Suppose you have one task that iterates and uses ‘until’ to do nothing but find out the final number of entries. Once you have that number you can do a second task to iterate again but now using a regular loop and use the results etc.
On Thu, 13 Jun 2019 at 06:01, innate new <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello Folks, > > I have a requirement to loop through an REST API, to get data, and I would > like to use ANSIBLE YAML. > > The API itself only renders 400 entries(limit) at a time and hence to get > the entire data set will need to loop through all offsets incrementing > every time by 400. > > Each time the api is called the resulting JSON has a key which tells > whether more results are available or not. > > The non-trivial piece for me: > > 1) The end count is unknown, hence cannot use loop or with_items/stride > etc. > 2) The condition to goto next increment is part of the resulting JSON from > API get. > > > I was able to make this work via python but want to use available URI > module to do the same. > > Any ideas are much appreciated! > > thanks > drake > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Ansible Project" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/ansible-project/69cd149d-77db-4d9f-b6af-61afed355071%40googlegroups.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/ansible-project/69cd149d-77db-4d9f-b6af-61afed355071%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- Sent from a mobile device - please excuse the brevity, spelling and punctuation. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ansible Project" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/ansible-project/CAL8fbwM45ERMsN01D_jtroB2%2BDeLLxcOOnsLm9M-M79uuoESGg%40mail.gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
