action plugin vs module

[cdar z]

Could You help and tell me the difference between an action plugin and a module? Why is an action plugin 'synchronize' and a module 'synchronize' at the same time? Thanks.

[J Hawkesworth]

See 

http://docs.ansible.com/intro_configuration.html#action-plugins

In essence, action plugins provide services to modules and are used for various things including the abilty to let different modules share logic.  Modules provide a mechanism with a defined interface.  For example the ability to copy files to a remote machine is a useful capability for lots of modules (template, unarchive), so the action plugins let other modules use the logic in the copy module.

[cdar z]

So if I'm understanding it right, synchronize module should invoke synchronize action plugin to meet DRY principle.

module synchronize.py
action_plugin synchronize.py

[Michael DeHaan]

Action plugins call modules of the same name sometimes, not the other way around.

This has nothing to do with "Don't Repeat Yourself".

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