How to Create Ansible Custom Modules using Python |Passing Arguments to AnsibleModule

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script
from ansible.module_utils.basic import AnsibleModule
import csv
def main():
module = AnsibleModule(
argument_spec = dict(
device_facts = dict(type='dict', required=True),
dest_csv_path = dict(type='str', required=False, default = '/home/dev/ansible_masterclass/21_custom_module' ),
dest_csv_file = dict(type='str', required=False, default='facts_file.csv')
)
)
try:
device_facts = module.params['device_facts']
sorted_device_facts = dict(sorted(device_facts.items()))
csv_filename = f"{module.params['dest_csv_path']}/{module.params['dest_csv_file']}"
csv_header = ["inventory_name","device_ip", "hostname", "model", "version", "serial_number"]
with open(csv_filename, 'w') as csvfile:
writer = csv.DictWriter(csvfile, fieldnames=csv_header)
writer.writeheader()
for device, details in sorted_device_facts.items():
writer.writerow({
"inventory_name": device,
"device_ip": details['ansible_host'],
"hostname": details['ansible_facts']['net_hostname'],
"model": details['ansible_facts']['net_model'],
"version": details['ansible_facts']['net_version'],
"serial_number": details['ansible_facts']['net_serialnum'],
})
module.exit_json(changed=True, output="Saved content to CSV")
except Exception as e:
module.fail_json(msg="Module Failed", exception= str(e))
if _name_ == '__main__':
main()
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[@NetworkEvolution]

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[@VanitaBhabal]

Will they ask to write a code to create a custom module in an ansible interview.

[@NetworkEvolution]

they might not. But you should be clear about how to define module args in python script and module response. It is not so difficult.