Test that transient failure in the middle of running async_status doesn't fail the task

test/integration/targets/async_fail/action_plugins/normal.py

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+# (c) 2012, Michael DeHaan <michael.dehaan@gmail.com>
+#
+# This file is part of Ansible
+#
+# Ansible is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
+# it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
+# the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
+# (at your option) any later version.
+#
+# Ansible is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
+# but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
+# MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
+# GNU General Public License for more details.
+#
+# You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
+# along with Ansible.  If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
+from __future__ import (absolute_import, division, print_function)
+__metaclass__ = type
+
+from ansible.errors import AnsibleError
+from ansible.plugins.action import ActionBase
+from ansible.utils.vars import merge_hash
+
+
+class ActionModule(ActionBase):
+
+    def run(self, tmp=None, task_vars=None):
+
+        # individual modules might disagree but as the generic the action plugin, pass at this point.
+        self._supports_check_mode = True
+        self._supports_async = True
+
+        result = super(ActionModule, self).run(tmp, task_vars)
+        del tmp  # tmp no longer has any effect
+
+        if not result.get('skipped'):
+
+            if result.get('invocation', {}).get('module_args'):
+                # avoid passing to modules in case of no_log
+                # should not be set anymore but here for backwards compatibility
+                del result['invocation']['module_args']
+
+            # FUTURE: better to let _execute_module calculate this internally?
+            wrap_async = self._task.async_val and not self._connection.has_native_async
+
+            # do work!
+            result = merge_hash(result, self._execute_module(task_vars=task_vars, wrap_async=wrap_async))
+
+            # hack to keep --verbose from showing all the setup module result
+            # moved from setup module as now we filter out all _ansible_ from result
+            if self._task.action == 'setup':
+                result['_ansible_verbose_override'] = True
+
+        # Simulate a transient network failure
+        if self._task.action == 'async_status' and 'finished' in result and result['finished'] != 1:
+            raise AnsibleError('Pretend to fail somewher ein executing async_status')
+
+        if not wrap_async:
+            # remove a temporary path we created
+            self._remove_tmp_path(self._connection._shell.tempdir)
+
+        return result