New module: xmlrpc_client

[stemid]

SUMMARY

It's the most basic xmlrpc API client that forwards any call to the API along with positional arguments and keyword arguments. This way the ansible user can decide how to use the xmlrpc api along with the relevant API docs.

ISSUE TYPE

• New Module Pull Request

COMPONENT NAME

lib/ansible/modules/commands/xmlrpc_client

ANSIBLE VERSION

ansible 2.4.0 (xmlrpc_client-module 5224579d9e) last updated 2017/08/11 16:08:55 (GMT +200)
  config file = None
  configured module search path = ['/home/stemid/.ansible/plugins/modules', '/usr/share/ansible/plugins/modules']
  ansible python module location = /home/stemid/Utveckling/ansible/lib/ansible
  executable location = /home/stemid/Utveckling/ansible/bin/ansible
  python version = 3.6.2 (default, Jul 19 2017, 13:09:21) [GCC 7.1.1 20170622 (Red Hat 7.1.1-3)]

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

I have an API internally where this module helps a lot because it lets me use ansible for the entire deployment process.

Looking at other ansible modules for xmlrpc APIs I can see that a basic xmlrpc client module would be able to perform their tasks as well but with less abstractions between the user and the API.

I wasn't sure which category to put the module in. I'm sure people will have issue with placing it under commands, in that case just know that I have no problem with moving it to another category if a more suitable one can be found.

I have run sanity checks and there is only one unresolved issue.

ERROR: lib/ansible/modules/commands/xmlrpc_client.py:0:0: E316 ANSIBLE_METADATA.metadata_version: not a valid value for dictionary value @ data['metadata_version']. Got '1.0'

The docs say to use 1.0 so I can't resolve that.

This module will become more useful once #23943 is resolved. Until then this use will not send integer to the backend API.

my_var: 2

- name: xmlrpc api call
  xmlrpc_client:
    args:
      - "{{my_var | int}}"

[MeganLiu]

ANSIBLE_METADATA should be "1.1" (not 1.0 anymore)

[Akasurde]

Please submit a new module request to https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general. Thanks for your contribution.