[salt-users] Problem calling jobs.list_jobs via python

Calling that function should both return a value as well as print to
stdout. Try assigning the result to a variable:
The reason for this is historical. Runners were one of the earliest
module types and could use a bit of an update. This is issue #9444.
You can track progress there; a workaround is also in a comment on
that issue.

https://github.com/saltstack/salt/issues/9444

In the next feature release of Salt that function also gained an
``outputter`` argument which can be set to ``quiet``:

http://docs.saltstack.com/en/latest/ref/runners/all/salt.runners.jobs.html#salt.runners.jobs.lookup_jid

The good news is work on modernizing runners has already begun. Keep
on eye on that issue to watch the progress.

On Thu, Feb 12, 2015 at 5:47 PM, Dennis Jacobfeuerborn
wrote:

Thanks for the pointers. That gives me an idea on how to get this working.
However:

1. "outputters" seems to be broken. I reported this a few days ago:
https://github.com/saltstack/salt/issues/20634

2. The jobs.print_job function does seem to be broken as well in
2015.2.0rc1:

A state.highstate call does a lot of work and finishes with this:

Summary
-------------
Succeeded: 51
Failed: 0
-------------
Total states run: 51

Howver when I do a jobs.print_job for that job I get this:

20150214205831478470:
     ----------
     Arguments:
         - 20150214205826284393
     Function:
         saltutil.find_job
     Minions:
         - ldap2-auth1.service.test
     Result:
         ----------
         ldap2-auth1.service.test:
             ----------
             return:
                 ----------
     StartTime:
         2015, Feb 14 20:58:31.478470
     Target:
         ldap2-auth1.service.test
     Target-type:
         glob
     User:
         root

Notice the missing return data.

Regards,
   Dennis