Getting ERROR: Unable to create event: 422 from k8s_event

[zeusng-fast]

We try to call k8s_event from our Ansible Operator, using v0.5.0 operator-sdk-ansible-util.

- name: Create Kubernetes Event
  k8s_event:
    state: present
    name: test-k8s-event
    namespace: dtest2
    message: "mycluster getting created Event created"
    reason: Testing event creation
    reportingComponent: Reporting components
    source:
      component: Metering components
    appendTimestamp: true
    type: Normal
    involvedObject:
      apiVersion: v2
      kind: MYCluster
      name: "nfdm"
      namespace: dtest2

and receive the following error

TASK [Create Kubernetes Event] ******************************** 
The full traceback is:
  File "/tmp/ansible_k8s_event_payload_emz5w5mf/ansible_k8s_event_payload.zip/ansible_collections/operator_sdk/util/plugins/modules/k8s_event.py", line 283, in execute_module
  File "/usr/local/lib/python3.8/site-packages/kubernetes/dynamic/client.py", line 119, in create
    return self.request('post', path, body=body, **kwargs)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python3.8/site-packages/kubernetes/dynamic/client.py", line 57, in inner
    raise api_exception(e)
fatal: [localhost]: FAILED! => {
    "changed": false,
    "invocation": {
        "module_args": {
            "api_key": null,
            "appendTimestamp": true,
            "ca_cert": null,
            "client_cert": null,
            "client_key": null,
            "context": null,
            "host": null,
            "involvedObject": {
                "apiVersion": "v2",
                "kind": "MYCluster",
                "name": "nfdm",
                "namespace": "dtest2"
            },
            "kubeconfig": null,
            "merge_type": null,
            "message": "mycluster getting created Event created",
            "name": "test-k8s-event.2023-07-19 05:53:16.108007+00:00",
            "namespace": "dtest2",
            "password": null,
            "persist_config": null,
            "proxy": null,
            "reason": "Testing event creation",
            "reportingComponent": "Reporting components",
            "source": {
                "component": "Metering components"
            },
            "state": "present",
            "type": "Normal",
            "username": null,
            "validate_certs": null
        }
    },
    "msg": "Unable to create event: 422\nReason: Unprocessable Entity\nHTTP response headers: HTTPHeaderDict({'Audit-Id': '6f22fb6d-242a-4884-b484-e119547c2d83', 'Cache-Control': 'no-cache, private', 'Content-Length': '484', 'Content-Type': 'application/json', 'Date': 'Wed, 19 Jul 2023 05:53:16 GMT', 'Strict-Transport-Security': 'max-age=31536000; includeSubDomains; preload', 'X-Kubernetes-Pf-Flowschema-Uid': 'c2be4a14-8cda-4aab-8a0e-4f6decf987a1', 'X-Kubernetes-Pf-Prioritylevel-Uid': '51d524af-e0da-4476-add1-66e61405e5e0'})\nHTTP response body: b'{\"kind\":\"Status\",\"apiVersion\":\"v1\",\"metadata\":{},\"status\":\"Failure\",\"message\":\"Event \\\\\"test-k8s-event.2023-07-19 05:53:16.108007+00:00\\\\\" is invalid: involvedObject.namespace: Invalid value: \\\\\"\\\\\": does not match event.namespace\",\"reason\":\"Invalid\",\"details\":{\"name\":\"test-k8s-event.2023-07-19 05:53:16.108007+00:00\",\"kind\":\"Event\",\"causes\":[{\"reason\":\"FieldValueInvalid\",\"message\":\"Invalid value: \\\\\"\\\\\": does not match event.namespace\",\"field\":\"involvedObject.namespace\"}]},\"code\":422}\\n'\nOriginal traceback: \n  File \"/usr/local/lib/python3.8/site-packages/kubernetes/dynamic/client.py\", line 55, in inner\n    resp = func(self, *args, **kwargs)\n\n  File \"/usr/local/lib/python3.8/site-packages/kubernetes/dynamic/client.py\", line 270, in request\n    api_response = self.client.call_api(\n\n  File \"/usr/local/lib/python3.8/site-packages/kubernetes/client/api_client.py\", line 348, in call_api\n    return self.__call_api(resource_path, method,\n\n  File \"/usr/local/lib/python3.8/site-packages/kubernetes/client/api_client.py\", line 180, in __call_api\n    response_data = self.request(\n\n  File \"/usr/local/lib/python3.8/site-packages/kubernetes/client/api_client.py\", line 391, in request\n    return self.rest_client.POST(url,\n\n  File \"/usr/local/lib/python3.8/site-packages/kubernetes/client/rest.py\", line 276, in POST\n    return self.request(\"POST\", url,\n\n  File \"/usr/local/lib/python3.8/site-packages/kubernetes/client/rest.py\", line 235, in request\n    raise ApiException(http_resp=r)\n"
}

[piec]

Hi just had the same issue, just remove appendTimestamp: true.

The implementation of appendTimestamp [source] is weird and makes an early return in the function, it doesn't include the involved_obj.