[PR #6923/7020b27b backport][stable-6] cobbler inventory plugin: Conv…

…ert unicode to str (#6952)

cobbler inventory plugin: Convert unicode to str (#6923)

* plugins/inventory/cobbler: Convert unicode to str

* plugins/inventory/cobbler: Use text_type instead

(cherry picked from commit 7020b27)

Co-authored-by: Algirdas <76789112+Algirdas-Z@users.noreply.github.com>

changelogs/fragments/6923-cobbler-inventory_unicode.yml

@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+minor_changes:
+  - cobbler inventory plugin - convert Ansible unicode strings to native Python unicode strings before passing user/password to XMLRPC client (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/6923).

plugins/inventory/cobbler.py

@@ -87,6 +87,7 @@
 from ansible.module_utils.common.text.converters import to_text
 from ansible.module_utils.six import iteritems
 from ansible.plugins.inventory import BaseInventoryPlugin, Cacheable, to_safe_group_name
+from ansible.module_utils.six import text_type
 
 # xmlrpc
 try:
@@ -128,7 +129,7 @@ def _get_connection(self):
             self.connection = xmlrpc_client.Server(self.cobbler_url, allow_none=True)
             self.token = None
             if self.get_option('user') is not None:
-                self.token = self.connection.login(self.get_option('user'), self.get_option('password'))
+                self.token = self.connection.login(text_type(self.get_option('user')), text_type(self.get_option('password')))
         return self.connection
 
     def _init_cache(self):