API filter limit on /api/v2/jobs/ not working

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Bug Summary

It is currently not possible to filter on AWX /api/v2/jobs/ using the limit field.

AWX version

24.6.0

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Installation method

kubernetes

Modifications

no

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Steps to reproduce

Precondition: Jobs have run on different host using limit during execution.

GET /api/v2/jobs/?limit=localhost

Expected results

A list of jobs limited to the ones which have localhost in the limit field.

Actual results

No filtering is done, and all jobs are returned.

Additional information

This behavior is also suggested by the documentation on filtering, limit is even mentioned in the example for exact matching.

The field is being ignored since it's listed in ANSIBLE_BASE_REST_FILTERS_RESERVED_NAMES probably since LimitPagination uses limit as query parameter to limit the output, similar to page_size.

As a workaround it's possible to filter with a lookup ?limit__exact=localhost or ?limit__contains=localhost.

Regards Julian