Module Suffix's and custom windows modules

[Tony Kinsley]

I have a custom windows module that I have been using in my playbooks and I just went to update to the version 1.8.2 ( installed with pip ). I went to run a playbook that I run all the time and got this error:

/usr/local/bin/ansible-playbook -i ./core/inventory.py --module-path ./modules/ ./main.yml

ERROR: win_exe is not a legal parameter in an Ansible task or handler

My module is in a file called win_exe.ps1 ( it's basically just runs a windows command but adds in support for the creates keyword ) located ./modules. I changed the playbook to specify 

- name: install packages

  win_exe.ps1:

    exe: 'C:\Users\admin_user\Downloads\myapp.exe'

    ArgumentList: '/w /S /v"/l*v \"C:\Users\admin_user\AppData\Local\Temp\myapp.log\" /qn"'

    creates: '{{myapp_root}}/sbin/myapp.exe'

and now it works. I was just wondering whether this is expected and when to expect to require a suffix and when not to expect to need a suffix. Previously I was running ansible version 1.8.

Thanks,

Tony

[Chris Church]

It should work without the suffix.  However, I'm seeing the same issue with 1.8, 1.8.1 and 1.8.2.

In my case, it works when using ansible to run an adhoc command, but not ansible-playbook:

ansible -i inventory --module-path modules -m win_exe

I'll see if I can figure out what's going on...

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[Chris Church]

I have an idea what's causing the problem, no fix yet.

For now, you can define your tasks as follows and it will work:

- name: install packages

  action:

    module: win_exe

    exe: 'C:\Users\admin_user\Downloads\myapp.exe'

    ArgumentList: '/w /S /v"/l*v \"C:\Users\admin_user\AppData\Local\Temp\myapp.log\" /qn"'

    creates: '{{myapp_root}}/sbin/myapp.exe'

[Brian Coca]

Can you test against the latest devel? there was an issue in which if
you did not have the corresponding win_<mod>.py ansible would not
correctly detect the module existence at 'play compile time'.

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