# Calling an action plugin w/o defining a corresponding module

**URL:** <https://forum.ansible.com/t/calling-an-action-plugin-w-o-defining-a-corresponding-module/32174>\
**Category:** Ansible Developer\
**Created:** [February 7, 2020, 12:34pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/calling-an-action-plugin-w-o-defining-a-corresponding-module/32174 "2020-02-07T12:34:40Z")\
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**Author:** ![Punit\_Jain](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/e56c9b/32.png) [@Punit\_Jain](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Punit_Jain)\
**Post date:** [February 7, 2020, 12:34pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/calling-an-action-plugin-w-o-defining-a-corresponding-module/32174/1 "2020-02-07T12:34:40Z")

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Hi,

Just checking if is it possible to do all processing in an action plugin named default as module and not defining module file altogether in library ? this is because i am able to do most processing in action plugin itself. I am getting . an error:

“msg”: “Unexpected failure during module execution.”,  
“stdout”: “”

Seems like its looking for missing module.