structured input to hash

[ogaida]

good morning to japan,

this is a kind of feature request. If you like, i could make a pull request, please tell me.

when i try to use an attribute of the the type hash in my module and the hash data are coming from a play, i always get a kind of a json string.

for example:

if i use:

class Demo < AnsibleModule
  attribute :data, Hash

with a play like this:

  - name: structured data test
    demo:
      data:
        users:
          gaida:
            alias: Oliver Gaida
            password: myStrongPassword

if i check later the class-type of @data it is always a string, but a hash is expected.

To change this behavior, i have changed the params function in the ansible_module libary to this:

    def params
      return @params if @params
      @params = ActiveSupport::HashWithIndifferentAccess.new
      File.open(ARGV[0]) do |fh|
        @params.update JSON.parse(fh.read())
      end
    end

but than they module has to tell ansible, that it needs the modules parameters in json format. see https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/dev_guide/developing_program_flow_modules.html#non-native-want-json-modules
for this to work you have to put # WANT_JSON anywhere in the model-file:

#!/usr/bin/ruby

require 'ansible_module'
# WANT_JSON

class Demo < AnsibleModule

as a side-affect, there is no need for the shellwords module anymore.

kind regards
Oliver

[kuroda]

@ogaida

Sorry for late reply!

Please make your PR.

[ogaida]

Have you seen my pr?

[ogaida]

It would be really great, if you could do the merge . Thx