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# Inventory Refresh Overview
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Tower should have an inventory view that is more aligned towards systems management
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rather than merely maintaining inventory for automation.
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## Inventory Source Promotion
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## Fact Searching and Caching
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## Smart Inventory
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Starting in Tower 3.2, Tower will support the ability to define a _Smart Inventory_.
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You will define the inventories using the same language we currently support
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in our _Smart Search_.
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### Inventory Changes
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* The `Inventory` model has a new field called `kind`. The default of this field will be blank
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for normal inventories and set to `smart` for smart inventories.
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* `Inventory` model as a new field called `host_filter`. The default of this field will be blank
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for normal inventories. When `host_filter` is set AND the inventory `kind` is set to `smart`
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is the combination that makes a _Smart Inventory_.
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### Smart Filter (host_filter)
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The `SmartFilter` class handles our translation of the smart search string. We store the
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filter value in the `host_filter` field for an inventory. This value should be expressed
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the same way we express our existing smart searches.
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host_filter="search=foo"
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host_filter="groups__search=bar"
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host_filter="search=baz and groups_search=bang"
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host_filter="name=localhost or group__name=local"
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### Acceptance Critera
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When verifying acceptance we should ensure the following statements are true:
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* `Inventory` has a new field named `kind` that defaults to empty and
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can only be set to `smart`.
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* `Inventory` has a new field named `host_filter` to empty and can only be
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set to a valid _SmartFilter_ string.
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* `Inventory` with a `host_filter` set and a `kind` of `smart` will have
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a `hosts` list reflecting the results of searching `/hosts` with the same
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smart search that is set in the `host_filter`.
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### API Concerns
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There are no breaking or backwards incompatible changes for this feature.
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## Other Changes
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### Background Deleition of Inventory
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### InventorySource Hosts and Groups read-only
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