community.general.xattr macOS support

tigattack commented 2 years ago

Summary

Having read the documentation for the xattr module, it states "Requires [...] that the setfattr/getfattr utilities are present".

While these do not exist on macOS, a utility by the name of xattr does, and (to my knowledge) offers the same functionality.

Trying to use the xattr module for anything (whether it's read, write, or delete) on macOS fails with an error:

% ansible localhost -m community.general.xattr -a "path=/Applications/Safari.app state=read"
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< PLAY [Ansible Ad-Hoc] >
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< TASK [community.general.xattr] >
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fatal: [localhost]: FAILED! => changed=false 
  msg: 'Failed to find required executable "getfattr" in paths: /usr/local/sbin:/opt/local/bin:/opt/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin:/usr/local/sbin:/opt/local/bin:/opt/local/sbin'