ejabberd_user - refactoring and simplification (#3093) (#3099)

* ejabberd_user - refactoring and simplification

* added changelog fragment

* Update changelogs/fragments/3093-ejabberd_user-refactor.yaml

Co-authored-by: Felix Fontein <felix@fontein.de>

Co-authored-by: Felix Fontein <felix@fontein.de>
(cherry picked from commit 5be4adc434)

Co-authored-by: Alexei Znamensky <103110+russoz@users.noreply.github.com>

changelogs/fragments/3093-ejabberd_user-refactor.yaml

@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+bugfixes:
+  - ejabberd_user - replaced in-code check with ``required_if``, using ``get_bin_path()`` for the command, passing args to ``run_command()`` as list instead of string (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/3093).

plugins/modules/web_infrastructure/ejabberd_user.py

@@ -72,11 +72,6 @@ import syslog
 from ansible.module_utils.basic import AnsibleModule
 
 
-class EjabberdUserException(Exception):
-    """ Base exception for EjabberdUser class object """
-    pass
-
-
 class EjabberdUser(object):
     """ This object represents a user resource for an ejabberd server.   The
     object manages user creation and deletion using ejabberdctl.  The following
@@ -99,12 +94,7 @@ class EjabberdUser(object):
         changed.   It will return True if the user does not match the supplied
         credentials and False if it does not
         """
-        try:
-            options = [self.user, self.host, self.pwd]
-            (rc, out, err) = self.run_command('check_password', options)
-        except EjabberdUserException:
-            (rc, out, err) = (1, None, "required attribute(s) missing")
-        return rc
+        return self.run_command('check_password', [self.user, self.host, self.pwd])
 
     @property
     def exists(self):
@@ -112,12 +102,7 @@ class EjabberdUser(object):
         host specified.  If the user exists True is returned, otherwise False
         is returned
         """
-        try:
-            options = [self.user, self.host]
-            (rc, out, err) = self.run_command('check_account', options)
-        except EjabberdUserException:
-            (rc, out, err) = (1, None, "required attribute(s) missing")
-        return not bool(int(rc))
+        return self.run_command('check_account', [self.user, self.host])
 
     def log(self, entry):
         """ This method will log information to the local syslog facility """
@@ -129,44 +114,25 @@ class EjabberdUser(object):
         """ This method will run the any command specified and return the
         returns using the Ansible common module
         """
-        if not all(options):
-            raise EjabberdUserException
-
-        cmd = 'ejabberdctl %s ' % cmd
-        cmd += " ".join(options)
-        self.log('command: %s' % cmd)
-        return self.module.run_command(cmd.split())
+        cmd = [self.module.get_bin_path('ejabberdctl'), cmd] + options
+        self.log('command: %s' % " ".join(cmd))
+        return self.module.run_command(cmd)
 
     def update(self):
         """ The update method will update the credentials for the user provided
         """
-        try:
-            options = [self.user, self.host, self.pwd]
-            (rc, out, err) = self.run_command('change_password', options)
-        except EjabberdUserException:
-            (rc, out, err) = (1, None, "required attribute(s) missing")
-        return (rc, out, err)
+        return self.run_command('change_password', [self.user, self.host, self.pwd])
 
     def create(self):
         """ The create method will create a new user on the host with the
         password provided
         """
-        try:
-            options = [self.user, self.host, self.pwd]
-            (rc, out, err) = self.run_command('register', options)
-        except EjabberdUserException:
-            (rc, out, err) = (1, None, "required attribute(s) missing")
-        return (rc, out, err)
+        return self.run_command('register', [self.user, self.host, self.pwd])
 
     def delete(self):
         """ The delete method will delete the user from the host
         """
-        try:
-            options = [self.user, self.host]
-            (rc, out, err) = self.run_command('unregister', options)
-        except EjabberdUserException:
-            (rc, out, err) = (1, None, "required attribute(s) missing")
-        return (rc, out, err)
+        return self.run_command('unregister', [self.user, self.host])
 
 
 def main():
@@ -174,11 +140,14 @@ def main():
         argument_spec=dict(
             host=dict(required=True, type='str'),
             username=dict(required=True, type='str'),
-            password=dict(default=None, type='str', no_log=True),
+            password=dict(type='str', no_log=True),
             state=dict(default='present', choices=['present', 'absent']),
-            logging=dict(default=False, type='bool')
+            logging=dict(default=False, type='bool')  # deprecate in favour of c.g.syslogger?
         ),
-        supports_check_mode=True
+        required_if=[
+            ('state', 'present', ['password']),
+        ],
+        supports_check_mode=True,
     )
 
     obj = EjabberdUser(module)