Adjust regex pattern to upstream & remove useless character conversion

Author: mabezi

plugins/module_utils/netbox_secrets.py

@@ -36,7 +36,8 @@ def run(self):
         # Used for msg output
         name = data.get("name")
 
-        data["slug"] = self._to_slug(name)
+        if not data.get("slug"):
+            data["slug"] = self._to_slug(name)
 
         object_query_params = self._build_query_params(
             endpoint_name, data, user_query_params

plugins/module_utils/netbox_utils.py

@@ -1351,7 +1351,7 @@ def _find_ids(self, data, user_query_params):
                             "tenants",
                             "tags",
                         ) and isinstance(list_item, str):
-                            temp_dict = {"slug": self._to_slug(list_item)}
+                            temp_dict = {"slug": list_item}
                         elif isinstance(list_item, dict):
                             norm_data = self._normalize_data(list_item)
                             temp_dict = self._build_query_params(
@@ -1424,10 +1424,11 @@ def _to_slug(self, value):
             return value
         elif isinstance(value, int):
             return value
-        else:
-            removed_chars = re.sub(r"[^\-\.\w\s]", "", value)
-            convert_chars = re.sub(r"[\-\.\s]", "-", removed_chars)
-            return convert_chars.strip().lower()
+
+        value = re.sub(r"[^\-.\w\s]", "", value)
+        value = re.sub(r"^[\s.]+|[\s.]+$", "", value)
+        value = re.sub(r"[-.\s]+", "-", value)
+        return value.strip().lower()
 
     def _normalize_data(self, data):
         """