mitigates issue of pruning newly used tags #401

Author: bb-Ricardo

module/netbox/connection.py

@@ -928,7 +928,7 @@ def delete_unused_tags(self):
             if tag_description is None or not tag_description.startswith(self.primary_tag):
                 continue
 
-            if tag_tagged_items is None or tag_tagged_items != 0:
+            if tag_tagged_items is None or tag_tagged_items != 0 or this_tag.used is True:
                 continue
 
             log.info(f"Deleting unused tag '{this_tag.get_display_name()}'")

module/netbox/object_classes.py

@@ -909,6 +909,10 @@ def compile_tags(self, tags, remove=False):
 
                 tag = self.inventory.add_update_object(NBTag, data={"name": tag_name})
 
+                # mark tag as used in order to not delete newly used tags
+                if isinstance(tag, NBTag):
+                    tag.used = True
+
                 new_tags.append(tag)
 
             if tag_name in current_tag_strings and remove is True:
@@ -940,7 +944,7 @@ def update_tags(self, tags, remove=False):
 
         Parameters
         ----------
-        tags: (str, list, dict, NBTag)
+        tags: str, list, dict, NBTag
             tags to parse and add/remove to/from current list of object tags
         remove: bool
             True if tags shall be removed, otherwise they will be added
@@ -1269,6 +1273,7 @@ def __init__(self, *args, **kwargs):
             "description": 200,
             "tagged_items": int
         }
+        self.used = False
         super().__init__(*args, **kwargs)