aci_rest use_ssl is defaults to False

[nurseandthenerd]

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Description

The Documentation states that the default for use_ssl is True. After the 2.7 update all of the jobs started using http and were failing (this was due to a firewall not necessarily the module). explicitly adding use_ssl key fixed the problem, however that contradicted the documentation. Also the documentation stated that

"If the value is not specified in the task, the value of environment variable ACI_USE_SSL will be used instead."

I also set that environmental variable and that didn't work either.

Affected Module Name(s):

aci_rest

APIC version and APIC Platform

5.2(7g) and on-prem.

Collection versions

• cisco.aci 2.7.0

Output/ Error message

Connection failed for http://apic/api/node/class/fabricHIfPol.json?order-by=fabricHIfPol.dn. Request failed: ",

Expected Behavior

data was returned

Actual Behavior

playbook failed

Playbook tasks to Reproduce

• name: get {{ apic_env.title() }} {{ api_call.display | default(api_call.name) }}
  cisco.aci.aci_rest:
  hostname: "{{ apic_address }}"
  username: "{{ apic_user }}"
  private_key: "{{ apic_key_path }}"
  certificate_name: "{{ apic_cert_name }}"
  validate_certs: no
  use_proxy: no
  method: get
  path: /api/node/class/{{ api_call.name }}.json?order-by={{ api_call.name }}.dn{%- if api_call.subtree is defined -%}&rsp-subtree={{ api_call.subtree }}{%- endif -%}
  register: response
  changed_when: False

Important Factoids

References

(https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/collections/cisco/aci/aci_rest_module.html)

[akinross]

Hi @nurseandthenerd , thank you for raising this issue. Just to confirm are only experiencing this with aci_rest module?

[nurseandthenerd]

Hi @nurseandthenerd , thank you for raising this issue. Just to confirm are only experiencing this with aci_rest module?

I haven't really tested the other modules. We mainly use this one for the most part.

[shrsr]

@nurseandthenerd and @akinross It affects all the modules because there's a bug in the code. We'll take care of this. Thanks.

[dalamanster]

When do you expect the fix please? is it matter of days or weeks/more? Sorry for pushing - I just want to plan some things. If I should stay with 2.6 release. Thanks for your great work!

[shrsr]

@dalamanster I would say a little more than a couple of weeks including the release time. I'll see if we can expedite this.
Thank you!