Fix/improve typing. (#905)

plugins/module_utils/_crypto/module_backends/csr.py

@@ -144,7 +144,7 @@ class CertificateSigningRequestBackend(metaclass=abc.ABCMeta):
             )
 
         self.ordered_subject = False
-        self.subject = [
+        subject = [
             ("C", module.params["country_name"]),
             ("ST", module.params["state_or_province_name"]),
             ("L", module.params["locality_name"]),
@@ -153,7 +153,9 @@ class CertificateSigningRequestBackend(metaclass=abc.ABCMeta):
             ("CN", module.params["common_name"]),
             ("emailAddress", module.params["email_address"]),
         ]
-        self.subject = [(entry[0], entry[1]) for entry in self.subject if entry[1]]
+        self.subject: list[tuple[str, str]] = [
+            (entry[0], entry[1]) for entry in subject if entry[1]
+        ]
 
         try:
             if module.params["subject"]:

plugins/module_utils/_crypto/support.py

@@ -292,11 +292,27 @@ def load_certificate_request(
         raise OpenSSLObjectError(exc) from exc
 
 
+@t.overload
+def parse_name_field(
+    input_dict: dict[str, list[str] | str],
+    *,
+    name_field_name: str | None = None,
+) -> list[tuple[str, str]]: ...
+
+
+@t.overload
 def parse_name_field(
     input_dict: dict[str, list[str | bytes] | str | bytes],
     *,
     name_field_name: str | None = None,
-) -> list[tuple[str, str | bytes]]:
+) -> list[tuple[str, str | bytes]]: ...
+
+
+def parse_name_field(
+    input_dict: dict[str, t.Any],
+    *,
+    name_field_name: str | None = None,
+) -> list:
     """Take a dict with key: value or key: list_of_values mappings and return a list of tuples"""
 
     def error_str(key: str) -> str:
@@ -328,11 +344,27 @@ def parse_name_field(
     return result
 
 
+@t.overload
+def parse_ordered_name_field(
+    input_list: list[dict[str, list[str] | str]],
+    *,
+    name_field_name: str,
+) -> list[tuple[str, str]]: ...
+
+
+@t.overload
 def parse_ordered_name_field(
     input_list: list[dict[str, list[str | bytes] | str | bytes]],
     *,
     name_field_name: str,
-) -> list[tuple[str, str | bytes]]:
+) -> list[tuple[str, str | bytes]]: ...
+
+
+def parse_ordered_name_field(
+    input_list: list[dict[str, t.Any]],
+    *,
+    name_field_name: str,
+) -> list:
     """Take a dict with key: value or key: list_of_values mappings and return a list of tuples"""
 
     result = []