I think you have missed part of the ansible concept, and is mixing up where
you loop through the variables. It sounds like you want to call a program
that is looping through something you mention in a group_var file, whereas
the plugin should just take a single parameter, and do its thing atomically
with just the set of options that has been explicitly sent to it.
What you need to do, is to write a wrapper (playbook or role, which is
using your plugin).
* The way that your plugin gets data, is per command line parameters. Your
module will not really know much about the group vars at all. A plugin is
not meant to loop over the ansible host file, or your inventory, an array
from group_vars or anything like it. That is done in a role or a playbook.
In your example, you should rather use your playbook or role as (just
making up an example):
name: do stuff
myPlugin: credential={{ some_variable }} target_url={{ item }}
with_items:
- https://url1.com
- https://url2.com
or
name: do stuff
myPlugin: credential={{ some_variable }} target_url={{ item }}
with_items: "{{ some_array_in_my_group_vars }}"
//magnus
Den torsdag 3 oktober 2019 kl. 14:52:23 UTC+2 skrev Alexandru Obretin:
>
> Hello,
>
> I am developing some custom Ansible modules used for configuring network
> TAPs and they basically rely on a HTTP connection. Therefore, I have
> designed a httapi plugin module and I want to get the group_vars
> information associated to the current host directly from my custom
> module_utils file. In other words, just before I send HTTP requests to my
> equipment I need to read the group_vars for that particular IP address in
> order to set the user/password/timeout and other variables to the request.
>
> So far I have achieved this task using "ansible-invetory --list" but this
> does not consider scenarios like using a specific inventory file other than
> /etc/ansible/hosts or defining vars directly inside the playbook.
>
> Is there another way to access the group vars from my module_utils/network
> custom implementation or from plugins/httpapi?
>
> Regards,
> Alex
>
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