Updated utils to remove Avi SDK dependency and Avi 18.2.2 version upd…

…ate (ansible#54894)

* Updated utils to remove Avi SDK dependency and Avi 18.2.2 version update

* Fixed the python 3.x errors failing for avi_disable_session_cache_as_fact not properly documented

* Updated version added fields for new parameters

* fixed pep8 errors

* made requests import optional

* removed setting requests to None

* Added try catch for the avi helper methods such that any import fails then module fail gracefully. This was needed to pass the requests library not found error

* removed deprecated modules. Also, trying another fix to deal with requests import error

* Fixed python3 errors

* fixed pep8, no-dict-iteritems and import test failures

* added version 2.8 for new field

* some more code cleanup and formatting

* updated the fail message and fixed plint errors

* added workaround for unicode pylint

* fixed the version added for new parameter app_learning_memory_percent and removed unicode_literals import

* Removed check of HAS_AVI for common argument spec

* Updated version added value from 2.8 to 2.9

* Version added value fixes of CI error

lib/ansible/module_utils/network/avi/avi.py

@@ -32,59 +32,7 @@
 # avi.sdk.
 
 from __future__ import absolute_import
-import os
-from distutils.version import LooseVersion
 
-HAS_AVI = True
-try:
-    import avi.sdk
-    sdk_version = getattr(avi.sdk, '__version__', None)
-    if ((sdk_version is None) or (sdk_version and (LooseVersion(sdk_version) < LooseVersion('17.2.4')))):
-        # It allows the __version__ to be '' as that value is used in development builds
-        raise ImportError
-    from avi.sdk.utils.ansible_utils import avi_ansible_api
-except ImportError:
-    HAS_AVI = False
-
-
-def avi_common_argument_spec():
-    """
-    Returns common arguments for all Avi modules
-    :return: dict
-    """
-    return dict(
-        controller=dict(default=os.environ.get('AVI_CONTROLLER', '')),
-        username=dict(default=os.environ.get('AVI_USERNAME', '')),
-        password=dict(default=os.environ.get('AVI_PASSWORD', ''), no_log=True),
-        tenant=dict(default='admin'),
-        tenant_uuid=dict(default=''),
-        api_version=dict(default='16.4.4'),
-        avi_credentials=dict(default=None, no_log=True, type='dict'),
-        api_context=dict(type='dict'))
-
-
-def ansible_return(module, rsp, changed, req=None, existing_obj=None,
-                   api_context=None):
-    """
-    Helper function to return the right ansible return based on the error code and
-    changed status.
-    :param module: AnsibleModule
-    :param rsp: ApiResponse from avi_api
-    :param changed: boolean
-    :param req: Actual req dictionary used in Avi API
-    :param existing_obj: Existing Avi resource. Used for allowing caller to do
-        diff if desired.
-    :param api_context: Avi API context information like CSRF token, session_id
-        used. This can be passed to the next API call to avoid re-login.
-
-    Returns: specific ansible module exit function
-    """
-    if rsp.status_code > 299:
-        return module.fail_json(msg='Error %d Msg %s req: %s api_context:%s ' % (
-            rsp.status_code, rsp.text, req, api_context))
-    if changed and existing_obj:
-        return module.exit_json(
-            changed=changed, obj=rsp.json(), old_obj=existing_obj,
-            api_context=api_context)
-    return module.exit_json(changed=changed, obj=rsp.json(),
-                            api_context=api_context)
+from ansible.module_utils.network.avi.ansible_utils import (
+    avi_ansible_api, avi_common_argument_spec, ansible_return,
+    avi_obj_cmp, cleanup_absent_fields, AviCheckModeResponse, HAS_AVI)