ansible-galaxy message ERROR! Invalid collection name should specify reason collection name is invalid

[joelwking]

SUMMARY

The written documentation for ansible-galaxy and the error message from the program does not offer the user useful information regarding invalid characters in the collection name.

For example, underscores are permitted in the collection name, but dashes are not.

ISSUE TYPE

• Documentation Report

COMPONENT NAME

ansible-galaxy

ANSIBLE VERSION

ansible-galaxy 2.9.1
  config file = /home/administrator/ansible/playbooks/ansible.cfg
  configured module search path = [u'/usr/share/ansible', u'/home/administrator/ansible/playbooks/library']
  ansible python module location = /usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/ansible
  executable location = /usr/bin/ansible-galaxy
  python version = 2.7.12 (default, Oct  8 2019, 14:14:10) [GCC 5.4.0 20160609]

CONFIGURATION

N/A

OS / ENVIRONMENT

N/A

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

$ ansible-galaxy collection init joelwking.ansible-mongodb -f
ERROR! Invalid collection name 'joelwking.ansible-mongodb', name must be in the format <namespace>.<collection>.

$ ansible-galaxy collection init joelwking.mongodb -f
- Collection joelwking.mongodb was created successfully

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Files identified in the description:

• lib/ansible/galaxy

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