Mitogen does not support Ansible 2.8 yet

• Which version of Ansible are you running? 2.8rc3

• Is your version of Ansible patched in any way? no

• Are you running with any custom modules, or module_utils loaded? yes

• Have you tried the latest master version from Git? yes - this is with latest master

• Mention your host and target OS and versions

Host - EL7.6

• Mention your host and target Python versions

python 2.7.5

PLAY [webfilter*] **********************************************************************************************************************************************************
[mux  9691] 17:21:18.993407 D mitogen: mitogen.service.Pool(0x7f124f022190, size=32, th='MainThread'): initialized
[mux  9691] 17:21:18.996991 D ansible_mitogen.process: Service pool configured: size=32

TASK [Gathering Facts] *****************************************************************************************************************************************************
task path: /export/home/orion-admin/ansible-boulder/playbooks/e2guardian.yml:2
Sunday 12 May 2019  17:21:19 -0600 (0:00:00.185)       0:00:00.185 ************ 
ERROR! Unexpected Exception, this is probably a bug: expected string or buffer
the full traceback was:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/bin/ansible-playbook", line 110, in <module>
    exit_code = cli.run()
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/ansible/cli/playbook.py", line 123, in run
    results = pbex.run()
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/ansible/executor/playbook_executor.py", line 170, in run
    result = self._tqm.run(play=play)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/ansible/executor/task_queue_manager.py", line 249, in run
    play_return = strategy.run(iterator, play_context)
  File "/export/home/orion-admin/ansible-boulder/mitogen/ansible_mitogen/strategy.py", line 254, in run
    lambda: run(iterator, play_context)
  File "/export/home/orion-admin/ansible-boulder/mitogen/mitogen/core.py", line 561, in _profile_hook
    return func(*args)
  File "/export/home/orion-admin/ansible-boulder/mitogen/ansible_mitogen/strategy.py", line 254, in <lambda>
    lambda: run(iterator, play_context)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/ansible/plugins/strategy/linear.py", line 306, in run
    self._queue_task(host, task, task_vars, play_context)
  File "/export/home/orion-admin/ansible-boulder/mitogen/ansible_mitogen/strategy.py", line 229, in _queue_task
    class_only=True,
  File "/export/home/orion-admin/ansible-boulder/mitogen/ansible_mitogen/strategy.py", line 98, in wrap_connection_loader__get
    return connection_loader__get(name, *args, **kwargs)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/ansible/plugins/loader.py", line 557, in get
    path = self.find_plugin(name, collection_list=collection_list)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/ansible/plugins/loader.py", line 506, in find_plugin
    plugin = self._find_plugin(name, mod_type=mod_type, ignore_deprecated=ignore_deprecated, check_aliases=check_aliases, collection_list=collection_list)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/ansible/plugins/loader.py", line 395, in _find_plugin
    if (is_collection_ref(name) or collection_list) and not name.startswith('Ansible'):
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/ansible/utils/collection_loader.py", line 298, in is_collection_ref
    return bool(_collection_qualified_re.match(candidate_name))
TypeError: expected string or buffer
[mux  9691] 17:21:19.052346 D mitogen: Waker(Broker(0x7f124f00fa10) rfd=6, wfd=8).on_disconnect()
[mux  9691] 17:21:19.052735 D mitogen: Router(Broker(0x7f124f00fa10)): stats: 0 module requests in 0 ms, 0 sent (0 ms minify time), 0 negative responses. Sent 0.0 kb total, 0.0 kb avg.                             

[dw]

Bare minimum implementation seems to be done now – please open fresh issues for anything you bump into, but CI is passing so I’m happy 😃

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[makkus]

@armenr : https://mitogen.networkgenomics.com/changelog.html#v0-2-8-2019-08-18