feat: support adding nodes recursively

wildfly.py

@@ -53,7 +53,7 @@ class ActionModule(ActionBase):
 
         try:
             cur_state = json.loads(cur_result.get('stdout')).get('result')
-        except Exception as ex:
+        except json.JSONDecodeError as ex:
             return merge_hash(cur_result, dict(
                 failed=True,
                 msg='Error parsing JSON from Wildfly CLI: {}'.format(str(ex))
@@ -70,7 +70,7 @@ class ActionModule(ActionBase):
                     item.get('state', 'present'),
                     False)
 
-            except Exception as ex:
+            except WildflyError as ex:
                 return merge_hash(cur_result, dict(
                     failed=True,
                     msg='Error while generating Wildfly batch: {}'.format(
@@ -175,12 +175,18 @@ def wildfly_batch(prev, root, attrs, state='present', wrap=True):
 
     display.v("current config: {}".format(cur))
 
+    # consider dict attrs whose values are also dicts as sub-nodes
+    sub_nodes = [k for k in sorted(attrs) if (
+        isinstance(attrs[k], dict) and all(
+            [isinstance(attrs[k][v], dict) for v in attrs[k]]
+            )) ]
+
     if state.lower() == 'present':
 
         if cur:
             # node exists, add missing attrs
             for k in sorted(attrs):
-                if k not in cur or cur[k] != attrs[k]:
+                if k not in sub_nodes and (k not in cur or cur[k] != attrs[k]):
                     output = '{}{}:write-attribute(name={},value={})\n'.format(
                         output, root, k, format_attr(attrs[k]))
                     # update configuration tree
@@ -191,10 +197,22 @@ def wildfly_batch(prev, root, attrs, state='present', wrap=True):
             output = '{}{}:add({})\n'.format(
                 output, root,
                 ','.join(['{}={}'.format(
-                    k, format_attr(attrs[k])) for k in sorted(attrs)])
+                    k, format_attr(attrs[k])) for k in sorted(attrs)
+                          if k not in sub_nodes])
             )
             # config_add_node(prev, root, attrs)
 
+        # add sub-nodes recursively
+        for key in sub_nodes:
+            for val in attrs[key]:
+                output = output + wildfly_batch(
+                    prev,
+                    '{}/{}={}'.format(root, key, val),
+                    attrs[key][val],
+                    state,
+                    False
+                )
+
     if state.lower() == 'absent' and cur:
         # remove existing node
         output = '{}{}:remove()\n'.format(output, root)
@@ -221,7 +239,7 @@ def config_query(config, path):
             # either ptr is none (Type), or ptr[qry] not found (Key)
             return None
         except Exception as ex:
-            raise WildflyError("config query error: {}".format(str(ex)))
+            raise WildflyError("Error looking up config") from ex
     return ptr