In "status: present" playbook execution for a VDO volume that is
absent, all of the parameters that are given in the playbook are
issued to the "vdo create" command, therefore any parameters that
become "unrecognized" will result in the "vdo" command returning an
error with the message "unrecognized arguments", which can then be
relayed back to the user. This is a gracefully handled failure case.
Examples of "unrecognized" parameters are new features that are not
yet in the current version of VDO, or features that were removed
since the current version of VDO.
In "status: present" playbook execution for a VDO volume that is
already present, the same behavior as the "creation" stage of the
module should occur, but doesn't occur, since the key strings for
the "vdo status" output of the parameter do not exist. This results
in a KeyError on the parameter that no longer exists.
Therefore, use "if statfield in processedvdos[desiredvdo]:" to filter
the modifiable parameters with the ones that are supported in this
VDO version, then use "if statfield not in processedvdos[desiredvdo]:"
to evade the KeyError, and add the "unsupported" parameters.
Also, instead of using the "currentvdoparams" dictionary, which
filters only the parameters reported by the "vdo status" output, use
the "modtrans" dictionary, which contains all of the possible
parameters. Therefore, if the playbook specifies an "unsupported"
parameter, let it be passed on to the "vdo" command, to display an
actionable error message.
This fixes https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/54556
Signed-off-by: Bryan Gurney <bgurney@redhat.com>
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