ansible/test/integration/roles/test_async/tasks/main.yml

# test code for the async keyword
# (c) 2014, James Tanner <tanner.jc@gmail.com>

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- name: run a 2 second loop
  shell: for i in $(seq 1 2); do echo $i ; sleep 1; done;
  async: 10
  poll: 1
  register: async_result


- debug: var=async_result

- name: validate async returns
  assert:
    that:
        - "'ansible_job_id' in async_result"
        - "'changed' in async_result"
        - "'cmd' in async_result"
        - "'delta' in async_result"
        - "'end' in async_result"
        - "'finished' in async_result"
        - "'rc' in async_result"
        - "'start' in async_result"
        - "'stderr' in async_result"
        - "'stdout' in async_result"
        - "'stdout_lines' in async_result"
        - "async_result.rc == 0"

- name: test async without polling
  command: sleep 5
  async: 30
  poll: 0
  register: async_result

- debug: var=async_result

- name: validate async without polling returns
  assert:
    that:
        - "'ansible_job_id' in async_result"
        - "'started' in async_result"
        - "'finished' not in async_result"

- name: test skipped task handling
  command: /bin/true 
  async: 15
  poll: 0
  when: False

# test async "fire and forget, but check later"

- name: 'start a task with "fire-and-forget"'
  command: sleep 15
  async: 30
  poll: 0
  register: fnf_task

- name: assert task was successfully started
  assert:
    that:
    - fnf_task.started
    - "'ansible_job_id' in fnf_task"

- name: 'check on task started as a "fire-and-forget"'
  async_status: jid={{ fnf_task.ansible_job_id }}
  register: fnf_result
  until: fnf_result.finished
  retries: 30

- name: assert task was successfully checked
  assert:
    that:
    - fnf_result.finished