You were being clear.

Hashes can't self reference their own values.

That's the only limitation now.




On Tue, Dec 17, 2013 at 9:48 PM, <[email protected]> wrote:

> Maybe I wasn't clear so let me start over. Below is a quote from Nick in
> another post (
> https://groups.google.com/forum/#!msg/ansible-project/EAerV9UZ0KI/gVIP6WUK5UQJ)
> where he is having the exact same problem I am having. I think he does a
> good job describing the problem. Unfortunately, it doesn't seem to get
> answered in that post either. It also seems like the exact same problem
> that this github issue (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/4450) is
> describing which was apparently fixed. However, I'm still having this same
> issue in the 1.4.1 version of Ansible from EPEL. So my questions are this:
>
>
>    - Was this fixed?
>    - If not is going to get fixed?
>    - If so when can we expect the fix?
>    - If not what should the work around look like when converting from
>    ${foo} to {{foo}}?
>
> Here is the example from Nick I spoke of earlier. Surely this is a valid
> thing for someone to want to do and I'm not seeing a better way to do it.
>
> For example, assuming a simple role with a tasks/main.yml like this:
>
> ---
> - name: test
>   action: debug msg="got {{foo.path}}"
>
> And a vars/main.yml defining a var referencing another var like this:
>
> ---
> foo:
>   base: /some/path
>   path: '{{ foo.base }}/filename'
>
>
> This fails with the error "recursive loop detected in template string:
> {{foo.base}}/filename".
>
> However if I use a dollar variable it succeeds:
>
> ---
> foo:
>   base: /some/path
>   path: '${foo.base}/filename'
>
> Which outputs "got /some/path/filename" as expected.  It does not seem to
> matter
> if fail_on_undefined is set in ansible.cfg or not.
>
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