Ansible DNAC REST module

[beye91]

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe. There are always REST calls that are not implemented and it would be great to have an Ansible module like other Cisco products for example ACI: https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/collections/cisco/aci/aci_rest_module.html

Describe the solution you'd like A module that only focuses on the payload and not dealing with authentication and saving the TOKEN in a separate variable.

Describe alternatives you've considered An alternative solution is the ansible.builtin.uri

[beye91]

For example:

- hosts: dnac_servers
  vars_files:
    - credentials.yml
    - vars.yml
  vars:
    get_devices_url: "https://{{dnac_host}}:{{dnac_port}}/dna/intent/api/v1/network-device"
    auth_url: "https://{{dnac_host}}:{{dnac_port}}/dna/system/api/v1/auth/token"
    deviceID_lookup: "{{playbook_dir}}/DEVICE_ID_LOOKUP.yaml"
  gather_facts: no
  connection: local
  tasks:
    - name: authenticate to DNAC and get token as env variable
      uri:
        url: "{{auth_url}}"
        method: POST
        user: "{{dnac_username}}"
        password: "{{dnac_password}}"
        headers:
          Content-Type: "application/json"
          Accept: "application/json"
        status_code: 200
        force_basic_auth: yes
        validate_certs: "{{dnac_verify}}"
      register: auth_response
    - debug:
        var: auth_response.json.Token

    - name: get list of devices
      uri:
        url: "{{get_devices_url}}"
        method: GET
        validate_certs: "{{dnac_verify}}"
        headers:
          x-auth-token: "{{auth_response.json.Token}}"
          Content-Type: "application/json"
          Accept: "application/json"
        status_code: 200
      register: dev_list
    - debug:
        var: dev_list.json.response 

I would like to avoid that and it can be much more simpler.

Cheers, Chris

[jbogarin]

Thanks for the enhancement idea. We will figure out if we can include it in the next release.

[MTWiley]

I'd like to second the request or bubble it back up to the top.

As the original poster mentioned having a relatively simple workaround for any use-case that you don't currently have a module for would be very helpful.

[zapodeanu]

@MTWiley We will review this when we release the next library version.