Fix check mode in iptables_state for incomplete iptables-save files along with integration tests (#8029)
* Implement integration test to reproduce #7463
* Make new iptables_state checks async
* Add missing commit to iptable_state integration test
* Remove async when using checkmode in iptables_state integration tests
* Do per table comparison in check mode for iptables_state
* Calculate changes of iptables state per table based on result
* Output target iptables state in checkmode
* Refactor calculation of invidual table states in iptables_state
* Add missing return for table calculation
* Add missing arg to regex check
* Remove leftover debug output for target iptable state
* Parse per table state from raw state string
* Join restored state for extration of table specific rules
* Switch arguments for joining restored iptable state
* Output final ip table state
* Compare content of tables
* Complete iptables partial tables test cases
* Correct order of test iptables data
* Update docu for iptables tables_after
* Add changelog fragment
* Appease the linting gods for iptables_state
* Adjust spelling and remove tables_after from return values
(cherry picked from commit 23396e62dc)
Co-authored-by: Maxopoly <max@dermax.org>
* Remove superfluous VM.
* Add extra VM group.
* More platforms, add scripts.
* [REVERT THIS] Shrink matrix to only the tests we are interested in.
* Fix some tests.
* Skip snap tests on Ubuntu VMs for now.
* Skip xfs_quota tests on Alpine VMs due to ansible.posix.mount failing.
* Revert "[REVERT THIS] Shrink matrix to only the tests we are interested in."
This reverts commit 2e98e163db.
* Stick to Alpine and Ubuntu 22.04 for now.
* restart from last state
* test (sanity) doc fragment placeholder
* test (sanity) remove doc fragment placeholder
* remove internal params from DOCUMENTATION
* update ignore-2.10.txt
* doc: add changelog fragment
* shorten changelog fragment
* Revert "shorten changelog fragment"
This reverts commit f9aea0d1eaefda139fd5b79bd0eb127c09a433fb.
* test with posix/group1
* test with posix/group3
* test with posix/group5
* test with posix/group4
* test with posix/group3
* New modules/action plugins automatically get a changelog entry
* fix: styles
* Revert "remove internal params from DOCUMENTATION"
This reverts commit 7d5fcf4b17e4cd5b0afc08fd1bd3fcef5fcaee26.
* drop neutral/informative/stateless behaviour
* update tasks after changes in module
* use FQCN in EXAMPLES
* add tests to validate error handling about required params
* doc: remove outdated sentence
* do not document internal parameters
* display timeout value in failure message
* remove inapropriate comment
* merge results and clean them up only once
* conditionally remove tmp path
* at least one iteration is required
* remove deprecated code
* move variables declaration to conditional block
* dissociate async and connection timeout
* improve warnings (conditions + values)
* remove ANSIBLE_METADATA (no more needed); fix typo
* update DOCUMENTATION
* Drop field 'version_added' (no more needed).
* Add a note about check_mode support.
* catch early errors before resetting connection and processing the loop
* fix typo
* change posix group (due to xtables locks); add 'version_added' in doc
* update deprecation (replace Ansible 2.12 by community.general 2.0.0)
* bump version_added to 1.0.0
* update ignore-2.11.txt
* ignore errors for 2.9 as for 2.10 & 2.11
* move action plugin to system/ and replace it by a symlink
* remove action-plugin-docs override in tests/sanity/ignore*.txt
* update action plugin docstrings
* bump version_added to 1.1.0
* use lowercase booleans
* extend usage of namespaces to ansible builtin modules
