Proxmox inventory plugin - Fix string to dict conversion (#4349) (#4365)

* Proxmox inventory plugin - Fix string to dict conversion (#4348)

  * Re-use the (defined but unused) `plaintext_configs` variable to list
    configuration entries that should be ignored by the string to
    dictionary conversion code. At this point, it only contains the
    `description` string.
  * Convert to a dictionary if the all substrings obtained by splitting
    off the initial value with commas contain a `=` character
  * Limit substring splitting to a single split, so that a substring
    containing `a=b=c` will generate an `a` entry with value `b=c`.

* Added changelog fragment for PR #4349

* Fix changelog fragment for #4349

(cherry picked from commit 3eec63421a)

Co-authored-by: Emmanuel Benoît <tseeker@nocternity.net>

changelogs/fragments/4349-proxmox-inventory-dict-facts.yml

@@ -0,0 +1,8 @@
+---
+bugfixes:
+  - proxmox inventory plugin - fixed the ``description`` field being ignored if
+    it contained a comma
+    (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/4348).
+  - proxmox inventory plugin - always convert strings that follow the
+    ``key=value[,key=value[...]]`` form into dictionaries
+    (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/4349).

plugins/inventory/proxmox.py

@@ -307,7 +307,7 @@ class InventoryModule(BaseInventoryPlugin, Constructable, Cacheable):
         self.inventory.set_variable(name, vmtype_key, vmtype)
 
         plaintext_configs = [
-            'tags',
+            'description',
         ]
 
         for config in ret:
@@ -333,11 +333,11 @@ class InventoryModule(BaseInventoryPlugin, Constructable, Cacheable):
                     if agent_iface_value:
                         self.inventory.set_variable(name, agent_iface_key, agent_iface_value)
 
-                if not (isinstance(value, int) or ',' not in value):
+                if config not in plaintext_configs and not isinstance(value, int) and all("=" in v for v in value.split(",")):
                     # split off strings with commas to a dict
                     # skip over any keys that cannot be processed
                     try:
-                        value = dict(key.split("=") for key in value.split(","))
+                        value = dict(key.split("=", 1) for key in value.split(","))
                     except Exception:
                         continue