Since 6.10.0: New args rule broken for most windows modules. (Unable to load module <most windows modules> for options validation)

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Summary

When linting playbooks with newer versions of ansible lint this message is printed for windows modules:

Unable to load module <most windows modules> for options validation

The last working version is 6.9.1 - The issue shows up since 6.10.0!

Issue Type

• Bug Report

OS / ENVIRONMENT

ansible-lint --version
ansible-lint 6.14.2 using ansible 2.14.2

• ansible installation method: one of source, pip, OS package -> pip
• ansible-lint installation method: one of source, pip, OS package -> pip

STEPS TO REPRODUCE

Install collection ansible.windows then lint the following playbook:

---
- name: Configure Windows Systems
  hosts: all
  tasks:
    - name: Create software directory
      ansible.windows.win_file:
        path: "c:\\testdir"
        state: directory

ansible-lint playbook.yml
root@60f15304ae34:/tmp/poc# ansible-galaxy collection list

# /usr/share/ansible/collections/ansible_collections
Collection                      Version
------------------------------- -------
ansible.windows                 1.13.0
community.crypto                2.10.0
community.general               6.3.0
community.mysql                 3.6.0
community.vmware                2.10.3
community.windows               1.12.0

Desired Behavior

The linter should not produce a warning.

Actual Behavior

root@60f15304ae34:/tmp/poc# ansible-lint playbook.yml
WARNING  Unable to load module ansible.windows.win_file at playbook.yml:5 for options validation

Passed with production profile: 0 failure(s), 0 warning(s) on 1 files.

root@60f15304ae34:/tmp/poc# ansible-lint -vvv playbook.yml
DEBUG    Logging initialized to level 10
DEBUG    Options: Namespace(cache_dir='/root/.cache/ansible-compat/18889a', colored=True, configured=True, cwd=PosixPath('/tmp/poc'), display_relative_path=True, exclude_paths=['.cache', '.git', '.hg', '.svn', '.tox'], format=None, lintables=['playbook.yml'], list_rules=False, list_tags=False, write_list=None, parseable=False, quiet=0, rulesdirs=['/usr/local/lib/python3.11/site-packages/ansiblelint/rules'], skip_list=[], tags=[], verbosity=3, warn_list=['experimental', 'jinja[spacing]'], kinds=[{'jinja2': '**/*.j2'}, {'jinja2': '**/*.j2.*'}, {'yaml': '.github/**/*.{yaml,yml}'}, {'text': '**/templates/**/*.*'}, {'execution-environment': '**/execution-environment.yml'}, {'ansible-lint-config': '**/.ansible-lint'}, {'ansible-lint-config': '**/.config/ansible-lint.yml'}, {'ansible-navigator-config': '**/ansible-navigator.{yaml,yml}'}, {'inventory': '**/inventory/**.{yaml,yml}'}, {'requirements': '**/meta/requirements.{yaml,yml}'}, {'galaxy': '**/galaxy.yml'}, {'reno': '**/releasenotes/*/*.{yaml,yml}'}, {'tasks': '**/tasks/**/*.{yaml,yml}'}, {'rulebook': '**/rulebooks/*.{yml,yaml'}, {'playbook': '**/playbooks/*.{yml,yaml}'}, {'playbook': '**/*playbook*.{yml,yaml}'}, {'role': '**/roles/*/'}, {'handlers': '**/handlers/*.{yaml,yml}'}, {'vars': '**/{host_vars,group_vars,vars,defaults}/**/*.{yaml,yml}'}, {'test-meta': '**/tests/integration/targets/*/meta/main.{yaml,yml}'}, {'meta': '**/meta/main.{yaml,yml}'}, {'meta-runtime': '**/meta/runtime.{yaml,yml}'}, {'arg_specs': '**/meta/argument_specs.{yaml,yml}'}, {'yaml': '.config/molecule/config.{yaml,yml}'}, {'requirements': '**/molecule/*/{collections,requirements}.{yaml,yml}'}, {'yaml': '**/molecule/*/{base,molecule}.{yaml,yml}'}, {'requirements': '**/requirements.{yaml,yml}'}, {'playbook': '**/molecule/*/*.{yaml,yml}'}, {'yaml': '**/{.ansible-lint,.yamllint}'}, {'changelog': '**/changelogs/changelog.yaml'}, {'yaml': '**/*.{yaml,yml}'}, {'yaml': '**/.*.{yaml,yml}'}, {'sanity-ignore-file': '**/tests/sanity/ignore-*.txt'}], mock_filters=[], mock_modules=[], mock_roles=[], loop_var_prefix=None, only_builtins_allow_collections=[], only_builtins_allow_modules=[], var_naming_pattern=None, offline=None, project_dir='.', extra_vars=None, enable_list=[], skip_action_validation=True, strict=False, rules={}, profile=None, task_name_prefix='{stem} | ', sarif_file=None, list_profiles=False, progressive=False, rulesdir=[], use_default_rules=False, generate_ignore=False, config_file=None, ignore_file=None, version=False, cache_dir_lock=<filelock._unix.UnixFileLock object at 0x7fdd70199650>)
DEBUG    /tmp/poc
DEBUG    Effective yamllint rules used: {'braces': {'level': 'error', 'forbid': False, 'min-spaces-inside': 0, 'max-spaces-inside': 1, 'min-spaces-inside-empty': -1, 'max-spaces-inside-empty': -1}, 'brackets': {'level': 'error', 'forbid': False, 'min-spaces-inside': 0, 'max-spaces-inside': 0, 'min-spaces-inside-empty': -1, 'max-spaces-inside-empty': -1}, 'colons': {'level': 'error', 'max-spaces-before': 0, 'max-spaces-after': 1}, 'commas': {'level': 'error', 'max-spaces-before': 0, 'min-spaces-after': 1, 'max-spaces-after': 1}, 'comments': {'level': 'warning', 'require-starting-space': True, 'ignore-shebangs': True, 'min-spaces-from-content': 1}, 'comments-indentation': False, 'document-end': False, 'document-start': False, 'empty-lines': {'level': 'error', 'max': 2, 'max-start': 0, 'max-end': 0}, 'empty-values': False, 'float-values': False, 'hyphens': {'level': 'error', 'max-spaces-after': 1}, 'indentation': {'level': 'error', 'spaces': 'consistent', 'indent-sequences': True, 'check-multi-line-strings': False}, 'key-duplicates': {'level': 'error'}, 'key-ordering': False, 'line-length': {'level': 'error', 'max': 160, 'allow-non-breakable-words': True, 'allow-non-breakable-inline-mappings': False}, 'new-line-at-end-of-file': {'level': 'error'}, 'new-lines': {'level': 'error', 'type': 'unix'}, 'octal-values': {'forbid-implicit-octal': True, 'forbid-explicit-octal': True, 'level': 'error'}, 'quoted-strings': False, 'trailing-spaces': {'level': 'error'}, 'truthy': {'level': 'warning', 'allowed-values': ['true', 'false'], 'check-keys': True}}
INFO     Set ANSIBLE_LIBRARY=/root/.cache/ansible-compat/18889a/modules:/root/.ansible/plugins/modules:/usr/share/ansible/plugins/modules
INFO     Set ANSIBLE_COLLECTIONS_PATH=/root/.cache/ansible-compat/18889a/collections:/root/.ansible/collections:/usr/share/ansible/collections
INFO     Set ANSIBLE_ROLES_PATH=/root/.cache/ansible-compat/18889a/roles:/root/.ansible/roles:/usr/share/ansible/roles:/etc/ansible/roles
INFO     Executing syntax check on playbook playbook.yml (0.54s)
DEBUG    Examining playbook.yml of type playbook
WARNING  Unable to load module ansible.windows.win_file at playbook.yml:5 for options validation
DEBUG    Attempting to release lock 140589045225040 on /root/.cache/ansible-compat/18889a/.lock
DEBUG    Lock 140589045225040 released on /root/.cache/ansible-compat/18889a/.lock

DEBUG    Determined rule-profile order: {'internal-error': (0, 'min'), 'load-failure': (1, 'min'), 'parser-error': (2, 'min'), 'syntax-check': (3, 'min'), 'command-instead-of-module': (4, 'basic'), 'command-instead-of-shell': (5, 'basic'), 'deprecated-bare-vars': (6, 'basic'), 'deprecated-local-action': (7, 'basic'), 'deprecated-module': (8, 'basic'), 'inline-env-var': (9, 'basic'), 'key-order': (10, 'basic'), 'literal-compare': (11, 'basic'), 'jinja': (12, 'basic'), 'no-free-form': (13, 'basic'), 'no-jinja-when': (14, 'basic'), 'no-tabs': (15, 'basic'), 'partial-become': (16, 'basic'), 'playbook-extension': (17, 'basic'), 'role-name': (18, 'basic'), 'schema': (19, 'basic'), 'name': (20, 'basic'), 'var-naming': (21, 'basic'), 'yaml': (22, 'basic'), 'name[template]': (23, 'moderate'), 'name[imperative]': (24, 'moderate'), 'name[casing]': (25, 'moderate'), 'spell-var-name': (26, 'moderate'), 'avoid-implicit': (27, 'safety'), 'latest': (28, 'safety'), 'package-latest': (29, 'safety'), 'risky-file-permissions': (30, 'safety'), 'risky-octal': (31, 'safety'), 'risky-shell-pipe': (32, 'safety'), 'galaxy': (33, 'shared'), 'ignore-errors': (34, 'shared'), 'layout': (35, 'shared'), 'meta-incorrect': (36, 'shared'), 'meta-no-info': (37, 'shared'), 'meta-no-tags': (38, 'shared'), 'meta-video-links': (39, 'shared'), 'meta-version': (40, 'shared'), 'meta-runtime': (41, 'shared'), 'no-changed-when': (42, 'shared'), 'no-changelog': (43, 'shared'), 'no-handler': (44, 'shared'), 'no-relative-paths': (45, 'shared'), 'max-block-depth': (46, 'shared'), 'max-tasks': (47, 'shared'), 'unsafe-loop': (48, 'shared'), 'avoid-dot-notation': (49, 'production'), 'sanity': (50, 'production'), 'fqcn': (51, 'production'), 'import-task-no-when': (52, 'production'), 'meta-no-dependencies': (53, 'production'), 'single-entry-point': (54, 'production'), 'use-loop': (55, 'production')}
Passed with production profile: 0 failure(s), 0 warning(s) on 1 files.

Regarding older versions:

root@60f15304ae34:/tmp/poc# ansible-lint playbook.yml

Passed with production profile: 0 failure(s), 0 warning(s) on 1 files.
A new release of ansible-lint is available: 6.9.1 → 6.14.2

root@60f15304ae34:/tmp/poc# ansible-lint playbook.yml
WARNING  Unable to load module ansible.windows.win_file at playbook.yml:5 for options validation

Passed with production profile: 0 failure(s), 0 warning(s) on 1 files.
A new release of ansible-lint is available: 6.10.0 → 6.14.2

See also:
#2828

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If I skip the new args rule, the warning disappears. The issue seems to be around here:
https://github.com/ansible/ansible-lint/blob/main/src/ansiblelint/rules/args.py#L132

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FYI: @ganeshrn as you have written the new module.