Ansible playbook file selection task - ansible

Question

It's probably against best practice but using an Ansible playbook, is it possible to get a list of files from one task and then offer a user prompt to select one of the files to pass into a variable?
For example:
Choose file to select:
1. file1.txt
2. file2.txt
3. file3.txt
> 1
The playbook would theoretically pause for the user input and then pass the resulting file selection into a variable to use in a future task.
Many thanks in advance.

Answer 1

Use pause. For example, given the files
shell> tree files
files
├── file1.txt
├── file2.txt
└── file3.txt
0 directories, 3 files
the playbook below
shell> cat playbook.yml
- hosts: localhost
tasks:
- find:
path: files
register: result
- set_fact:
my_files: "{{ result.files|map(attribute='path')|list|sort }}"
- pause:
prompt: |
Choose file to select:
{% for file in my_files %}
{{ loop.index }} {{ file }}
{% endfor %}
register: result
- debug:
msg: "selected file: {{ my_files[result.user_input|int - 1] }}"
gives (when selected 2nd file and typed '2<ENTER')
shell> ansible-playbook playbook.yml
PLAY [localhost] ****
TASK [find] ****
ok: [localhost]
TASK [set_fact] ****
ok: [localhost]
TASK [pause] ****
[pause]
Choose file to select:
1 files/file1.txt
2 files/file2.txt
3 files/file3.txt
:
ok: [localhost]
TASK [debug] ****
ok: [localhost] => {
"msg": "selected file: files/file2.txt"
}
PLAY RECAP ****
localhost: ok=4 changed=0 unreachable=0 failed=0 skipped=0 rescued=0 ignored=0