From 73766e08168c23b74e71c7d8e86ad517d9ba5e6c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Mark Janssen -- Sig-I/O Automatisering <mark@sig-io.nl>
Date: Fri, 25 Mar 2016 15:24:48 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] Add ip4_hex filter to convert ip-address to hex notation

---
 lib/ansible/plugins/filter/ipaddr.py | 7 ++++++-
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/lib/ansible/plugins/filter/ipaddr.py b/lib/ansible/plugins/filter/ipaddr.py
index 432de6031b1..7ea55b30ad7 100644
--- a/lib/ansible/plugins/filter/ipaddr.py
+++ b/lib/ansible/plugins/filter/ipaddr.py
@@ -670,7 +670,11 @@ def _need_netaddr(f_name, *args, **kwargs):
     raise errors.AnsibleFilterError('The {0} filter requires python-netaddr be'
             ' installed on the ansible controller'.format(f_name))
 
-# ---- Ansible filters ----
+def ip4_hex(arg):
+    ''' Convert an IPv4 address to Hexadecimal notation '''
+    numbers = list(map(int, arg.split('.')))
+    return '{:02x}{:02x}{:02x}{:02x}'.format(*numbers)
+
 
 class FilterModule(object):
     ''' IP address and network manipulation filters '''
@@ -683,6 +687,7 @@ class FilterModule(object):
         'ipsubnet': ipsubnet,
         'nthhost': nthhost,
         'slaac': slaac,
+        'ip4_hex': ip4_hex,
 
         # MAC / HW addresses
         'hwaddr': hwaddr,