Issue with URI module in ansible1.9-1.9.6-2

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Hi all,

I am on CentOS 6.7 using Ansible 1.9 and I’ve updated my version of Ansible to be ansible1.9-1.9.6-2 (retrieved from EPEL).

I have some tasks ([1]) which upload (via POST) dashboards to Grafana. Those tasks used to run just fine in the previous version of Ansible (4-2) but with the most recent release of the 1.9 branch, they fail with an error ([2]).

[1]

  • name: import the Cluster dashboards
    uri:
    url: http://127.0.0.1:3000/api/dashboards/db
    method: POST
    body: “{{ lookup(‘file’, ‘/tmp/cluster.json’) }}”
    body_format: json
    HEADER_Content-Type: “application/json”
    user: admin
    password: admin
    force_basic_auth: yes

[2]

TASK: [grafana-2-dashboards | import the Cluster dashboards] ******************
failed: [10.165.1.41] => {“failed”: true, “parsed”: false}
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Traceback (most recent call last):
File “/root/.ansible/tmp/ansible-tmp-1463513575.1-256930227119349/uri”, line 2106, in
main()
File “/root/.ansible/tmp/ansible-tmp-1463513575.1-256930227119349/uri”, line 415, in main
resp, content, dest = uri(module, url, dest, user, password, body, method, dict_headers, redirects, socket_timeout, validate_certs)
File “/root/.ansible/tmp/ansible-tmp-1463513575.1-256930227119349/uri”, line 311, in uri
resp, content = h.request(url, method=method, body=body, headers=headers)
File “/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/httplib2/init.py”, line 1605, in request
(response, content) = self._request(conn, authority, uri, request_uri, method, body, headers, redirections, cachekey)
File “/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/httplib2/init.py”, line 1353, in _request
(response, content) = self._conn_request(conn, request_uri, method, body, headers)
File “/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/httplib2/init.py”, line 1290, in _conn_request
conn.request(method, request_uri, body, headers)
File “/usr/lib64/python2.6/httplib.py”, line 936, in request
self._send_request(method, url, body, headers)
File “/usr/lib64/python2.6/httplib.py”, line 976, in _send_request
self.send(body)
File “/usr/lib64/python2.6/httplib.py”, line 781, in send
self.sock.sendall(str)
File “”, line 1, in sendall
TypeError: sendall() argument 1 must be string or buffer, not dict
OpenSSH_5.3p1, OpenSSL 1.0.1e-fips 11 Feb 2013
debug1: Reading configuration data /etc/ssh/ssh_config
debug1: Applying options for *
debug1: auto-mux: Trying existing master
debug1: mux_client_request_session: master session id: 2
debug1: mux_client_request_session: master session id: 2

I would appreciate any pointers to help me debug this.

Thanks in advance for your help.

Guillaume.

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I think uri may have changed and it might not be necessary to set the
HEADER_Content-Type
any more now that you are setting body_format: json

Also I’ve seen elsewhere that you may need to insert a space to avoid a type conversion problem.

Try changing

body: “{{ lookup(‘file’, ‘/tmp/cluster.json’) }}”

to

body: " {{ lookup(‘file’, ‘/tmp/cluster.json’) }}"

If that doesn’t work and you get past the stracktrace then I suggest trying something like wireshark to inspect what uri actually sends.

Hope this helps,

Jon

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Hi Jon,

Wow, many thanks for your help, adding the space was enough to fix the issue!!!
Do you happen to know if there is a more intuitive way of preventing the type conversion ? Maybe applying a filter ?
In 1.9, I actually think the body_format option is not supported, so I have to specify the content type.
I owe you big time for your help.

Guillaume.

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Hi Guillaume,

Pretty much everything I know about this issue is from the discussion on this thread: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/ansible-devel/2C7pl2_kxlY

Jon