vars_prompt within a role

[Nicholas Britton]

I am working on a project that will be mostly api based running locally and attaching to different environments via the api (uri module)

My plan was to create a role for each type of call that will be made, that way playbooks can be created to use any series of roles.   The problem i am running into is that i need to have the user provide data. For the few that will be ran non-interactivly i see the -e option overrides the same var that is prompted for, so that works when we need to run a playbook in that context.

From what i can tell it may not be possible to put  vars_prompt into the role and have that work.    Has anyone found a way to get this to work.

The biggest part of it is prompting for the servername that is part of the uri url.   I would like to not include this on every playbook , but as part of the login role that is always going to run.   That role is also asking for a user login and password.    That way we can keep application auditing intact , rather than using a service account.  

[Brian Coca]

vars_prompt is only available at play, you can however use `pause` and
register user input.


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Brian Coca

[Nicholas Britton]

Is that pause option available within a role?   Do you have some examples of that you would be willing to share?

[Matt Martz]

The pause module documentation has examples for use

Since it is a module, a role can execute it:

https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/modules/pause_module.html

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