Attempting to install elasticsearch plugins results in error "msg: implementation error: unknown type path requested for plugin_bin"

[Sean Meacher]

Hi,

I'm attempting to automate the creation of elasticsearch nodes via ansible, using the appropriate module.

in the yml I have:

      - name: add elasticsearch plugins

        elasticsearch_plugin: state=present name="license" 
also tried:

        elasticsearch_plugin: state=present name="elasticsearch/license" 
(as those worked manually)

What I get with debug output is this:

failed: [elasticsearch05] => {"failed": true}

msg: implementation error: unknown type path requested for plugin_bin


What I've found in the plugin source file (checked out from github)
/usr/share/ansible_modules/packaging/elasticsearch_plugin.py

is this:

    plugin_bin:

        description:

            - Location of the plugin binary

        required: False

        default: /usr/share/elasticsearch/bin/plugin

which looks ok...

Is there something obvious I'm missing?..
This is all on ubuntu 14.04

Thanks,

Sean