How to test if playbook is being run interactively

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Hi

Somewhere halfway through one of our playbooks there is a ‘pause’ task that prompts for input:

  • name: Database restoration - timestamp selection
    pause:
    prompt: |
    Select the number of a backup date to restore from:

{% for ts in backup_timestamps_available %}
{{ (loop.index|string).ljust(8) ~ ‘%Y-%m-%d (%A) %H:%M:%S’ | strftime(ts) }}
{% endfor %}
echo: true
register: ts_select

when: db_restore

But in some scenarios this playbook is being run from a shell wrapper, which can be non-interactive, in which case this step will bail with:

[WARNING]: Not waiting for response to prompt as stdin is not interactive

I’d like to gracefully stop right at the beginning when db_restore is set but the play is not run interactively.

I can check in the shell wrapper, but that doens’t know about ansible extra vars.

Is there a way to check in the playbook for interactiveness?

thx

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No builtin way (yet) but you can setup a 'is_interactive' vars_prompt
with default to 'no', when non interactive it will always be 'no'