alicloud: About using inventory plugin

[lixue323]

SUMMARY

I built and installed the collection locally alibaba.alicloud

Directory Structure
alibaba.alicloud

• plugins
  • inventory
    • alicloud_ecs.py

when I tested my inventory plugin, I got infos below:

[WARNING]: Failed to load inventory plugin, skipping alicloud_ecs
[WARNING]:  * Failed to parse /Users/lixue/Desktop/project3/alibaba.alicloud/plugins/inventory/alicloud.yml with auto
plugin: inventory config '/Users/lixue/Desktop/project3/alibaba.alicloud/plugins/inventory/alicloud.yml' specifies unknown
plugin 'alicloud_ecs'

this is my alicloud.yaml

plugin: alicloud_ecs     # if write `alibaba.alicloud.alicloud_ecs`,  still can't load inventory plugin
regions:
  - cn-beijing

so, I want to known how can i use inventory plugin by collection

ANSIBLE VERSION

2.9

COMPONENT NAME

ali_instance

ISSUE TYPE

• Bug Report

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• plugins/modules/cloud/alicloud/ali_instance.py

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[gundalow]

@lixue323 Hi, thank you for taking the time to raise this bug report.

1. How exactly did you build the collection, could you please provide the command line you used
2. Is the source code for the collection available somewhere?

[lixue323]

@gundalow
ansible-galaxy collection build
ansible-galaxy collection install alibaba-alicloud-1.0.0.tar.gz --ignore-certs
ansible-inventory -i alicloud.yml --graph

Developed according to this document https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/dev_guide/developing_collections.html#id22

There is no problem with the use of modules, but the above problems will occur with the use of plugin inventory

[Akasurde]

@lixue323 You may want to change this line alibaba/alibaba.alicloud#272 (comment) to read as

    NAME = 'alibaba.alicloud.alicloud_ecs'

and refer this in your inventory in

plugin: alibaba.alicloud.alicloud_ecs
regions:
  - cn-beijing

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[Akasurde]

Inventory plugin is moved to https://github.com/alibaba/alibaba.alicloud. Closing this issue.