* Refactor ios cliconf plugin and ios_config module
* Refactor ios cliconf plugin to support generic network_config module
* Refactor ios_config module to work with cliconf api's
* Enable command and response logging in cliconf pulgin
* cliconf api documentation
* Fix unit test and other minor changes
* Doc update
* Fix CI failure
* Add default flag related changes
* Minor changes
* redact input command logging by default
* mutually_exclusive add - ios_config parents works with lines by not src
* mutually_execlusive parents,src added to all other net modules
* tests for mutually_exclusive parents,src and whitespce removal
* Fixing save so it still works. Adding changed as an option for save_when.
* Updating unit tests.
* Updating description to state that changed was added in 2.5.
* move set_module_args to units.modules.utils
* unit tests: reuse set_module_args
* unit tests: mock exit/fail_json in module.utils.ModuleTestCase
* unit tests: use module.utils.ModuleTestCase
* unit tests: fix 'import shadowed by loop variable'
* adds more intelligent save logic and diff to network config modules
* adds sha1 property to NetworkConfig
* adds new argument save_when to argument_spec
* adds new argument diff_against to argument_spec
* adds new argument intended_config to argument_spec
* renames config argument to running_config with alias to config
* deprecates the use of the save argument
* before and after now work with src argument
* misc module clean
Modules updated
* nxos_config
* ios_config
* eos_config
Most notably this makes the save mechanism more intelligent for config
modules for devices that need to copy the ephemeral config to
non-volatile storage.
The diff_against argument allows the playbook task to control what the
device's running-config is diff'ed against. By default it will return
the diff of the startup-config.
* removes ios_config from pep8/legacy_files.txt
* extends the ignore lines argument to the module
* clean up CI errors
* add missing list brackets
* fixes typo
* fixes unit test cases
* remove last line break when returning config contents
* encode config string to bytes before hashing
* fix typo
* addresses feedback in PR
* update unit test cases
* test/: PEP8 compliancy
- Make PEP8 compliant
* Python3 chokes on casting int to bytes (#24952)
But if we tell the formatter that the var is a number, it works
* Fixes#24251 save config only if it is changed
Save to startup configuration only when it is different
from running configuration.
* Fix unit test issue
* updates all ios modules to support persistent socket
* adds ios action plugin to connect to device
* adds exec_command() to ios shared module
* fixes ios_config and ios_template local action
* update all unit test cases
* adds base test module for ios module testing
* updates the ios_config module to use the network_cli plugin
* updates the local action plugin to derive from network
* add unit test cases for ios_config
