Thanks, Matt!

On Tuesday, August 30, 2016 at 1:19:27 PM UTC-4, Matt Martz wrote:
>
> To my knowledge you cannot update hostvars directly from an action plugin, 
> primarily due to forking, and variable scope.  If you do find a place where 
> you could modify hostvars, they don't modify the real hostvars, just a copy 
> of it.
>
> The way that `set_fact` works, is by returning `ansible_facts` in the 
> result, and the executor merges it into hostvars.  Unfortunately 
> ansible_facts is per host, so if you are bypassing the host loop, all facts 
> will be set for all hosts, not just the host you want.
>
> On Tue, Aug 30, 2016 at 11:54 AM, Jim Ficarra <[email protected] 
> <javascript:>> wrote:
>
>> Anyone have some possible insight to this? Any thoughts are appreciated.
>>
>> Thanks!
>>
>>
>> On Monday, August 22, 2016 at 4:56:34 PM UTC-4, Jim Ficarra wrote:
>>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> I am building an ActionModule (bypassing the host loop) to query an 
>>> internal REST service that provides bulk metrics for a bunch of hosts at 
>>> once (for the hosts that are in play).  After getting the data back from 
>>> the call, I want to then populate the hostvars of the hosts returned with 
>>> filtered items from the data that correspond to each host.  The call is 
>>> made once to avoid repeated queries to the REST API.
>>>
>>> The ActionModule seems to work in the context of a single host. 
>>> Bypassing the host loop runs once, but adding data to the results simply 
>>> updates one of the hosts and not all.  Is there an object exposed from the 
>>> ActionModule, base classes or embedded objects that will let me iterate 
>>> over each hosts' vars/facts and update them?
>>>
>>> Ansible Version: 2.1.0.0 and 2.1.1.0
>>>
>>> Thanks in advance!
>>>
>>>
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