How can loop items as input parameters to a ansible role - ansible

Question

I am trying to convert an existing ansible playbook (for extracting the webpage content of multiple webpage URL's in parallel fashion) to re-usable roles. I need the role to accept variables in a loop and produce the output for all the items in a single task which my current playbook is able to do. But the current role is only able to produce the output of the last item in the loop
I have tried registering the webpage content inside and outside the roles but of no use. And also looping the response results with_items same as of the role is producing results for non-200 values
FYI I got the expected output by including the loop inside the role but it's defeating the purpose of maintaining a role for GET call because I will not need a loop every time for the GET call. So I am expecting to loop the role in the testplaybook.yml.
Test-Role: main.yml
uri:
url: "{{ URL_Variable }}"
method: GET
status_code: 200
return_content: yes
register: response
ignore_errors: true
testplaybook.yml:
- hosts: localhost
gather_facts: true
tasks:
- name: Include roles
include_role:
name: Test-Role
vars:
URL_Variable: "http://{{ item }}:{{ hostvars[groups['group1'][0]]['port'] }}/{{ hostvars[groups['group1'][0]]['app'] }}/"
with_items: "{{ groups['group1'] }}"
- name: "Display content"
debug:
var: response.results
Expected Output:
response.results:
ok: [127.0.0.1] => (item=[0, 'item1']) => {
"ansible_loop_var": "item",
"item": [
0,
"item1"
],
"response": {
"accept_ranges": "bytes",
"changed": false,
"connection": "close",
"content": "content1",
"content_length": "719",
"content_type": "text/html",
"cookies": {},
"failed": false,
"msg": "OK (719 bytes)",
"redirected": false,
"server": "42",
"status": 200,
"url": "http://item1:port/app/"
}
}
ok: [127.0.0.1] => (item=[1, 'item2']) => {
"ansible_loop_var": "item",
"item": [
1,
"item2"
],
"response": {
"accept_ranges": "bytes",
"changed": false,
"connection": "close",
"content": "content2",
"content_length": "719",
"content_type": "text/html",
"cookies": {},
"failed": false,
"msg": "OK (719 bytes)",
"redirected": false,
"server": "42",
"status": 200,
"url": "http://item2:port/app/"
}
}

Answer 1

try this Test-Role: main.yml file:
- uri:
url: "{{ URL_Variable }}"
method: GET
status_code: 200
return_content: yes
register: response
ignore_errors: true
- name: Add response to responses array
set_fact:
responses_results: "{{ responses_results | default([]) + [{'URL': URL_Variable, 'response': response.content}] }}"
this works with include_tasks, i assume it would work with include_role as well, the variable responses_results should persist across roles assuming its in the same play. if not works, try to switch your code to a single role instead, with an include_tasks.
hope it helps