vmware_category - tag category creation doesnt associate category types in 6.7

[ImranJMughal]

SUMMARY

associable_object_types are incorrect for 6.7 VC.

ISSUE TYPE

• Bug Report

COMPONENT NAME

vmware_category in 0.4.1-dev8

ANSIBLE VERSION

ansible 2.9.9
  config file = /etc/ansible/ansible.cfg
  configured module search path = [u'/root/.ansible/plugins/modules', u'/usr/share/ansible/plugins/modules']
  ansible python module location = /usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/ansible
  executable location = /usr/local/bin/ansible
  python version = 2.7.12 (default, Oct  8 2019, 14:14:10) [GCC 5.4.0 20160609]

CONFIGURATION

OS / ENVIRONMENT

STEPS TO REPRODUCE

associable_object_types=dict(
type='list',
choices=[
'All objects', 'Folder', 'Cluster',
'Datacenter', 'Datastore', 'Datastore Cluster',
'Distributed Port Group', 'Distributed Switch',
'Host', 'Content Library', 'Library item', 'Network',
'Resource Pool', 'vApp', 'Virtual Machine',

These are incorrect in 6.7 . For example Virtual Machine should be VirtualMachine and Cluster should be ClusterComputeResource.

6.7 shows the types as: - ClusterComputeResource, DistributedVirtualSwitch, VmwareDistributedVirtualSwitch, LibraryItem, ResourcePool, Folder, HostNetwork, DistributedVirtualPortgroup, VirtualApp, StoragePod, Datastore, Network, Datacenter, Library, HostSystem, OpaqueNetwork, VirtualMachine

- hosts: localhost
  connection: local
  tasks:
   - include_vars:
       dir: 'vars/'
   - name: Create Cluster Tag Category
     vmware_category:
       hostname: "{{ vcenter_hostname }}"
       username: "{{ vcenter_username }}"
       password: "{{ vcenter_password }}"
       category_name: "{{ item.cat }}"
       category_cardinality: "{{ item.catcard }}"
       validate_certs: 'false'
       associable_object_types:
         - "{{ item.cattype }}"
       state: present
     with_items:
       - { cat: DemoClusterCategory, catcard: multiple, cattype: "Cluster" }
       - { cat: DemoVMCategory, catcard: multiple, cattype: "Virtual Machine" }
     register: category
     delegate_to: localhost

EXPECTED RESULTS

Tag category created with associated types checked in gui

ACTUAL RESULTS

Tag Created with no associated type

[ImranJMughal]

as a test i've altered "Virtual Machine" to "VirtualMachine" and "Cluster" to "ClusterComputeResource" and this has worked on the tag category creation doing this

- hosts: localhost
  connection: local
  tasks:
   - include_vars:
       dir: 'vars/'
   - name: Create Cluster Tag Category
     vmware_category:
       hostname: "{{ vcenter_hostname }}"
       username: "{{ vcenter_username }}"
       password: "{{ vcenter_password }}"
       category_name: "{{ item.cat }}"
       category_cardinality: "{{ item.catcard }}"
       validate_certs: 'false'
       associable_object_types:
         - "{{ item.cattype }}"
       state: present
     with_items:
       - { cat: DemoClusterCategory, catcard: multiple, cattype: "ClusterComputeResource" }
       - { cat: DemoVMCategory, catcard: multiple, cattype: "VirtualMachine" }
     register: category
     delegate_to: localhost

[Akasurde]

resolved_by_pr #206

[Akasurde]

@ImranJMughal This issue is partly due to vCenter/vSphere Automation SDK bug. Since both of them does not restrict any string other than VMware resource object type.

here, I am creating an object ThisisVMwareObject and still, it accepts this associable type.