Feature: Set TaskParams i.e limit from an ExtractValue of an Integration

[MIJohnson]

Related to

Web-Backend (APIs)

Impact

nice to have

Missing Feature

Currently there is no way to limit (i.e --limit) the host/group that an task is executed for when the task triggered from an Integration, ideally based on a parameter from the integration request (ie ExtractValue)

This means that, currently, if you want to achieve this, you would have to create a separate Ansible Task for every Host/Group, and also a separate corresponding integration, this can cause quite a lot of unnecessary duplication when you have lots of customers to run separately.

Implementation

Add a controlled list qualifier to specify whether an extract value is for Environment or TaskParams, and populate the Task object accordingly.

Design

A new additional parameter VariableType could be added to IntegrationExtractValue to differentiate whether a value is intended for Environment or for TaskParams

type IntegrationVariableType string

const (
	IntegrationVariableEnvironment   IntegrationVariableType = "environment"
	IntegrationVariableTaskParam 	 IntegrationVariableType = "task"
)

type IntegrationExtractValue struct {
	ID            int                           `db:"id" json:"id" backup:"-"`
	IntegrationID int                           `db:"integration_id" json:"integration_id" backup:"-"`
	Name          string                        `db:"name" json:"name"`
	ValueSource   IntegrationExtractValueSource `db:"value_source" json:"value_source"`
	BodyDataType  IntegrationBodyDataType       `db:"body_data_type" json:"body_data_type"`
	Key           string                        `db:"key" json:"key"`
	Variable      string                        `db:"variable" json:"variable"`
	VariableType  IntegrationVariableType       `db:"variable_type" json:"variable_type"`
}

in the RunIntegration function we could separate the extraction of values into the corresponding Environment and TaskParams objects and pass them both into the Task creation so that limit (and other task variables) could be controlled.

[MIJohnson]

Please let me know if you are willing to consider a pull request for a working version of the above functionality.

[MIJohnson]

Pull request opened for this feature: #2918