# Request for feedback: support for realtime output pull request

**URL:** <https://forum.ansible.com/t/request-for-feedback-support-for-realtime-output-pull-request/14586>\
**Category:** Ansible Project\
**Created:** [February 18, 2014, 1:24am UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/request-for-feedback-support-for-realtime-output-pull-request/14586 "2014-02-18T01:24:45Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![Lorin\_Hochstein](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Lorin\_Hochstein](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Lorin_Hochstein)\
**Post date:** [February 18, 2014, 1:24am UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/request-for-feedback-support-for-realtime-output-pull-request/14586/1 "2014-02-18T01:24:45Z")

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Hi all:

I submitted a pull request to implement realtime output: [https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/6035/](https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/6035/)

Since the proposed patch is large, Michael suggested starting a thread on the mailing list to discuss it. I made an effort to summarize the impact in the pull request comment.

Let me know what you think.

Lorin

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**Author:** ![Adam\_Morris](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecae2f/32.png) [@Adam\_Morris](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Adam_Morris)\
**Post date:** [February 18, 2014, 6:27pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/request-for-feedback-support-for-realtime-output-pull-request/14586/2 "2014-02-18T18:27:35Z")

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I would have thought that this discussion belongs on the Ansible Development list rather than here.

I can see that this might be useful for debugging but would be rather horrible to look at when used with more than one host. What was the use case that prompted this for you?

Adam

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**Author:** ![Michael\_DeHaan1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/5e9695/32.png) [@Michael\_DeHaan1](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Michael_DeHaan1)\
**Post date:** [February 18, 2014, 6:30pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/request-for-feedback-support-for-realtime-output-pull-request/14586/3 "2014-02-18T18:30:57Z")

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Yeah my concern is that people will want to try on more than one host.

My thought would be that if this were implemented we might return the output taken from the last poll interval, but since we are often dealing with JSON and atomic modules that don’t return until they are done (i.e. there is no module.partial\_status in module common), it’s all kind of confusing/tricky.

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**Author:** ![Lorin\_Hochstein](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Lorin\_Hochstein](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Lorin_Hochstein)\
**Post date:** [February 19, 2014, 2:28am UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/request-for-feedback-support-for-realtime-output-pull-request/14586/4 "2014-02-19T02:28:39Z")

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Yeah, I didn’t realize that there was a development mailing list when I originally posted this. I’ll post it there instead.