This module seems to have been originally written for a product called “CA Spectrum”. My XML-fu is very rusty, but from what I see in the code, it looks to me that it relies on those http://www.ca.com/spectrum/… URLs to obtain the XML schemas needed to encode/decode the XML information.
However, those URLs (apparently all of them) are redirected to https://www.broadcom.com/404-ca-technologies , and it seems that has been the cases since, at least, 2021. Again, I might be wrong, but my reading is that the module has been rendered useless after the schemas became unavailable.
So, I come here to check with the community if anyone can either confirm or refute this assessment, and help us decide whether we should deprecate the module or not.
Thanks in advance for any light you can shed on the topic.
According to my ChatGPT research, apparently those schema URLs are not required to be reachable or even to exist at all, they are only used as identifiers for those schemas.
Additionally, in the PR comment mentioned by @felixfontein there is a link to dome docs in Broadcom about using, installing, upgrading and whole set of things one can do with Spectrum. And what caught my eye is that those docs, at the time of writing, had been updated on 01 Aug 2025. There are a number of references to Ansible being used in this operational procedures, but I could not find any explicit reference to the collection or the modules in it.
So, the product not only still exists but it seems to be maintained, and the modules are, allegedly/hopefully, completely functional.
I’ll leave this topic open for the time being, but it seems to me those modules should not be deprecated at the time being.