- clarify docs on body_json behaviour
- only tranform into json if body input is not a string
users keep passing json string and expecint it to not be jsonified again
- fixed issue with removes not handling path expansion correctly
- switched all path variables to 'type path' to handle expansions
body_format is a new optional argument that enables handling of JSON or
YAML serialization format for the body argument.
When set to either 'json' or 'yaml', the body argument can be a dict or list.
The body will be encoded, and the Content-Type HTTP header will be set,
accordingly to the body_format argument.
Example:
- name: Facette - Create memory graph
uri:
method: POST
url: http://facette/api/v1/library/graphs
status_code: 201
body_format: json
body:
name: "{{ ansible_fqdn }} - Memory usage"
attributes:
Source": "{{ ansible_fqdn }}"
link: "1947a490-8ac6-4bf2-47c1-ff74272f8b32"
When using the "creates" option with the uri module, set changed
to False if the file already exists. This behavior is consistent with
other modules which use "creates", such as command and shell.
consider the following response body (content) of a REST/JSON webservice containing escaped quotation marks:
```json
{ "key": "\"works\"" }
```
decoding this string not as raw will lose the backslash as JSON escape. later json.loads will fail to parse.
Inspired by [this thread](https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/ansible-project/kymtiloDme4) on the mailing list and the following python shell code:
```python
import json
string=r'{ "key": "\"works\"" }'
json.loads(string)
json.loads(string.decode('raw_unicode_escape'))
json.loads(string.decode('unicode_escape'))
```
