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Ansible 2.x fails with "value of <arg> must be one of: "... error for Junos modules with boolean arguments #118

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Here is an example of the problem:

user@h0$ ansible-playbook --version
ansible-playbook 2.1.0
  config file = /home/user/ansible.cfg
  configured module search path = Default w/o overrides

user@h0$ cat junos_install_config_example.pb.yaml 

---
- name: Install config on edge3.lab
  hosts: edge3.lab
  connection: local
  gather_facts: no
  roles:
    - Juniper.junos
  tasks:
    - name: Install config
      junos_install_config:
        host: "{{ inventory_hostname }}"
        user: "user"
        passwd: "user123"
        replace: true
        file: "./config.xml"
        logfile: "./changes.log"

user@h0$ ansible-playbook junos_install_config_example.pb.yaml 

PLAY [Install config on edge3.lab] *********************************************

TASK [Install config] **********************************************************
fatal: [edge3.lab]: FAILED! => {"changed": false, "failed": true, "msg": "value of replace must be one of: yes,on,1,true,1,True,no,off,0,false,0,False, got: True"}

NO MORE HOSTS LEFT *************************************************************
    to retry, use: --limit @/home/user/.ansible/retry/junos_install_config_example.pb.retry

PLAY RECAP *********************************************************************
edge3.lab                  : ok=0    changed=0    unreachable=0    failed=1   

The problem is that Ansible 1.x considered this to be a valid definition of an argument:

    module = AnsibleModule(
        argument_spec=dict(
            ...
            replace=dict(required=False, choices=BOOLEANS, default=False),
            ...
        ),
        supports_check_mode=True)

In Ansible 2.x, the same declaration produces the error above.

However, if the argument is explicitly typed as a boolean it works both on Ansible 2.x and 1.x:

    module = AnsibleModule(
        argument_spec=dict(
            ...
            replace=dict(required=False, type='bool', choices=BOOLEANS, default=False),
            ...
        ),
        supports_check_mode=True)

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