Gather vm´s in a folder results in AttributeError: 'NoneType' object has no attribute 'ipAddress'

[IncredibleRichie]

SUMMARY

Can not gather vms in a folder since i´ve updated our container based on Arch
When i try to execute this in a eg. RHEL it works.
I think the python version could be to "new "

Any hints how to solve this are appreciated

ISSUE TYPE

• Bug Report

COMPONENT NAME

community.vmware.vmware_vm_info:

ANSIBLE VERSION

ansible [core 2.16.0]
python version = 3.11.6 (main, Nov 14 2023, 09:36:21) [GCC 13.2.1 20230801] (/usr/bin/python)
jinja version = 3.1.2

COLLECTION VERSION

community.vmware              4.0.0  

CONFIGURATION

Pipelining and Host key check

OS / ENVIRONMENT

Arch Linux

STEPS TO REPRODUCE

    - name: Gather all VMs from "{{ delfolder }}"
      community.vmware.vmware_vm_info:
        hostname: "{{ vcenter_hostname }}"
        username: "{{ vcenter_username }}"
        password: "{{ vcenter_password }}"
        folder: "{{ delfolder }}"
        validate_certs: false
      delegate_to: localhost
      register: vm_info

EXPECTED RESULTS

Data of all hosts in a folder

ACTUAL RESULTS

An exception occurred during task execution. To see the full traceback, use -vvv. The error was: AttributeError: 'NoneType' object has no attribute 'ipAddress'
fatal: [localhost]: FAILED! => {"changed": false, "module_stderr": "Traceback (most recent call last):\n  File \"<stdin>\", line 107, in <module>\n  File \"<stdin>\", line 99, in _ansiballz_main\n  File \"<stdin>\", line 47, in invoke_module\n  File \"<frozen runpy>\", line 226, in run_module\n  File \"<frozen runpy>\", line 98, in _run_module_code\n  File \"<frozen runpy>\", line 88, in _run_code\n  File \"/tmp/ansible_community.vmware.vmware_vm_info_payload_7c0_zmhh/ansible_community.vmware.vmware_vm_info_payload.zip/ansible_collections/community/vmware/plugins/modules/vmware_vm_info.py\", line 475, in <module>\n  File \"/tmp/ansible_community.vmware.vmware_vm_info_payload_7c0_zmhh/ansible_community.vmware.vmware_vm_info_payload.zip/ansible_collections/community/vmware/plugins/modules/vmware_vm_info.py\", line 469, in main\n  File \"/tmp/ansible_community.vmware.vmware_vm_info_payload_7c0_zmhh/ansible_community.vmware.vmware_vm_info_payload.zip/ansible_collections/community/vmware/plugins/modules/vmware_vm_info.py\", line 355, in get_virtual_machines\nAttributeError: 'NoneType' object has no attribute 'ipAddress'\n", "module_stdout": "", "msg": "MODULE FAILURE\nSee stdout/stderr for the exact error", "rc": 1}

[mariolenz]

This looks familiar.

I'm pretty sure this has been fixed in #1919. Please test with 4.0.1 and, if you still run into this, re-open this issue or open a new one.