--host-pattern option required even when specifying pytest.mark.ansible(host_pattern=...) starting with version 24.1.0

[andy-maier]

I have a pytest test function that uses pytest.mark.ansible to specify host_pattern. Up to pytest-ansible version 4.1.1, this was sufficient to have the host pattern specified.

Starting with pytest-ansible version 24.1.0 though, it is in addition required to specify the --host-pattern command line option on the pytest command, even when pytest.mark.ansible specifies host_pattern. If one does not provide this command line option, pytest fails with the following error:

ERROR: Missing required parameter --ansible-host-pattern/--host-pattern

I tracked this change in behavior down to commit 1518c54. That is the first commit that causes the above error message to be displayed when not using the --host-pattern command line option.

Looking at the change of that commit, I was not able to figure out how that could possibly have caused this change.

Can this please be changed again as it was before?