Add a jsonarg type to arg spec (#15701)

This makes sure that if we get a list or dict that it is turned into
a jsonified string.
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Toshio Kuratomi 2016-05-03 07:21:00 -07:00 committed by Brian Coca
parent 52a714143f
commit 3f104dcee9

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@ -609,6 +609,7 @@ class AnsibleModule(object):
'float': self._check_type_float,
'path': self._check_type_path,
'raw': self._check_type_raw,
'jsonarg': self._check_type_jsonarg,
}
if not bypass_checks:
self._check_required_arguments()
@ -1395,6 +1396,16 @@ class AnsibleModule(object):
value = self._check_type_str(value)
return os.path.expanduser(os.path.expandvars(value))
def _check_type_jsonarg(self, value):
# Return a jsonified string. Sometimes the controller turns a json
# string into a dict/list so transform it back into json here
if isinstance(value, (unicode, bytes)):
return value
else:
if isinstance(value (list, tuple, dict)):
return json.dumps(value)
raise TypeError('%s cannot be converted to a json string' % type(value))
def _check_type_raw(self, value):
return value