Can custom plugins access extra_vars?

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There is a comment on an Ansible GitHub issue suggesting that an inventory plugin can access extra vars from a custom plugin, but the issue was closed without any details being added.

I have an inventory plugin and a lookup plugin and I’d like both to be able to use extra vars. Both share configuration values which I’d like to specify just once, and an extra_vars would be preferable to environment variables.

Can anyone provide an example of how to do this, if it is possible?

https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/10282#issuecomment-469707256

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lookups get 'all vars' for templating, so extra vars are already
available, for an inventory plugin, the code needs to request them via
vars manager, see existing plugins for examples.