Easier way to get Smart Class parameter values for host group?

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Afternoon all

I'm currently scoping out options for writing a simplified 'microservices'
dashboard to sit on the front of Foreman and manage our various internal
microservices.

Currently, Foreman is our ENC, and we use host-groups with parameterised
classes.
Therefore it's quite common to over-ride a specific puppet class value per
host-group, such as the 'version' of the service required.

After some spelunking through the v2 API with apipie-bindings, I've found a
way through… However I was just wondering if there's an easier way that
I've missed.

Currently, I've got:

  1. Identify a specific host-group:
    api.resource(:hostgroups).call(:index, :search => 'jwtsvc')

  2. Get a list of Puppet classes assigned to this host-group, using :id
    from above:
    api.resource(:hostgroups).call(:show, :id => 17)

  3. Get a list of Smart-Class parameters for this host-group and
    puppet-class, using host-group ID and Puppet-class ID from 2:
    api.resource(:smart_class_parameters).call(:index, :hostgroup_id => 17, :puppetclass_id
    => 554)

  4. Identify any over-ride values for specific Smart-Class param
    identified from 3:
    api.resource(:override_values).call(:index, :smart_class_parameter_id =>

  1. To update the value, with the smart-class param ID from 3 and :id
    from 4:
    api.resource(:override_values).call(:update, :smart_class_parameter_id
    => '3460', :id => 40, :override_value => { :value => '1.1.1-1' } )

This feels quite convoluted, and will undoubtedly result in lots of API
calls, as our average Puppet class has 5-6 smart-class params that we are
over-riding per host-group…

So, is there a more efficient way that I've missed?

Thanks in advance.

Gavin