BugFix: Jinja template always passes in string, allowed find_ids method to account for that (#132)

Author: FragmentedPacket

plugins/module_utils/netbox_utils.py

@@ -567,6 +567,15 @@ def _find_ids(self, data):
                     query_params = {QUERY_TYPES.get(k, "q"): search}
                     query_id = self._nb_endpoint_get(nb_endpoint, query_params, k)
 
+                # Code to work around Ansible templating converting all values to strings
+                # This should allow users to pass in IDs obtained from previous tasks
+                # without causing the module to fail
+                if isinstance(v, str):
+                    try:
+                        v = int(v)
+                    except ValueError:
+                        pass
+
                 if isinstance(v, list):
                     data[k] = id_list
                 elif isinstance(v, int):