[question] queue parameter oftakes no effect in restfull call to salt-api

[xq2248]

We want minion123 to execute two jobs job1.sls and job2.sls at the same time.

The following salt commands with queue=True parameter: salt 'minion123' state.sls job1 queue=True salt 'minion123' state.sls job2 queue=True Job1 and job2 are excuted one by one sucessfully.

But queue=True does not work in rest call. The restful call to salt-api of job1 as follows: { "tgt": "minion123", "arg": [ "job1"
], "client": "local", "fun": "state.sls", "queue": true }

The restful call to salt-api of job2 as follows: { "tgt": "minion123", "arg": [ "job2"
], "client": "local", "fun": "state.sls", "queue": true }

With rest calls , job1 success, job2 failed immediately. It seems that queue takes no effect. We tried other formats of queue parameter: "queue": True "queue": "true" "queue": "True" All of above do not work.

What is the correct json format of queue parameter? Or rest call of salt-api does not support queue as a optional parameter? Or bug?

[xq2248]

Salt Version: Salt: 2019.2.0

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[max-arnold]

Like job1, the queue is also an argument for the state.sls function:

https://docs.saltstack.com/en/latest/ref/modules/all/salt.modules.state.html#salt.modules.state.sls

salt.modules.state.sls(mods, test=None, exclude=None, queue=False, sync_mods=None, **kwargs)

Therefore, you need to pass it inside the kwarg dictionary. Here is an example:

curl -ksS http://localhost:8000/run \
  -H 'Content-type: application/json' \
  -H 'Accept: application/x-yaml' \
  -d '[{"client":"local", "eauth":"auto", "username":"username", "password":"password", "tgt":"minion123", "fun":"state.sls", "arg": ["job1"], "kwarg": {"queue": true}}]'

More examples: https://docs.saltstack.com/en/latest/ref/netapi/all/salt.netapi.rest_cherrypy.html#usage

[xq2248]

@max-arnold thanks a lot.