Consider generation using ansible.content_builder

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SUMMARY

Content Builder could potentially be used to generate resource modules for this collection from the OpenAPI spec.

• https://www.ansible.com/blog/streamline-your-ansible-module-development-with-content-builder
• https://github.com/ansible-community/ansible.content_builder

Investigate this project. Is it possible to use it here? What works and doesn't? Pros/Cons?

ISSUE TYPE

• Feature Idea

COMPONENT NAME

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

I started a PoC here: https://github.com/displague/content-builder-example. This is currently non-functional, blocked by https://github.com/displague/content-builder-example/issues/1.

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Potential cons (could be solutioned around):

• inventory would not know how to automatically paginate results
• API spec changes (endpoint and modules renames) would disrupt the Ansible interface at a faster pace than may be acceptable based on the current delta in Metal OAS3 specs