From 2f6d6ccb5aa2df9b95d591c48eec4cdddd024446 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Michael DeHaan <michael.dehaan@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 8 Aug 2012 20:30:20 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] Nicer errors from modules if arguments are not fed key=value

---
 lib/ansible/module_common.py | 5 ++++-
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/lib/ansible/module_common.py b/lib/ansible/module_common.py
index e660ce2e6d..f49d243408 100644
--- a/lib/ansible/module_common.py
+++ b/lib/ansible/module_common.py
@@ -149,7 +149,10 @@ class AnsibleModule(object):
         items   = shlex.split(args)
         params = {}
         for x in items:
-            (k, v) = x.split("=",1)
+            try:
+                (k, v) = x.split("=",1)
+            except:
+                self.fail_json(msg="this module requires key=value arguments")
             params[k] = v
         return (params, args)