Salt: Trigger a custom State into a Warning

[Arguros]

Question

Hi everyone,

• Is there a way to trigger a custom state as a warning instead of Succeeded/Failed ?

Setup

For example i have this custom state in a sls :

{{ state_id }}_{{ virtual_host }}_{{ loop.index }}_configr:
  test_apache.manage:
    - name: {{ apache_root }}/{{ apache_environnement.dir_confD }}/{{ virtual_host|replace("/","_") }}/{{ pathname }}/conf_header_location.conf
    - user: {{ username }}
    - group: root
    - mode: 644
    - template: jinja

And i want to trigger it as warning instead of Succeeded/Failed like :

Summary for local
--------------
Succeeded: 149 (changed=36)
Failed:      0
Warnings:   1

I tried to put some log.warning in my python code, or to use the salt deprecation code (salt.utils.warn_until) but the state still succeed, and no warnings is raised.
I've looked up in the salt documentation/code without any luck.

Versions Report

Salt Version:
           Salt: 2017.7.8

Dependency Versions:
           cffi: Not Installed
       cherrypy: Not Installed
       dateutil: Not Installed
      docker-py: Not Installed
          gitdb: Not Installed
      gitpython: Not Installed
          ioflo: Not Installed
         Jinja2: 2.7.2
        libgit2: Not Installed
        libnacl: Not Installed
       M2Crypto: 0.28.2
           Mako: Not Installed
   msgpack-pure: Not Installed
 msgpack-python: 0.5.6
   mysql-python: Not Installed
      pycparser: Not Installed
       pycrypto: 2.6.1
   pycryptodome: Not Installed
         pygit2: Not Installed
         Python: 2.7.5 (default, Oct 30 2018, 23:45:53)
   python-gnupg: Not Installed
         PyYAML: 3.11
          PyZMQ: 15.3.0
           RAET: Not Installed
          smmap: Not Installed
        timelib: Not Installed
        Tornado: 4.2.1
            ZMQ: 4.1.4

System Versions:
           dist: centos 7.6.1810 Core
         locale: UTF-8
        machine: x86_64
        release: 3.10.0-957.1.3.el7.x86_64
         system: Linux
        version: CentOS Linux 7.6.1810 Core

[DmitryKuzmenko]

@Arguros sorry, probably I'm wrong, but I see no Warnings: line at all in salt output and I see no any mention of Warnings: in salt source code. Are you talking about a new feature proposal? If so could you please follow the https://github.com/saltstack/salt-enhancement-proposals ?

[Arguros]

Hello,

Late answer but i finally found how to do it.
You can pass the warning in the return of the custom state :
ret = {'name': name, 'changes': {}, 'result': 'True', 'comment': '', 'warnings': '' }

After that you can formate and return the warning

   warning = ["this state is deprecated"]
   ret['warnings'] =  warning

And it'll look like this :

      Result: Warning
     Comment: Warning
     Started: 08:34:42.699374
    Duration: 1.767 ms
     Changes:
    Warnings: This state is deprecated

Succeeded: 138 (changed=35)
Failed:      0
Warnings:    3

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