vault: check dir existence before creating a file (#40010)

lib/ansible/parsing/vault/__init__.py

@@ -78,6 +78,7 @@ from ansible.module_utils.six import PY3, binary_type
 # Note: on py2, this zip is izip not the list based zip() builtin
 from ansible.module_utils.six.moves import zip
 from ansible.module_utils._text import to_bytes, to_text, to_native
+from ansible.utils.path import makedirs_safe
 
 try:
     from __main__ import display
@@ -925,6 +926,11 @@ class VaultEditor:
     def create_file(self, filename, secret, vault_id=None):
         """ create a new encrypted file """
 
+        dirname = os.path.dirname(filename)
+        if not os.path.exists(dirname):
+            display.warning("%s does not exist, creating..." % dirname)
+            makedirs_safe(dirname)
+
         # FIXME: If we can raise an error here, we can probably just make it
         # behave like edit instead.
         if os.path.isfile(filename):