Add diff capability in vyos edit_config (#41950)

* Add diff capability in vyos edit_config

Fetch onbox diff within edit_config cliconf
plugin and return it in response

* Remove diff returned from ios edit_config

* Fix CI failure

* More CI fixes

lib/ansible/module_utils/network/vyos/vyos.py

@@ -133,10 +133,9 @@ def load_config(module, commands, commit=False, comment=None):
     connection = get_connection(module)
 
     try:
-        resp = connection.edit_config(candidate=commands, commit=commit, diff=module._diff, comment=comment)
+        resp = connection.edit_config(candidate=commands, commit=commit, comment=comment)
         resp = json.loads(resp)
-        diff_config = resp.get('diff')
     except ConnectionError as exc:
         module.fail_json(msg=to_text(exc))
 
-    return diff_config
+    return resp.get('diff')

lib/ansible/plugins/cliconf/__init__.py

@@ -203,8 +203,6 @@ class CliconfBase(with_metaclass(ABCMeta, object)):
 
         :param replace: Boolean flag to indicate if running configuration should be completely
                         replace by candidate configuration.
-        :param diff: Boolean flag to indicate if configuration that is applied on remote host should
-                     generated and returned in response or not
         :param comment: Commit comment provided it is supported by remote host
         :return: Returns a json string with contains configuration applied on remote host, the returned
                  response on executing configuration commands and platform relevant data.

lib/ansible/plugins/cliconf/ios.py

@@ -124,7 +124,7 @@ class Cliconf(CliconfBase):
         return json.dumps(diff)
 
     @enable_mode
-    def edit_config(self, candidate=None, commit=True, replace=False, diff=False, comment=None):
+    def edit_config(self, candidate=None, commit=True, replace=False, comment=None):
         resp = {}
         if not candidate:
             raise ValueError("must provide a candidate config to load")
@@ -151,11 +151,6 @@ class Cliconf(CliconfBase):
 
             results.append(self.send_command('end'))
 
-        diff_config = None
-        if diff:
-            diff_config = candidate
-
-        resp['diff'] = diff_config
         resp['response'] = results[1:-1]
         return json.dumps(resp)
 

lib/ansible/plugins/cliconf/vyos.py

@@ -19,6 +19,7 @@
 from __future__ import (absolute_import, division, print_function)
 __metaclass__ = type
 
+import collections
 import re
 import json
 
@@ -60,7 +61,7 @@ class Cliconf(CliconfBase):
             out = self.send_command('show configuration commands')
         return out
 
-    def edit_config(self, candidate=None, commit=True, replace=False, diff=False, comment=None):
+    def edit_config(self, candidate=None, commit=True, replace=False, comment=None):
         resp = {}
         if not candidate:
             raise ValueError('must provide a candidate config to load')
@@ -78,15 +79,16 @@ class Cliconf(CliconfBase):
         results = []
 
         for cmd in chain(['configure'], to_list(candidate)):
-            results.append(self.send_command(cmd))
+            if not isinstance(cmd, collections.Mapping):
+                cmd = {'command': cmd}
+
+            results.append(self.send_command(**cmd))
 
-        diff_config = None
-        if diff:
         out = self.get('compare')
         out = to_text(out, errors='surrogate_or_strict')
-            if not out.startswith('No changes'):
-                diff_config = out
+        diff_config = out if not out.startswith('No changes') else None
 
+        if diff_config:
             if commit:
                 try:
                     self.commit(comment)
@@ -98,9 +100,11 @@ class Cliconf(CliconfBase):
                     self.get('exit')
             else:
                 self.discard_changes()
+        else:
+            self.get('exit')
 
         resp['diff'] = diff_config
-        resp['response'] = results[1:]
+        resp['response'] = results[1:-1]
         return json.dumps(resp)
 
     def get(self, command=None, prompt=None, answer=None, sendonly=False):