Object diff should support more objects (at least notifications and roles)

[fernandorocagonzalez]

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.
The object diff does not support some essential objects of the awx/controller like roles or notifications

Describe the solution you'd like
The object diff should support all objects, or at least roles and notifications

Describe alternatives you've considered
So far the only alternative is to deploy custom scripts in order to purge unwanted objects inside the controller

Additional context
No aditional context required, everything is clearly stated at the documentation (which is great btw) . Ref: https://galaxy.ansible.com/ui/repo/published/infra/controller_configuration/content/role/object_diff/

[djdanielsson]

object diff no longer is in this repo, I will move this issue/request to the correct repo.

[ivarmu]

Notification templates are already supported: https://github.com/redhat-cop/aap_configuration_extended/blob/devel/roles/object_diff/tasks/notification_templates.yml
Roles are already supported: https://github.com/redhat-cop/aap_configuration_extended/blob/devel/roles/object_diff/tasks/roles.yml

[kakashiiMF]

Is it possible to add the right documentation about the object diff role then?

It only states:

$ ansible-playbook object_diff.yml --list-tags
TASK TAGS: [credentials, credential_types, groups, hosts, inventories, inventory_sources, job_templates, organizations, projects, teams, users, workflow_job_templates]

But in reality, it is missing: schedules, instance_groups, applications, execution_environments and notification_templates.

[ivarmu]

Hi @kakashiiMF , I'm sorry, but I believe that you are not using the latest devel version, as these tags are already defined:

aap_configuration_extended/roles/object_diff/defaults/main.yml

Lines 32 to 50 in f6fc577

	controller_configuration_object_diff_tasks:
	- {name: schedules, var: controller_schedules, tags: schedules}
	- {name: workflow_job_templates, var: controller_workflows, tags: workflow_job_templates}
	- {name: job_templates, var: controller_templates, tags: job_templates}
	- {name: roles, var: controller_roles, tags: roles}
	- {name: teams, var: aap_teams, tags: teams}
	- {name: user_accounts, var: aap_user_accounts, tags: users}
	- {name: groups, var: controller_groups, tags: groups}
	- {name: hosts, var: controller_hosts, tags: hosts}
	- {name: applications, var: aap_applications, tags: applications}
	- {name: execution_environments, var: controller_execution_environments, tags: execution_environments}
	- {name: inventory_sources, var: controller_inventory_sources, tags: inventory_sources}
	- {name: inventories, var: controller_inventories, tags: inventories}
	- {name: projects, var: controller_projects, tags: projects}
	- {name: notification_templates, var: controller_notification_templates, tags: notification_templates}
	- {name: credentials, var: controller_credentials, tags: credentials}
	- {name: credential_types, var: controller_credential_types, tags: credential_types}
	- {name: organizations, var: aap_organizations, tags: organizations}
	- {name: instance_groups, var: controller_instance_groups, tags: instance_groups}

You can check what version you have installed with the command:

$ ansible-galaxy collection list
# /home/user/.ansible/collections/ansible_collections
Collection                               Version     
---------------------------------------- ------------
ansible.controller                       4.6.18      
ansible.eda                              2.8.2       
ansible.hub                              1.0.1       
ansible.platform                         2.5.20250326
infra.aap_configuration                  3.4.1       
infra.aap_configuration_extended         1.1.1-devel 
# /usr/lib/python3.13/site-packages/ansible_collections
Collection                               Version     
---------------------------------------- ------------
<output ommited>

You can use the devel version of the current collection by any of the following two methods:

1. Running the following command to install (or force the update) the collection directly from GitHub:
   ansible-galaxy collection install https://github.com/redhat-cop/aap_configuration_extended.git --force
2. Cloning the current repository at the correct place:

   # Look at the folders configured for collections (ansible collection location)
   $ ansible --version
   ansible [core 2.18.6]
     config file = /etc/ansible/ansible.cfg
     configured module search path = ['/home/user/.ansible/plugins/modules', '/usr/share/ansible/plugins/modules']
     ansible python module location = /usr/lib/python3.13/site-packages/ansible
     ansible collection location = /home/user/.ansible/collections:/usr/share/ansible/collections
     executable location = /usr/bin/ansible
     python version = 3.13.7 (main, Aug 14 2025, 00:00:00) [GCC 15.2.1 20250808 (Red Hat 15.2.1-1)] (/usr/bin/python3)
     jinja version = 3.1.6
     libyaml = True
   $ cd /home/user/.ansible/collections
   $ mkdir -p ansible_collections/infra
   $ git clone https://github.com/redhat-cop/aap_configuration_extended.git

[kakashiiMF]

Im talking about the documentation of the role here:
https://github.com/redhat-cop/aap_configuration_extended/blob/2.0.0/roles/object_diff/README.md

You can see that some tags are missing:

Btw, this seems to be the same "problem" of missing documentation in this repo here:
https://github.com/redhat-cop/infra.controller_configuration/blob/3.1.3/roles/object_diff/README.md

You can see that some tags are missing in this version of object_diff role in this collection too.

Can someone update this please ? :)