Feature parse parents attribute as list

[msekania]

Improve Fix/Solve #515

Pull request type

if parents attribute is provided in attributes or update_attributes of host or folder module parses files as list

• Bugfix
• Feature
• Code style update (formatting, renaming)
• Refactoring (no functional changes, no API changes)
• Build related changes
• Documentation content changes
• Other (please describe):

What is the current behavior?

#515
if one provides parents: test it would be parsed as ['t', 'e', 's', 't'] (because parents awaits list as a parameter)
now it will be parsed as ['test']

What is the new behavior?

• if parents gets a string (or some other type) as a parameter ansible utils will take care that it will be interpreted as a list

Other information

[msekania]

@lgetwan, @robin-checkmk ,

this PR can be merged right away, before #536

[robin-checkmk]

Thanks for the fix @msekania! I will leave it up to @lgetwan to review the actual code, but I am very happy, then we got a handle on this!

[lgetwan]

This change also seems to be picked into your other PR #539. I reviewed it there, but it looks slightly different, there: You're using a list FOLDER_PARENTS_PARSE, there, which even looks better.
I'm not sure how to solve this without messing with git.

[msekania]

This change also seems to be picked into your other PR #539. I reviewed it there, but it looks slightly different, there: You're using a list FOLDER_PARENTS_PARSE, there, which even looks better. I'm not sure how to solve this without messing with git.

@lgetwan,

I have modified it accordingly

[lgetwan]

This PR should be merged after #539. When doing this, we might get a minor merge conflict in the folder.py, but never mind.

[lgetwan]

Thanks for implementing this, Michael!