juniper.device.command truncates the command output if it contains ##

[rahul-sundaresan]

Version 2.0.1
If a command output contains ##, the module will stop processing at that point and won't return anything after.
For eg:
On a device CLI, running show configuration | no-more prints the following

<previous stanza omitted for clarity>
forwarding-options {
            filter {
                input pm_wireshark1_L2;
                ##
                ## Warning: statement ignored: unsupported platform (mx960)
                ##
                output pm_wireshark1_L2;
            }
        }
<more to come, but I've omitted it>

I'm retrieving the config using

  - name: "Get committed configuration in conf format"
    juniper.device.command:
      commands:
        - "show configuration"
      timeout: 350
    register: show_conf

show_conf.stdout will contain all the config up until the ##. Anything after the warning stanza isn't present in show_conf.stdout

PS: The reason I'm not using juniper.device.config to retrieve the config is because it performs a config lock even if I'm reading the committed config

[rahul-sundaresan]

I found a workaround for this issue by using request shell execute. Now the full config is stored. Odd since the output from this contains the full config but juniper.device.command doesn't:

- name: Get committed configuration in conf format
  juniper.device.rpc:
    rpcs:
      - "request-shell-execute"
    kwargs:
      - command: cli -c 'show configuration | no-more'
  register: committed_conf

  - copy:
        dest: "some-dir/{{inventory_hostname}}-untouched.conf"
        content: "{{commited_conf.parsed_output['output']}}"