From a3cc24efb2438e920dcf0d5934a5bb85606ef9d1 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Peter Sprygada <psprygada@ansible.com>
Date: Wed, 11 Jan 2017 07:51:00 -0500
Subject: [PATCH] adds get_block_config() method to NetworkConfig

new method that will return the config block string for the
specified config path
---
 lib/ansible/module_utils/netcfg.py | 4 ++++
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)

diff --git a/lib/ansible/module_utils/netcfg.py b/lib/ansible/module_utils/netcfg.py
index 731492ef112..a895e5620da 100644
--- a/lib/ansible/module_utils/netcfg.py
+++ b/lib/ansible/module_utils/netcfg.py
@@ -224,6 +224,10 @@ class NetworkConfig(object):
             raise ValueError('path does not exist in config')
         return self._expand_block(obj)
 
+    def get_block_config(self, path):
+        block = self.get_block(path)
+        return dumps(block, 'config')
+
     def _expand_block(self, configobj, S=None):
         if S is None:
             S = list()