Implement an option to choose a job type on relaunch (issue #14177) (#15249)

Allows changing the job type (run, check) when relaunching
a job by adding a "job_type" to the relaunch POST payload

awx/api/serializers.py

@@ -3352,11 +3352,17 @@ class JobRelaunchSerializer(BaseSerializer):
         choices=[('all', _('No change to job limit')), ('failed', _('All failed and unreachable hosts'))],
         write_only=True,
     )
+    job_type = serializers.ChoiceField(
+        required=False,
+        allow_null=True,
+        choices=NEW_JOB_TYPE_CHOICES,
+        write_only=True,
+    )
     credential_passwords = VerbatimField(required=True, write_only=True)
 
     class Meta:
         model = Job
-        fields = ('passwords_needed_to_start', 'retry_counts', 'hosts', 'credential_passwords')
+        fields = ('passwords_needed_to_start', 'retry_counts', 'hosts', 'job_type', 'credential_passwords')
 
     def validate_credential_passwords(self, value):
         pnts = self.instance.passwords_needed_to_start

awx/api/views/__init__.py

@@ -3435,6 +3435,7 @@ class JobRelaunch(RetrieveAPIView):
 
         copy_kwargs = {}
         retry_hosts = serializer.validated_data.get('hosts', None)
+        job_type = serializer.validated_data.get('job_type', None)
         if retry_hosts and retry_hosts != 'all':
             if obj.status in ACTIVE_STATES:
                 return Response(
@@ -3455,6 +3456,8 @@ class JobRelaunch(RetrieveAPIView):
                 )
             copy_kwargs['limit'] = ','.join(retry_host_list)
 
+        if job_type:
+            copy_kwargs['job_type'] = job_type
         new_job = obj.copy_unified_job(**copy_kwargs)
         result = new_job.signal_start(**serializer.validated_data['credential_passwords'])
         if not result: