tasks with lists of data are not idempotent

[cardoe]

ISSUE TYPE

Bug Report

SOFTWARE VERSIONS

pynautobot

2.6.1

Ansible:

ansible-core==2.18.4

Nautobot:

2.4.5

Collection:

Collection Version

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community.general 10.4.0
networktocode.nautobot 5.9.0

SUMMARY

So main example I see this with is content_type. For example if I create a location_type and supply it a list of content_type. If my list isn't ordered the same way that the API returns it back then the ansible module will report that a change was made every single time.

STEPS TO REPRODUCE

- name: Test
  networktocode.nautobot.location_type:
    name: "test"
    description: "test"
    content_types:
      - "dcim.device"
      - "dcim.rack"
      - "dcim.rackgroup"
      - "ipam.namespace"
      - "ipam.prefix"
      - "ipam.vlangroup"
      - "ipam.vlan"
    nestable: "false"
    state: present

EXPECTED RESULTS

This task should run each time and not show any changes.

ACTUAL RESULTS

The content_types show a change every time.

[joewesch]

Thanks for reporting the issue. I can confirm this by using the demo site and any 2 non-alphabetically sorted content types:

    - name: Create Location Type
      networktocode.nautobot.location_type:
        url: "https://demo.nautobot.com"
        token: "aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa"
        name: "Test Location Type"
        content_types:
          - "ipam.prefix"
          - "dcim.device"
        state: present