Problem: CLI Arg in task only in JSON format

[Tristan-Theroux]

Issue

It would be great to not have to write in JSON the CLI args when running a task.

Currently to limit an Ansible playbooK I need to do :

But if I add the arg in the task template, it works without being in JSON format :

The goal would be to be able to limit the scope of an ansible playbook easily like in CLI without having to format in JSON every time.

Impact

Web-Frontend (what users interact with), Ansible (task execution), Configuration

Installation method

Package

Database

MySQL

Browser

Chrome

Semaphore Version

2.10.22-e44910d-1721658299

Ansible Version

ansible [core 2.14.14]

Logs & errors

No response

Manual installation - system information

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Configuration

Inventory / task scope limitation.

Additional information

No response

[fiftin]

Hi @SysAdminShed

You are right. Looks like new args UI works not as expected :)

[Tristan-Theroux]

Wanted to add the following :

When adding multiple limit of the scope (with proper JSON format), it gives the following error :

9:51:06 AM ERROR! the playbook: Producer could not be found

JSON format used : ["-l", "benchtest","benchtest2"]

[kingp0dd]

i tried limiting host by

["-l", "host"]

but getting error

ERROR! the playbook: ["-l", "host"] could not be found

[Tristan-Theroux]

Don't use the JSON format, just input the -l host.

Best,

On Fri, Nov 1, 2024, 5:44 a.m. kingp0dd @.***> wrote:

i tried limiting host by

["-l", "host"]

but getting error

ERROR! the playbook: ["-l", "host"] could not be found

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[kingp0dd]

that worked thank you

On Fri, Nov 1, 2024 at 7:38 PM Tristan Theroux @.***> wrote:

Don't use the JSON format, just input the -l host.

Best,

On Fri, Nov 1, 2024, 5:44 a.m. kingp0dd @.> wrote:

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>
> ["-l", "host"]
>
> but getting error
>
> ERROR! the playbook: ["-l", "host"] could not be found
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[CryptoFewka]

Odd behavior discovered today: This works: -l groupName This fails: --limit groupName

The error message received is: ERROR! the playbook: --limit groupName could not be found

It seems that the template's CLI args field cannot handle --limit, though -limit and -l both work.

[CryptoFewka]

This also means that things like --skip-tags and --vault-password-file won't work currently when defined in CLI Args.