Improved error reporting when specifying inventories

fboender · Jan 7, 2017 · 54cec2a · 54cec2a
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diff --git a/CHANGELOG.txt b/CHANGELOG.txt
@@ -1,9 +1,10 @@
 v1.19   2017-01-07
 
-- Always show stacktrace on error and include class name.
+- Always show stack trace on error and include class name.
 - Exit with proper exit codes.
 - Exclude certain file extensions from consideration as inventories.
 - Improved error reporting and lookups of templates.
+- Improved error reporting when specifying inventories.
 
 v1.18   2016-12-07
 

diff --git a/src/ansiblecmdb/ansible.py b/src/ansiblecmdb/ansible.py
@@ -65,7 +65,7 @@ def _handle_inventory(self, inventory_path):
 
                 self._handle_inventory(os.path.join(inventory_path, fname))
         else:
-            sys.stderr.write("Not a file or directory: '{}'\n".format(inventory_path))
+            raise IOError("Invalid inventory file / dir: '{}'".format(inventory_path))
         self._parse_hostvar_dir(inventory_path)
 
     def _parse_hosts_inventory(self, inventory_path):