New Plugins #8594 (#8595)

* Implement #8594

* Fix lint and BOTMETA entries.

* Fix BOTMETA

* Consolidate argument check, code simplification, and formatting. Remove test vars.

* Fix lint.

* retrigger checks

* Update plugins/plugin_utils/ansible_type.py

Co-authored-by: Felix Fontein <felix@fontein.de>

* Update plugins/test/ansible_type.py

Co-authored-by: Felix Fontein <felix@fontein.de>

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Co-authored-by: Felix Fontein <felix@fontein.de>

plugins/plugin_utils/ansible_type.py

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+# Copyright (c) 2024 Vladimir Botka <vbotka@gmail.com>
+# GNU General Public License v3.0+ (see LICENSES/GPL-3.0-or-later.txt or https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-3.0.txt)
+# SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-3.0-or-later
+
+from __future__ import (absolute_import, division, print_function)
+__metaclass__ = type
+
+from ansible.errors import AnsibleFilterError
+from ansible.module_utils.common._collections_compat import Mapping
+
+
+def _atype(data, alias):
+    """
+    Returns the name of the type class.
+    """
+
+    data_type = type(data).__name__
+    return alias.get(data_type, data_type)
+
+
+def _ansible_type(data, alias):
+    """
+    Returns the Ansible data type.
+    """
+
+    if alias is None:
+        alias = {}
+
+    if not isinstance(alias, Mapping):
+        msg = "The argument alias must be a dictionary. %s is %s"
+        raise AnsibleFilterError(msg % (alias, type(alias)))
+
+    data_type = _atype(data, alias)
+
+    if data_type == 'list' and len(data) > 0:
+        items = [_atype(i, alias) for i in data]
+        items_type = '|'.join(sorted(set(items)))
+        return ''.join((data_type, '[', items_type, ']'))
+
+    if data_type == 'dict' and len(data) > 0:
+        keys = [_atype(i, alias) for i in data.keys()]
+        vals = [_atype(i, alias) for i in data.values()]
+        keys_type = '|'.join(sorted(set(keys)))
+        vals_type = '|'.join(sorted(set(vals)))
+        return ''.join((data_type, '[', keys_type, ', ', vals_type, ']'))
+
+    return data_type