When this module was written back in May 2015 we were using 1.9.x. Being lazy I added to param the objects that the other functions would need. What I have noticed is in 2.0 exit_json is trying to jsonify those complex objects and failing. This PR resolves that issue with the vmware_dvswitch module.
@kamsz reported this issue in https://github.com/ansible/ansible-modules-extras/pull/1568
Playbook
```
- name: Create dvswitch
local_action:
module: vmware_dvswitch
hostname: "{{ mgmt_ip_address }}"
username: "{{ vcsa_user }}"
password: "{{ vcsa_pass }}"
datacenter_name: "{{ mgmt_vdc }}"
switch_name: dvSwitch
mtu: 1500
uplink_quantity: 2
discovery_proto: lldp
discovery_operation: both
state: present
```
Module Testing
```
TASK [Create dvswitch] *********************************************************
task path: /opt/autodeploy/projects/emmet/tasks/deploy/dvs_network.yml:3
ESTABLISH LOCAL CONNECTION FOR USER: root
localhost EXEC ( umask 22 && mkdir -p "$( echo $HOME/.ansible/tmp/ansible-tmp-1454693792.01-113207408596014 )" && echo "$( echo $HOME/.ansible/tmp/ansible-tmp-1454693792.01-113207408596014 )" )
localhost PUT /tmp/tmptb3e2c TO /root/.ansible/tmp/ansible-tmp-1454693792.01-113207408596014/vmware_dvswitch
localhost EXEC LANG=en_US.UTF-8 LC_ALL=en_US.UTF-8 LC_MESSAGES=en_US.UTF-8 /usr/bin/python /root/.ansible/tmp/ansible-tmp-1454693792.01-113207408596014/vmware_dvswitch; rm -rf "/root/.ansible/tmp/ansible-tmp-1454693792.01-113207408596014/" > /dev/null 2>&1
changed: [foundation-vcsa -> localhost] => {"changed": true, "invocation": {"module_args": {"datacenter_name": "Test-Lab", "discovery_operation": "both", "discovery_proto": "lldp", "hostname": "172.27.0.100", "mtu": 1500, "password": "VALUE_SPECIFIED_IN_NO_LOG_PARAMETER", "state": "present", "switch_name": "dvSwitch", "uplink_quantity": 2, "username": "root"}, "module_name": "vmware_dvswitch"}, "result": "'vim.dvs.VmwareDistributedVirtualSwitch:dvs-9'"}
```
dnf: name=PACKAGE state=latest is reponsible for two use cases:
- to install a package if not already installed.
- to update the package to the latest if already installed.
The latter use cases is not handled properly as base.upgrade does not
throw dnf.exceptions.MarkingError if a package is not installed.
Setting base.conf.best = True ensures a package is installed or
updated to the latest when calling base.install.
Sign-off: jsilhan@redhat.com
Sign-off: jchaloup@redhat.com
While returning puppet logs as ansible stdout is useful in some cases,
there are also cases where it's more destructive than helpful. For
those, local logging to syslog so that the ansible logging makes sense
is very useful.
This defaults to stdout so that behavior does not change for people.
The bigip_api method was changed in the module_utils function definition
to include the validate_certs option but the bigip_virtual_server module
was not updated accordingly. This patch updates the method so that the
error message below is not returned to the user
received exception: bigip_api() takes exactly 4 arguments (3 given)
Matt Martz