Adding a cli transport option for the bigip_command module. (#30391)

* Adding a cli transport option for the bigip_command module.

* Fixing keyerror when using other f5 modules. Adding version_added for new option in bigip_command.

* Removing local connection check because the F5 tasks can be delegated to any host that has the libraries for REST.

* Using the network_common load_provider.

* Adding unit test to cover cli transport and updating previous unit test to ensure cli was not called.

lib/ansible/module_utils/f5_utils.py

@@ -134,6 +134,28 @@ def fq_list_names(partition, list_names):
     return map(lambda x: fq_name(partition, x), list_names)
 
 
+def to_commands(module, commands):
+    spec = {
+        'command': dict(key=True),
+        'prompt': dict(),
+        'answer': dict()
+    }
+    transform = ComplexList(spec, module)
+    return transform(commands)
+
+
+def run_commands(module, commands, check_rc=True):
+    responses = list()
+    commands = to_commands(module, to_list(commands))
+    for cmd in commands:
+        cmd = module.jsonify(cmd)
+        rc, out, err = exec_command(module, cmd)
+        if check_rc and rc != 0:
+            module.fail_json(msg=to_text(err, errors='surrogate_then_replace'), rc=rc)
+        responses.append(to_text(out, errors='surrogate_then_replace'))
+    return responses
+
+
 # New style
 
 from abc import ABCMeta, abstractproperty
@@ -154,6 +176,9 @@ except ImportError:
 
 from ansible.module_utils.basic import AnsibleModule
 from ansible.module_utils.six import iteritems, with_metaclass
+from ansible.module_utils.network_common import to_list, ComplexList
+from ansible.module_utils.connection import exec_command
+from ansible.module_utils._text import to_text
 
 
 F5_COMMON_ARGS = dict(
@@ -232,12 +257,13 @@ class AnsibleF5Client(object):
         self.check_mode = self.module.check_mode
         self._connect_params = self._get_connect_params()
 
-        try:
-            self.api = self._get_mgmt_root(
-                f5_product_name, **self._connect_params
-            )
-        except iControlUnexpectedHTTPError as exc:
-            self.fail(str(exc))
+        if 'transport' not in self.module.params or self.module.params['transport'] != 'cli':
+            try:
+                self.api = self._get_mgmt_root(
+                    f5_product_name, **self._connect_params
+                )
+            except iControlUnexpectedHTTPError as exc:
+                self.fail(str(exc))
 
     def fail(self, msg):
         self.module.fail_json(msg=msg)