update_netbox_object is unstable if value ends on whitespace (like in the description)

[monkz]

ISSUE TYPE

• Bug Report

SOFTWARE VERSIONS

Ansible:

2.9.9

Netbox:

2.8.5

Collection:

0.2.3

SUMMARY

Netbox trims strings, the netbox collection detects a difference between playbook and returned value. Thous triggers an update.

    "diff": {
        "after": {
            "description": "WWN:  ",
        },
        "before": {
            "description": "WWN:",
        }

STEPS TO REPRODUCE

Create an inventory item with description that ends on whitespace.

EXPECTED RESULTS

Either the collection trims as well, or issues a warning about trailing whitespace.

ACTUAL RESULTS

It gets updated over and over, because the value with whitespace (in ansible-playbook) does not match the returned value from netbox that is trimmed.

[FragmentedPacket]

Thanks for this report! This should be able to be fixed within the the _normalize_data method.

[monkz]

Works as well. thank you for this fix too

[FragmentedPacket]

Thanks for reporting these bugs!