TypeError: unhashable type despite using body-format: json in uri: task

Question

If I add a body to a uri: task the task fails with "Status code was -1 and not [200]: An unknown error occurred: unhashable type"

If I remove the body: then the Web service returns an error (because it needs the body!) but at least it gets as far as the webservice!

This is the task:

  - name: create new RE if RE doesn't exist
    uri:
      url: https://api.eu.cloud.talend.com/tmc/v1.3/runtimes/remote-engines
      method: POST
      headers:
        Authorization: Basic {{talend_personal_access_token}}
        Accept: application/json
      status-code: 201
      body-format: json
      body:
        name: "{{RE_name}}"
    register: new_RE_response
    when: check_response.json[0].id is undefined

This is the output:

{
    "status": -1,
    "exception": "Traceback (most recent call last):\n  File \"/tmp/ansible_uri_payload_nEptqB/ansible_uri_payload.zip/ansible/module_utils/urls.py\", line 1359, in fetch_url\n    unix_socket=unix_socket)\n  File \"/tmp/ansible_uri_payload_nEptqB/ansible_uri_payload.zip/ansible/module_utils/urls.py\", line 1257, in open_url\n    use_gssapi=use_gssapi, unix_socket=unix_socket)\n  File \"/tmp/ansible_uri_payload_nEptqB/ansible_uri_payload.zip/ansible/module_utils/urls.py\", line 1163, in open\n    r = urllib_request.urlopen(*urlopen_args)\n  File \"/usr/lib64/python2.7/urllib2.py\", line 154, in urlopen\n    return opener.open(url, data, timeout)\n  File \"/usr/lib64/python2.7/urllib2.py\", line 431, in open\n    response = self._open(req, data)\n  File \"/usr/lib64/python2.7/urllib2.py\", line 449, in _open\n    '_open', req)\n  File \"/usr/lib64/python2.7/urllib2.py\", line 409, in _call_chain\n    result = func(*args)\n  File \"/tmp/ansible_uri_payload_nEptqB/ansible_uri_payload.zip/ansible/module_utils/urls.py\", line 356, in https_open\n    return self.do_open(CustomHTTPSConnection, req)\n  File \"/usr/lib64/python2.7/urllib2.py\", line 1211, in do_open\n    h.request(req.get_method(), req.get_selector(), req.data, headers)\n  File \"/usr/lib64/python2.7/httplib.py\", line 1056, in request\n    self._send_request(method, url, body, headers)\n  File \"/usr/lib64/python2.7/httplib.py\", line 1090, in _send_request\n    self.endheaders(body)\n  File \"/usr/lib64/python2.7/httplib.py\", line 1052, in endheaders\n    self._send_output(message_body)\n  File \"/usr/lib64/python2.7/httplib.py\", line 894, in _send_output\n    self.send(message_body)\n  File \"/usr/lib64/python2.7/httplib.py\", line 866, in send\n    self.sock.sendall(data)\n  File \"/usr/lib64/python2.7/ssl.py\", line 744, in sendall\n    v = self.send(data[count:])\nTypeError: unhashable type\n",
    "url": "https://api.eu.cloud.talend.com/tmc/v1.3/runtimes/remote-engines",
    "changed": false,
    "elapsed": 1,
    "content": "",
    "invocation": {
        "module_args": {
            "directory_mode": null,
            "force": false,
            "remote_src": null,
            "status_code": [
                200
            ],
            "follow": false,
            "owner": null,
            "body_format": "raw",
            "body-format": "json",
            "client_key": null,
            "group": null,
            "use_proxy": true,
            "headers": {
                "Accept": "application/json",
                "Authorization": "Basic <censored>"
            },
            "unsafe_writes": null,
            "setype": null,
            "content": null,
            "serole": null,
            "follow_redirects": "safe",
            "return_content": false,
            "client_cert": null,
            "body": {
                "name": "RHEL_X.X.X.X_AZGLGBNEVTA30_PRODUCTION_C4E"
            },
            "timeout": 30,
            "src": null,
            "dest": null,
            "selevel": null,
            "force_basic_auth": true,
            "removes": null,
            "http_agent": "ansible-httpget",
            "regexp": null,
            "status-code": 201,
            "url_password": null,
            "url": "https://api.eu.cloud.talend.com/tmc/v1.3/runtimes/remote-engines",
            "validate_certs": true,
            "seuser": null,
            "method": "POST",
            "creates": null,
            "unix_socket": null,
            "delimiter": null,
            "mode": null,
            "url_username": null,
            "attributes": null,
            "backup": null
        }
    },
    "redirected": false,
    "msg": "Status code was -1 and not [200]: An unknown error occurred: unhashable type",
    "_ansible_no_log": false
}

This is the Ansible version:

ansible --version
ansible 2.9.4
  config file = /etc/ansible/ansible.cfg
  configured module search path = [u'/home/jason_ho/.ansible/plugins/modules', u'/usr/share/ansible/plugins/modules']
  ansible python module location = /usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/ansible
  executable location = /usr/bin/ansible
  python version = 2.7.5 (default, Jun 11 2019, 14:33:56) [GCC 4.8.5 20150623 (Red Hat 4.8.5-39)]

This is running through AWX 9.1.1

Is it a bug or something else I'm doing wrong?

As noted below, you need to change 'status-code: 201' to 'status_code: 201'. Having that parameter spelled incorrectly would use the defaults - and "200" is the default as you mentioned below. When you do fix this, does the playbook work as expected now? — dan_linder

dan_linder dan_linder · Accepted Answer · 2020-02-14T03:45:58

Your syntax is incorrect. The correct variable is status_code, not status-code.

(An "underline" and not a "dash": https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/modules/uri_module.html)

TypeError: unhashable type despite using body-format: json in uri: task

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