VMware: Avoid misleading PyVmomi error if requests import fails (#47313)

* Avoid misleading PyVmomi error if requests import fails

Requests is imported by the VMware module_utils as an external
dependency; however, because it is in a try/catch block containing the
imports for PyVmomi, if requests fails to import properly, Ansible will
instead complain about PyVmomi not being installed.

By moving the import outside of the try/catch block, if requests fails
to import, an error like the following will be returned:

    ImportError: No module named requests

This should result in less confusion.

* catch requests ImportError
pull/47652/head
Jim Gu 6 years ago committed by Abhijeet Kasurde
parent c649d0ea32
commit 99ee30768a

@ -15,6 +15,11 @@ from random import randint
try:
# requests is required for exception handling of the ConnectionError
import requests
HAS_REQUESTS = True
except ImportError:
HAS_REQUESTS = False
try:
from pyVim import connect
from pyVmomi import vim, vmodl
HAS_PYVMOMI = True
@ -777,6 +782,10 @@ class PyVmomi(object):
"""
Constructor
"""
if not HAS_REQUESTS:
self.module.fail_json(msg="Unable to find 'requests' Python library which is required."
" Please install using 'pip install requests'")
if not HAS_PYVMOMI:
module.fail_json(msg='PyVmomi Python module required. Install using "pip install PyVmomi"')

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