This PR is raised to implement update of existing Nios Zone and Network objects (#44118)

* to resolve issue 43658

* removing unused variable

lib/ansible/module_utils/net_tools/nios/api.py

@@ -213,10 +213,8 @@ class WapiModule(WapiBase):
 
         obj_filter = dict([(k, self.module.params[k]) for k, v in iteritems(ib_spec) if v.get('ib_req')])
 
-        if('name' in obj_filter):
-            ib_obj_ref, update, new_name = self.get_object_ref(ib_obj_type, obj_filter, ib_spec)
-        else:
-            ib_obj_ref = self.get_object(ib_obj_type, obj_filter.copy(), return_fields=ib_spec.keys())
+        # get object reference
+        ib_obj_ref, update, new_name = self.get_object_ref(self.module, ib_obj_type, obj_filter, ib_spec)
 
         if ib_obj_ref:
             current_object = ib_obj_ref[0]
@@ -324,10 +322,13 @@ class WapiModule(WapiBase):
 
         return True
 
-    def get_object_ref(self, ib_obj_type, obj_filter, ib_spec):
-        ''' this function gets and returns the current object based on name/old_name passed'''
+    def get_object_ref(self, module, ib_obj_type, obj_filter, ib_spec):
+        ''' this function gets the reference object of pre-existing nios objects '''
+
         update = False
         old_name = new_name = None
+        if ('name' in obj_filter):
+            # gets and returns the current object based on name/old_name passed
             try:
                 name_obj = self.module._check_type_dict(obj_filter['name'])
                 old_name = name_obj['old_name']
@@ -358,6 +359,16 @@ class WapiModule(WapiBase):
             else:
                 test_obj_filter = dict([('name', name)])
             ib_obj = self.get_object(ib_obj_type, test_obj_filter.copy(), return_fields=ib_spec.keys())
+        elif (ib_obj_type == NIOS_ZONE):
+            # del key 'restart_if_needed' as nios_zone get_object fails with the key present
+            temp = ib_spec['restart_if_needed']
+            del ib_spec['restart_if_needed']
+            ib_obj = self.get_object(ib_obj_type, obj_filter.copy(), return_fields=ib_spec.keys())
+            # reinstate restart_if_needed key if it's set to true in play
+            if module.params['restart_if_needed']:
+                ib_spec['restart_if_needed'] = temp
+        else:
+            ib_obj = self.get_object(ib_obj_type, obj_filter.copy(), return_fields=ib_spec.keys())
         return ib_obj, update, new_name
 
     def on_update(self, proposed_object, ib_spec):