InfluxDB_database: Make the path argument conditional on the InfluxDB version (#1126)

Co-authored-by: Mathias Ettinger <mathias.ettinger@viveris.f>

changelogs/fragments/1126-influxdb-conditional-path-argument.yml

@@ -0,0 +1,4 @@
+---
+bugfixes:
+  - influxdb - fix usage of path for older version of
+    python-influxdb (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/997).

plugins/doc_fragments/influxdb.py

@@ -40,6 +40,7 @@ options:
   path:
     description:
     - The path on which InfluxDB server is accessible
+    - Only available when using python-influxdb >= 5.1.0
     type: str
     version_added: '0.2.0'
   validate_certs:
@@ -60,6 +61,7 @@ options:
     description:
     - Number of retries client will try before aborting.
     - C(0) indicates try until success.
+    - Only available when using python-influxdb >= 4.1.0
     type: int
     default: 3
   use_udp:

plugins/module_utils/influxdb.py

@@ -9,6 +9,7 @@ __metaclass__ = type
 import traceback
 
 from ansible.module_utils.basic import missing_required_lib
+from distutils.version import LooseVersion
 
 REQUESTS_IMP_ERR = None
 try:
@@ -69,7 +70,6 @@ class InfluxDb():
         args = dict(
             host=self.hostname,
             port=self.port,
-            path=self.path,
             username=self.username,
             password=self.password,
             database=self.database_name,
@@ -80,9 +80,13 @@ class InfluxDb():
             udp_port=self.params['udp_port'],
             proxies=self.params['proxies'],
         )
-        influxdb_api_version = tuple(influxdb_version.split("."))
-        if influxdb_api_version >= ('4', '1', '0'):
+        influxdb_api_version = LooseVersion(influxdb_version)
+        if influxdb_api_version >= LooseVersion('4.1.0'):
             # retries option is added in version 4.1.0
             args.update(retries=self.params['retries'])
 
+        if influxdb_api_version >= LooseVersion('5.1.0'):
+            # path argument is added in version 5.1.0
+            args.update(path=self.path)
+
         return InfluxDBClient(**args)

plugins/modules/database/influxdb/influxdb_database.py

@@ -16,7 +16,7 @@ description:
 author: "Kamil Szczygiel (@kamsz)"
 requirements:
     - "python >= 2.6"
-    - "influxdb >= 0.9 & <= 1.2.4"
+    - "influxdb >= 0.9"
     - requests
 options:
     database_name: