  vars:
+    service: httpd
 
 - name: This DOES NOT WORK
   hosts: all

lib/ansible/playbook/playbook_include.py

@@ -172,7 +172,8 @@ def _preprocess_import(self, ds, new_ds, k, v):
         else:
             new_ds['import_playbook'] = items[0].strip()
             if len(items) > 1:
-                display.warning('Additional parameters in import_playbook statements are not supported. This will be an error in version 2.14')
+                display.deprecated("Additional parameters in import_playbook statements are deprecated. "
+                                   "Use 'vars' instead. See 'import_playbook' documentation for examples.", version='2.14')
                 # rejoin the parameter portion of the arguments and
                 # then use parse_kv() to get a dict of params back
                 params = parse_kv(" ".join(items[1:]))

test/integration/targets/include_import/runme.sh

@@ -17,7 +17,7 @@ ansible -m include_role -a name=role1 localhost
 ## Import (static)
 
 # Playbook
-test "$(ansible-playbook -i ../../inventory playbook/test_import_playbook.yml "$@" 2>&1 | grep -c '\[WARNING\]: Additional parameters in import_playbook')" = 1
+test "$(ANSIBLE_DEPRECATION_WARNINGS=1 ansible-playbook -i ../../inventory playbook/test_import_playbook.yml "$@" 2>&1 | grep -c '\[DEPRECATION WARNING\]: Additional parameters in import_playbook')" = 1
 
 ANSIBLE_STRATEGY='linear' ansible-playbook playbook/test_import_playbook_tags.yml -i inventory "$@" --tags canary1,canary22,validate --skip-tags skipme
 

test/lib/ansible_test/_data/sanity/pylint/plugins/deprecated.py

@@ -242,7 +242,7 @@ def visit_call(self, node):
                     this_collection = collection_name == (self.collection_name or 'ansible.builtin')
                     if not this_collection:
                         self.add_message('wrong-collection-deprecated', node=node, args=(collection_name,))
-                else:
+                elif self.collection_name is not None:
                     self.add_message('ansible-deprecated-no-collection-name', node=node)
 
                 if date: