Rebase PR #898 (#905) (#912)

This is a backport of PR #905 as merged into main (d329e7e).
This PR is a rebase of #898 for CI to pass
Thanks @efussi for your collaboration.
Closes #892

Reviewed-by: Bianca Henderson <beeankha@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Bikouo Aubin

changelogs/fragments/898-k8s-dont-delete-in-check-mode.yaml

@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+---
+bugfixes:
+  - module_utils/k8s/service - fix issue when trying to delete resource using `delete_options` and `check_mode=true` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/kubernetes.core/issues/892).

plugins/module_utils/k8s/service.py

@@ -476,7 +476,7 @@ class K8sService:
         if label_selectors:
             params["label_selector"] = ",".join(label_selectors)
 
-        if delete_options:
+        if delete_options and not self.module.check_mode:
             body = {
                 "apiVersion": "v1",
                 "kind": "DeleteOptions",

tests/integration/targets/k8s_delete/tasks/main.yml

@@ -152,6 +152,27 @@
       register: _deployment
       failed_when: _deployment.resources | length == 0
 
+    - name: Trying to delete nginx deployment in check mode and with deleteOptions set
+      k8s:
+        kind: Deployment
+        api_version: apps/v1
+        namespace: "{{ test_namespace }}"
+        name: nginx-d
+        state: absent
+        delete_options:
+          propagationPolicy: Foreground
+      check_mode: true
+      register: _delete
+
+    - name: Validate that Deployment nginx-d still exists
+      k8s_info:
+        kind: Deployment
+        api_version: apps/v1
+        namespace: "{{ test_namespace }}"
+        name: nginx-d
+      register: _deployment
+      failed_when: _deployment.resources | length != 1
+
     - name: Trying to delete using delete_all=true but missing kind option
       k8s:
         api_version: apps/v1