From 072ad6f1863a5daa6f128178b055554b50db41a2 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Kevin Veen-Birkenbach <kevin@veen.world>
Date: Fri, 11 Jul 2025 10:15:58 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] Removed load button

---
 .gitignore                 |  3 +-
 cli/generate/roles_list.py | 65 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 2 files changed, 67 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
 create mode 100644 cli/generate/roles_list.py

diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index ee603803..c5bd2756 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -3,4 +3,5 @@ site.retry
 venv
 *.log
 *.bak
-*tree.json
\ No newline at end of file
+*tree.json
+roles/list.json
diff --git a/cli/generate/roles_list.py b/cli/generate/roles_list.py
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..40a2bb4a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/cli/generate/roles_list.py
@@ -0,0 +1,65 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env python3
+"""
+Generate a JSON file listing all Ansible role directories.
+
+Usage:
+  python roles_list.py [--roles-dir path/to/roles] [--output path/to/roles/list.json | console]
+"""
+import os
+import json
+import argparse
+
+
+def find_roles(roles_dir: str):
+    """Return sorted list of role names under roles_dir."""
+    return sorted([
+        entry for entry in os.listdir(roles_dir)
+        if os.path.isdir(os.path.join(roles_dir, entry))
+    ])
+
+
+def write_roles_list(roles, out_file):
+    """Write the list of roles to out_file as JSON."""
+    os.makedirs(os.path.dirname(out_file), exist_ok=True)
+    with open(out_file, 'w', encoding='utf-8') as f:
+        json.dump(roles, f, indent=2)
+    print(f"Wrote roles list to {out_file}")
+
+
+def main():
+    # Determine default roles_dir relative to this script: ../../.. -> roles
+    script_dir = os.path.dirname(os.path.abspath(__file__))
+    default_roles_dir = os.path.abspath(
+        os.path.join(script_dir, '..', '..', 'roles')
+    )
+    default_output = os.path.join(default_roles_dir, 'list.json')
+
+    parser = argparse.ArgumentParser(description='Generate roles/list.json')
+    parser.add_argument(
+        '--roles-dir', '-r',
+        default=default_roles_dir,
+        help=f'Directory containing role subfolders (default: {default_roles_dir})'
+    )
+    parser.add_argument(
+        '--output', '-o',
+        default=default_output,
+        help=(
+            'Output path for roles list JSON ' 
+            '(or "console" to print to stdout, default: %(default)s)'
+        )
+    )
+    args = parser.parse_args()
+
+    if not os.path.isdir(args.roles_dir):
+        parser.error(f"Roles directory not found: {args.roles_dir}")
+
+    roles = find_roles(args.roles_dir)
+
+    if args.output.lower() == 'console':
+        # Print JSON to stdout
+        print(json.dumps(roles, indent=2))
+    else:
+        write_roles_list(roles, args.output)
+
+if __name__ == '__main__':
+    main()