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_dvs_portgroup module.
@kamsz reported this issue in https://github.com/ansible/ansible-modules-extras/pull/1568
Playbook
```
- name: Create Management portgroup
local_action:
module: vmware_dvs_portgroup
hostname: "{{ mgmt_ip_address }}"
username: "{{ vcsa_user }}"
password: "{{ vcsa_pass }}"
portgroup_name: Management
switch_name: dvSwitch
vlan_id: "{{ hostvars[groups['foundation_esxi'][0]].mgmt_vlan_id }}"
num_ports: 120
portgroup_type: earlyBinding
state: present
```
Module Testing
```
TASK [Create Management portgroup] *********************************************
task path: /opt/autodeploy/projects/emmet/tasks/deploy/dvs_network.yml:17
ESTABLISH LOCAL CONNECTION FOR USER: root
localhost EXEC ( umask 22 && mkdir -p "$( echo $HOME/.ansible/tmp/ansible-tmp-1454693809.13-142252676354410 )" && echo "$( echo $HOME/.ansible/tmp/ansible-tmp-1454693809.13-142252676354410 )" )
localhost PUT /tmp/tmpeQ8M1U TO /root/.ansible/tmp/ansible-tmp-1454693809.13-142252676354410/vmware_dvs_portgroup
localhost EXEC LANG=en_US.UTF-8 LC_ALL=en_US.UTF-8 LC_MESSAGES=en_US.UTF-8 /usr/bin/python /root/.ansible/tmp/ansible-tmp-1454693809.13-142252676354410/vmware_dvs_portgroup; rm -rf "/root/.ansible/tmp/ansible-tmp-1454693809.13-142252676354410/" > /dev/null 2>&1
changed: [foundation-vcsa -> localhost] => {"changed": true, "invocation": {"module_args": {"hostname": "172.27.0.100", "num_ports": 120, "password": "VALUE_SPECIFIED_IN_NO_LOG_PARAMETER", "portgroup_name": "Management", "portgroup_type": "earlyBinding", "state": "present", "switch_name": "dvSwitch", "username": "root", "vlan_id": 2700}, "module_name": "vmware_dvs_portgroup"}, "result": "None"}
```
When this module was written back in May 2015 we were using 1.9.x. Being lazy I added to param the objects that the other functions would need. What I have noticed is in 2.0 exit_json is trying to jsonify those complex objects and failing. This PR resolves that issue with the vmware_cluster module.
@kamsz reported this issue in https://github.com/ansible/ansible-modules-extras/pull/1568
Playbook
```
- name: Create Cluster
local_action:
module: vmware_cluster
hostname: "{{ mgmt_ip_address }}"
username: "{{ vcsa_user }}"
password: "{{ vcsa_pass }}"
datacenter_name: "{{ mgmt_vdc }}"
cluster_name: "{{ mgmt_cluster }}"
enable_ha: True
enable_drs: True
enable_vsan: True
```
Module testing
```
TASK [Create Cluster] **********************************************************
task path: /opt/autodeploy/projects/emmet/site_deploy.yml:188
ESTABLISH LOCAL CONNECTION FOR USER: root
localhost EXEC ( umask 22 && mkdir -p "$( echo $HOME/.ansible/tmp/ansible-tmp-1454693788.92-14097560271233 )" && echo "$( echo $HOME/.ansible/tmp/ansible-tmp-1454693788.92-14097560271233 )" )
localhost PUT /tmp/tmpAJfdPb TO /root/.ansible/tmp/ansible-tmp-1454693788.92-14097560271233/vmware_cluster
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-1454693788.92-14097560271233/vmware_cluster; rm -rf "/root/.ansible/tmp/ansible-tmp-1454693788.92-14097560271233/" > /dev/null 2>&1
changed: [foundation-vcsa -> localhost] => {"changed": true, "invocation": {"module_args": {"cluster_name": "Foundation", "datacenter_name": "Test-Lab", "enable_drs": true, "enable_ha": true, "enable_vsan": true, "hostname": "172.27.0.100", "password": "VALUE_SPECIFIED_IN_NO_LOG_PARAMETER", "state": "present", "username": "root"}, "module_name": "vmware_cluster"}}
```
win_uri uses "Invoke-WebRequest" under the covers, which apparently
uses Internet Explorer to parse a webpage. The problem is if a user
has never run Internet Explorer, it will be unable to do that. The
work around for this is to set the "-UseBasicParsing" flag.
The only advantage to having the Internet Explorer parsed page is
that you can then access the DOM as if it was a powershell
argument. That doesn't seem super useful for Ansible to be able
to do, so I set the default to be "-UseBasicParsing"
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'"}
```
Joseph Callen