Awx: Smart Inventory filters aren't working correctly when using the GUI

[grahamn-gr]

ISSUE TYPE

• Bug Report

COMPONENT NAME

• UI

SUMMARY

There is a difference in what filters can be used on the GUI to the API.
The GUI rejects valid options that the API accepts and are valid.

ENVIRONMENT

• AWX version: 1.0.1.8
• AWX install method: docker on linux
• Ansible version: 2.4.0.0

STEPS TO REPRODUCE

Using the GUI, which fails:

1. Create a new Smart Inventory
2. Add a filter using "groups.name:GROUP1 or groups.name:GROUP2"

Using the API, which works:

1. Browse to api/v2/inventories/
2. POST:

{
"name": "Smart Inventory Test",
"description": "Testing",
"organization": 2,
"kind": "smart",
"host_filter": "groups__name=GROUP1 or groups__name=GROUP2",
"variables": "",
"insights_credential": null
}

EXPECTED RESULTS

GUI can use the same filters as the API.

ACTUAL RESULTS

The GUI failed to use the filter.

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

[kladiv]

+1
the same for:
/api/v2/hosts/?order_by=name&page_size=5&inventory__organization=2&host_filter=(search=HOSTNAME1%20or%20search=HOSTNAME2)

[edperry]

Really annoying I had this problem too and stuck with running curl requests to build my smart filters.
also this stupid syntax of __ is not very well explained
equivalent GUI examples are not provided.
We should not have to search though bug reports to find good examples of the syntax.

curl -sXPOST http://admin:blahblah@server/api/v2/inventories/ -d @smartfilter -H "Content-Type: application/json"

Smartfilter file

{
"name": "DEV Website Inventory",
"description": "All development servers ",
"organization": 1,
"kind": "smart",
"host_filter": "name__icontains=sd1d or name__icontains=sd2d or name__contains=hd1d",
"variables": "",
"insights_credential": null
}

Trying to do the same thing in the gui (its like it is splinting the search on a space token) but I

[ryanpetrello]

Resolved via https://github.com/ansible/awx/pull/2847