Chris,

You nailed it in one!! thanks for heads up!


On Thursday, 12 February 2015 08:09:46 UTC, Chris Church wrote:
>
> Create an empty mymodule.py file alongside mymodule.ps1; that should allow 
> the playbook to determine that mymodule is a valid module name.
>
> Previously discussed here: 
> https://groups.google.com/d/topic/ansible-project/FMlVKR9gDS8/discussion
>
>
> On Wed, Feb 11, 2015 at 1:15 PM, Ian Clegg <[email protected] 
> <javascript:>> wrote:
>
>> Hi everyone,
>>
>> I wonder if anyone has hit this issue. I just upgraded to ansible 1.8.2 
>> and a set of windows playbooks is no longer working. These playbooks _do_ 
>> work with the previous version we had; there seem to be some issues around 
>> this at the moment.
>>
>> The problem appears to be related to how ansible locates custom 
>> powershell modules defined in a roles library.
>>
>> Lets look at how the play is laid out, its quite simple:
>>
>> */roles/myrole/tasks/main.yml*
>> - name: Run my custom module
>>   mymodule: myparam='hello world'
>>
>> */roles/myrole/library/mymodule.ps1*
>> ... a custom powershell module
>>
>> */myplay.yml*
>> - name: MYROLE
>>   hosts: my-servers
>>   gather_facts: no
>>   vars_files:
>>     - "{{versions_vars_file}}"
>>     - "{{environment_vars_file}}"
>>   roles:
>>     - myrole
>>
>> lets invoke ansible:
>> ansible-playbook -i inventory myplay.yml -c winrm
>>
>> ERROR: mymodule is not a legal parameter in an Ansible task or handler
>>
>> This worked in 1.7.x
>>
>> I should point out that I am setting both 'ansible_connection' to winrm 
>> and passing '-c winrm' in the command line. I would expect powershell 
>> modules to be found. 
>>
>> This seems to be a bug in how find_plugin() in /ansible/utils/plugins.py 
>> is invoked. When I patched the function to log the value of transport 
>> parameter I got:
>> transport:     ['.py']
>> transport:     ['.py', '']
>> transport:     ['.py', '']
>> So it was an empty string and the suffix was always '.py'.
>>
>> If I patch the 1.8.2 find_plugin() function to add '.ps1' to the suffix 
>> list (even when transport is empty) then my problem goes away - I guess, 
>> that transport should probably not be empty?
>>
>> Thanks
>> Ian
>>
>>
>>
>>
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