salt-call publish.runner with arguments from a minion

[Edu Herraiz]

Hello,

I have a functional custom runnner with 3 arguments.

I can run the runner in the master, and works properly:

salt-run myrunner.function arg1 arg2 127.0.0.1

The problem is I can't found the way to publish the runner from a minion.

I' tried a lot of combinations, like:

salt-call publish.runner myrunner.function 'arg1,arg2,127.0.0.1' timeout=300

salt-call publish.runner myrunner.function 'arg1 arg2 127.0.0.1' timeout=300

salt-call publish.runner myrunner.function arg1 arg2 127.0.0.1 timeout=300

salt-call publish.runner myrunner.function arg='arg1','arg2','127.0.0.1' timeout=300

salt-call publish.runner myrunner.function arg=['arg1','arg2','127.0.0.1'] timeout=300

salt-call publish.runner myrunner.function arg="['arg1','arg2','127.0.0.1']" timeout=300

but always I have the same error (in the master logs):

2015-03-17 17:23:13,828 [salt.master      ][ERROR   ] Error in function minion_runner:

Traceback (most recent call last):

  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/salt/master.py", line 1336, in run_func

    ret = getattr(self, func)(load)

  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/salt/master.py", line 1206, in minion_runner

    return self.masterapi.minion_runner(clear_load)

  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/salt/daemons/masterapi.py", line 803, in minion_runner

    return runner.run()

  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/salt/runner.py", line 234, in run

    self.opts['fun'], self.opts['arg'], self.opts)

  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/salt/runner.py", line 123, in cmd

    return self.functions[fun](*args, **kwargs)

TypeError: restore() takes exactly 3 arguments (1 given)

In the documentation is not clear how we can use the publish.runner with arguments.

It is possible?

Thank you

[Stephen Spencer]

What does your peer configuration look like?

-S

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[Edu Herraiz]

Looks like:

peer_run:
    myhost*:
        - myrunner.*



It seems like the runner is executed, but can't read the arguments.

- Edu

[Carolyn Van Slyck]

I am running into the same problem. The minion is allowed to execute the runner, and it is attempting to execute it on the master but is failing when parsing the arguments.

What is the correct syntax to pass arguments publish.runner?

[Carolyn Van Slyck]

I was never able to figure out the syntax and since it is a custom runner, I simply changed my method signature to take a single argument which I then split

e.g.

salt-call publish.runner mycoolrunner.dostuff 'launch_codes,gps_coordinates'

def dostuff(arg)
    codes, gps = arg.split(',')
    # ... fire le missiles

[Colton Myers]

It looks like there's probably a bug here. Could one of you please create an issue on Github? Glad you found a workaround in the meantime.

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[Edu Herraiz]

Seems like the error was reported: https://github.com/saltstack/salt/issues/22136