Unexpected behavior - bug or user error?

[Don Jackson]

While attempting to use the sysctl module like this:

      sysctl:

        name: vm.swappiness

        value: 0

        state: present

        reload: true

I got the following error:

TASK: [Ensure vm.swappiness is set to 0] **************************************

failed: [mgmt] => {"failed": true, "parsed": false}

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Traceback (most recent call last):

  File "/home/ds/.ansible/tmp/ansible-tmp-1421708908.33-97939341875354/sysctl", line 1899, in <module>

    main()

  File "/home/ds/.ansible/tmp/ansible-tmp-1421708908.33-97939341875354/sysctl", line 327, in main

    result = SysctlModule(module)

  File "/home/ds/.ansible/tmp/ansible-tmp-1421708908.33-97939341875354/sysctl", line 118, in __init__

    self.process()

  File "/home/ds/.ansible/tmp/ansible-tmp-1421708908.33-97939341875354/sysctl", line 128, in process

    self.args['value'] = self._parse_value(self.args['value'])

  File "/home/ds/.ansible/tmp/ansible-tmp-1421708908.33-97939341875354/sysctl", line 188, in _parse_value

    elif value.lower() in BOOLEANS_TRUE:

AttributeError: 'int' object has no attribute 'lower'

If I quote the value, e.g. '0', it then works.

Is this the expected behavior, or is this a bug?

[Brian Coca]

it assumes values are all strings, it is a bug.


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Brian Coca