- persistent_state represents whether a profile is stored on disk
- persistent_state defaults to 'present'
- When there is no type specified for the profile, it is enough for a
profile with the same name to be stored on the target's systems file
system. Otherwise the role will fail
- state now represents the runtime state and can be up, down or
unspecified
- translate the state definitions into actions that will be performed.
The actions correspond to the previous states.
- add the possibility to write unit tests to only verify parts of the
resulting connection dictionary to only check for the expected changes
instead of the full connection that can also contain unrelated defaults
This removes this deprecation warning:
[DEPRECATION WARNING]: Using tests as filters is deprecated. Instead of
using `result|succeeded` instead use `result is succeeded`. This feature
will be removed in version 2.9. Deprecation warnings can be disabled by
setting deprecation_warnings=False in ansible.cfg.
Bytestrings need to be decoded. Just use UTF-8 here, since everyone
should be using it. Also add a test case to catch this. The exception
was:
TypeError: cannot use a string pattern on a bytes-like object
