Revert "Deprecate Entity, EntityCollection and use subspec in network modules (#33575)" (#33849)

This reverts commit 4349b56643.

lib/ansible/module_utils/network/nxos/nxos.py

@@ -32,7 +32,7 @@ import collections
 
 from ansible.module_utils._text import to_text
 from ansible.module_utils.basic import env_fallback, return_values
-from ansible.module_utils.network.common.utils import to_list
+from ansible.module_utils.network.common.utils import to_list, ComplexList
 from ansible.module_utils.connection import exec_command
 from ansible.module_utils.six import iteritems, string_types
 from ansible.module_utils.urls import fetch_url
@@ -399,6 +399,28 @@ def is_nxapi(module):
     return 'nxapi' in (transport, provider_transport)
 
 
+def to_command(module, commands):
+    if is_nxapi(module):
+        default_output = 'json'
+    else:
+        default_output = 'text'
+
+    transform = ComplexList(dict(
+        command=dict(key=True),
+        output=dict(default=default_output),
+        prompt=dict(),
+        answer=dict()
+    ), module)
+
+    commands = transform(to_list(commands))
+
+    for item in commands:
+        if is_json(item['command']):
+            item['output'] = 'json'
+
+    return commands
+
+
 def get_config(module, flags=None):
     flags = [] if flags is None else flags
 
@@ -408,20 +430,7 @@ def get_config(module, flags=None):
 
 def run_commands(module, commands, check_rc=True):
     conn = get_connection(module)
-
-    if is_nxapi(module):
-        default_output = 'json'
-    else:
-        default_output = 'text'
-
-    for index, cmd in enumerate(to_list(commands)):
-        if isinstance(cmd, string_types):
-            commands[index] = cmd = {'command': cmd, 'output': default_output}
-
-        if is_json(cmd['command']):
-            cmd['output'] = 'json'
-
-    return conn.run_commands(to_list(commands), check_rc)
+    return conn.run_commands(to_command(module, commands), check_rc)
 
 
 def load_config(module, config, return_error=False, opts=None):