Bugfix/manageiq inventory (#720)

* Extending modules with resource_id

* Added documentation

* Revert previous PR

* Added filter for active vm's

* Added changelog fragment

* Update changelogs/fragments/720-cloudforms_inventory.yml

Co-authored-by: Felix Fontein <felix@fontein.de>

changelogs/fragments/720-cloudforms_inventory.yml

@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+bugfixes:
+  - cloudforms inventory - fixed issue that non-existing (archived) VMs were synced (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/720).

scripts/inventory/cloudforms.py

@@ -216,9 +216,9 @@ class CloudFormsInventory(object):
         parser.add_argument('--debug', action='store_true', default=False, help='Show debug output while running (default: False)')
         self.args = parser.parse_args()
 
-    def _get_json(self, url):
+    def _http_request(self, url):
         """
-        Make a request and return the JSON
+        Make a request and return the result converted from JSON
         """
         results = []
 
@@ -231,7 +231,8 @@ class CloudFormsInventory(object):
         try:
             results = json.loads(ret.text)
         except ValueError:
-            warnings.warn("Unexpected response from {0} ({1}): {2}".format(self.cloudforms_url, ret.status_code, ret.reason))
+            warnings.warn(
+                "Unexpected response from {0} ({1}): {2}".format(self.cloudforms_url, ret.status_code, ret.reason))
             results = {}
 
         if self.args.debug:
@@ -245,11 +246,18 @@ class CloudFormsInventory(object):
 
         return results
 
-    def _get_hosts(self):
+    def _get_json(self, endpoint, url_suffix):
         """
-        Get all hosts by paging through the results
+        Make a request by given url, split request by configured limit,
+        go through all sub-requests and return the aggregated data received
+        by cloudforms
+
+        :param endpoint: api endpoint to access
+        :param url_suffix: additional api parameters
+
         """
-        limit = self.cloudforms_limit
+
+        limit = int(self.cloudforms_limit)
 
         page = 0
         last_page = False
@@ -258,14 +266,35 @@ class CloudFormsInventory(object):
 
         while not last_page:
             offset = page * limit
-            ret = self._get_json("%s/api/vms?offset=%s&limit=%s&expand=resources,tags,hosts,&attributes=ipaddresses" % (self.cloudforms_url, offset, limit))
+            url = "%s%s?offset=%s&limit=%s%s" % (
-            results += ret['resources']
+                self.cloudforms_url, endpoint, offset, limit, url_suffix)
-            if ret['subcount'] < limit:
+
+            if self.args.debug:
+                print("Connecting to url '%s'" % url)
+
+            ret = self._http_request(url)
+            results += [ret]
+
+            if 'subcount' in ret:
+                if ret['subcount'] < limit:
+                    last_page = True
+                page += 1
+            else:
                 last_page = True
-            page += 1
 
         return results
 
+    def _get_hosts(self):
+        """
+        Get all hosts
+        """
+        endpoint = "/api/vms"
+        url_suffix = "&expand=resources,tags,hosts,&attributes=active,ipaddresses&filter[]=active=true"
+        results = self._get_json(endpoint, url_suffix)
+        resources = [item for sublist in results for item in sublist['resources']]
+
+        return resources
+
     def update_cache(self):
         """
         Make calls to cloudforms and save the output in a cache