Several fixes for includesfixing_includes

* when including statically, make sure that all parents were also included
  statically (issue #16990)
* properly resolve nested static include paths
* print a message when a file is statically included

Fixes #16990

1 files changed, 16 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/lib/ansible/playbook/block.py b/lib/ansible/playbook/block.py
index ec6298a2c1..14519d8162 100644
--- a/lib/ansible/playbook/block.py
+++ b/lib/ansible/playbook/block.py
@@ -374,3 +374,19 @@ class Block(Base, Become, Conditional, Taggable):
             return self._parent.get_include_params()
         else:
             return dict()
+
+    def all_parents_static(self):
+        '''
+        Determine if all of the parents of this block were statically loaded
+        or not. Since Task/TaskInclude objects may be in the chain, they simply
+        call their parents all_parents_static() method. Only Block objects in
+        the chain check the statically_loaded value of the parent.
+        '''
+        from ansible.playbook.task_include import TaskInclude
+        if self._parent:
+            if isinstance(self._parent, TaskInclude) and not self._parent.statically_loaded:
+                return False
+            return self._parent.all_parents_static()
+
+        return True
+