Replying to myself, you need to setup those collections in the same path as
the one being develop. Duh !
Cédric S.
On Wednesday, May 18, 2022 at 9:07:47 AM UTC+2 Idont Haveaname wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I'm trying to develop a collection for an appliance (similar way of
> working as a network device), you can do RAPI calls to it or SSH to a very
> narrowed shell.
>
> Therefore, I thought that using the httpapi connection type from the
> netcommon collection would be a good idea to use it as a first class
> citizen.
>
> Now it starts.. I've some "unit testing" but I've serious difficulties to
> think that they are usefull as I cannot access the httpapi plugin (any
> import attempts fails when used in combination with ansible-test commands),
> therefore Unit test are mocking them or creating Fake connections.
>
> Integration tests are ran through the following command: ansible-test
> network-integration --inventory
> ~/dev/ansible_collections/community/my_collection/tests/integration/inventory.networking
>
> but keeps returning:
>
> fatal: [appliance]: FAILED! => {"msg": "the connection plugin 'httpapi'
> was not found"}
>
> I guess this is a problem of python path being constructed differently
> when running ansible-test command ?
>
> Here's a sample of my inventory:
>
> [appliance]
> appliance_container ansible_host="appliance.iamlab.community.org"
> ansible_connection="httpapi" ansible_network_os="appliance"
> ansible_user="admin" ansible_password="Passw0rd"
> ansible_httpapi_use_ssl="yes" ansible_httpapi_validate_certs="no"
>
> And this is the play output:
>
> Running appliance_service_agreements_info integration test role
> [WARNING]: running playbook inside collection community.appliance
>
> PLAY [appliance]
> *********************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************
>
> TASK [appliance_service_agreements_info : Checking Applianceservice
> agreements]
> **********************************************************************************************************************************
> fatal: [appliance_container]: FAILED! => {"msg": "the connection plugin
> 'httpapi' was not found"}
>
> PLAY RECAP
> **********************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************
> appliance_container : ok=0 changed=0 unreachable=0
> failed=1 skipped=0 rescued=0 ignored=0
>
> Would you have any guidance for me please ?
>
> Regards,
>
> Cédric S.
>
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