Tweaking daisychain internals to allow get_url to modify the path destination when downloading to a directory.

Minor module refactoring.

lib/ansible/module_common.py

@@ -128,22 +128,27 @@ class AnsibleModule(object):
         log_args = re.sub(r'password=.+ (.*)', r"password=NOT_LOGGING_PASSWORD \1", self.args)
         syslog.syslog(syslog.LOG_NOTICE, 'Invoked with %s' % log_args)
 
+    def jsonify(self, data):
+        return json.dumps(data)
+
     def exit_json(self, **kwargs):
         ''' return from the module, without error '''
-        print json.dumps(kwargs)
+        print self.jsonify(kwargs)
         sys.exit(0)
 
     def fail_json(self, **kwargs):
         ''' return from the module, with an error message '''
         assert 'msg' in kwargs, "implementation error -- msg to explain the error is required"
         kwargs['failed'] = True
-        print json.dumps(kwargs)
+        print self.jsonify(kwargs)
         sys.exit(1)
 
     def md5(self, filename):
         ''' Return MD5 hex digest of local file, or None if file is not present. '''
         if not os.path.exists(filename):
             return None
+        if os.path.isdir(filename):
+            self.fail_json(msg="attempted to take md5sum of directory: %s" % filename)
         digest = _md5()
         blocksize = 64 * 1024
         infile = open(filename, 'rb')

lib/ansible/runner/__init__.py

@@ -537,6 +537,14 @@ class Runner(object):
             group_hosts[g.name] = [ h.name for h in g.hosts ]
         inject['groups'] = group_hosts
 
+        # allow module args to work as a dictionary
+        # though it is usually a string
+        new_args = ""
+        if type(self.module_args) == dict:
+            for (k,v) in self.module_args.iteritems():
+                new_args = new_args + "%s='%s' " % (k,v)
+            self.module_args = new_args
+
         conditional = utils.template(self.conditional, inject)
         if not eval(conditional):
             result = utils.jsonify(dict(skipped=True))
@@ -568,6 +576,8 @@ class Runner(object):
         if result.is_successful() and 'daisychain' in result.result:
             chained = True
             self.module_name = result.result['daisychain']
+            if 'daisychain_args' in result.result:
+                self.module_args = result.result['daisychain_args']
             result2 = self._executor_internal_inner(host, inject, port)
             changed = result.result.get('changed',False) or result2.result.get('changed',False)
             result.result.update(result2.result)