Have an alias to use dryrun=True instead of test=True

[arthurzenika]

Description of Issue/Question

Some new salt users I came across told me that the test=True could be confusing and would prefer to have a more standard dryrun terminology for what test=True does in salt. I thought I'd start the discussion here about having an alias that does this.

Is it technically difficult to have an alias for dryrun=test which adds test=True early enough to provide such a functionality ?

Doing a grep for dryrun in the code I find that some states already use this argument so if we go down that road we need to make sure they don't break (pkgng, rsync, dockermod)

[garethgreenaway]

@thatch45 Would you weighing in on this one?

[thatch45]

dryrun or dry_run or no-op etc would all be good options here. All we would need to do to add an alias is just take the argument to state.apply/highstate/sls/high/low/pkg/top/sls_id functions, would be to add this:

def apply(mods=None, **kwargs):
    if 'dryrun' in kwargs:
        kwargs['test'] = kwargs.pop('dryrun')

then it would be 100% safe, the trick would be to pop the key from the kwargs

[garethgreenaway]

@thatch45 Thanks! Adding the Feature label.

[thatch45]

Yes, this is something that would take all of 15 minutes to add and we should have added it long ago

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