suppressing long job output like selective stdout callback

[sugitk]

ISSUE TYPE

• Feature Idea

SUMMARY

Web UI can fold/expand icon though, API cannot retrieve a partial job output. Unused job output needs to be suppressed in advance.

[AlanCoding]

Specifically you mean https://github.com/ansible/ansible/blob/devel/lib/ansible/plugins/callback/selective.py, right?

Related ansible/ansible-runner#387 and #4092

[sugitk]

Yes, the customer wants to do the same behavior as the selective plugin in Tower.
I think it is very similar to the issue #4092. This #5789 request is more flexible one.

[AlanCoding]

I've taken ansible/ansible-runner#387 out of draft status. The test addresses the selective callback specifically. After going back over the options, I see that this is possibly the most mature output reducing callback. There are still some interactive features that we cannot capture at the moment (the scrolling ...). For the moment, I would like to not bother that such a minute detail which would have major UI implications, as long as functionality works fine otherwise.

[nlvw]

@AlanCoding I saw that your code was merged but this doesn't seem to work in 19.3.0 when setting it in ansible.cfg.

I was hoping to use this to get around a combinations of bugs that completely break AWX (#10489 and #9961). If the selective callback can be used then the actual logging can be offloaded to ARA while AWX just shows failures and a summary.