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# Custom linting rules
Define and use your own sets of rules with Ansible-lint.
## Rule definitions
You define each custom rule in a unique Python class file. Default rules are
named _DeprecatedVariableRule.py_, etc.
Each rule should have a short description as a Python docstring wrapped in
triple quotes `"""` immediately after the class name. The short description
should be brief and meaningfully explain the purpose of the rule to users.
Each rule definition should have the following parts:
- `id` provides a unique identifier to the rule.
- `description` explains what the rule checks for.
- `tags` specifies one or more tags for including or excluding the rule.
### Match and matchtask methods
Each rule definition should also invoke one of the following methods:
- `match` takes a line and returns:
- None or False if the line does not match the test.
- True or a custom message if the line does match the test. (This allows one
rule to test multiple behaviors - see e.g. the
_CommandsInsteadOfModulesRule_.)
- `matchtask` operates on a single task or handler, such that tasks get
standardized to always contain a _module_ key and _module_arguments_ key.
Other common task modifiers, such as _when_, _with_items_, etc., are also
available as keys if present in the task.
The following is an example rule that uses the `match` method:
```python
from typing import Union
from ansiblelint.rules import AnsibleLintRule
class DeprecatedVariableRule(AnsibleLintRule):
"""Deprecated variable declarations."""
id = 'EXAMPLE002'
description = 'Check for lines that have old style ${var} ' + \
'declarations'
tags = ['deprecations']
def match(self, line: str) -> Union[bool, str]:
return '${' in line
```
The following is an example rule that uses the `matchtask` method:
```python
{!../examples/rules/task_has_tag.py!}
```
The task argument to `matchtask` contains a number of keys - the critical one is
_action_. The value of `task['action']` contains the module being used, and the
arguments passed, both as key-value pairs and a list of other arguments (e.g.
the command used with shell).
## Packaging custom rules
Ansible-lint automatically loads and enables custom rules in Python packages
from the _custom_ subdirectory. This subdirectory is part of the Ansible-lint
installation directory, for example:
`/usr/lib/python3.8/site-packages/ansiblelint/rules/custom/`
To automatically load custom rules, do the following:
1. Package your custom rules as a Python package with a descriptive name.
2. Configure the \[options\] section of the `setup.cfg` of your custom rules
Python package as in the following example:
```yaml
[options]
packages =
ansiblelint.rules.custom.<your_custom_rules_subdir>
package_dir =
ansiblelint.rules.custom.<your_custom_rules_subdir> = <your_rules_source_code_subdir>
```
3. Install the Python package into
`<ansible_lint_custom_rules_dir>/custom/<your_custom_rules_subdir>/`.
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