revert ocalhost getting 'all' vars (#31425)

back to previous implicit localhost behaviour

fixes #31420

(cherry picked from commit a9942353fe)

CHANGELOG.md

@@ -108,6 +108,7 @@ Ansible Changes By Release
 * Fix for win_copy to copy a source file that has invalid windows characters in the filename, the dest still must be have valid windows characters (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/31336#issuecomment-334649927)
 * Fix systemd module to not run daemon-reload in check mode.
 * fixed some parsing and selection issues with inventory manager, fixed minor bugs in yaml and constructed plugins
+* reverted implicit localhost getting vars from 'all' group
 
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lib/ansible/inventory/data.py

@@ -79,9 +79,6 @@ class InventoryData(object):
         else:
             new_host = Host(pattern)
 
-            # use 'all' vars but not part of all group
-            new_host.vars = self.groups['all'].get_vars()
-
             new_host.address = "127.0.0.1"
             new_host.implicit = True
 

lib/ansible/inventory/host.py

@@ -143,7 +143,7 @@ class Host:
         results['inventory_hostname_short'] = self.name.split('.')[0]
         results['group_names'] = sorted([g.name for g in self.get_groups() if g.name != 'all'])
 
-        return combine_vars(self.vars, results)
+        return results
 
     def get_vars(self):
         return combine_vars(self.vars, self.get_magic_vars())

lib/ansible/vars/manager.py

@@ -319,8 +319,9 @@ class VariableManager:
                     data[group] = combine_vars(data[group], _plugins_play(group))
                 return data
 
-            # Merge as per precedence config
+            # Merge groups as per precedence config, if not implicit localhost
             # only allow to call the functions we want exposed
+            if not host.implicit:
                 for entry in C.VARIABLE_PRECEDENCE:
                     if entry in self._ALLOWED:
                         display.debug('Calling %s to load vars for %s' % (entry, host.name))