Hi,
First of all, a very happy new year to all of you.
I am trying to find a way to make it possible to add "-e force=yes" to an
ansible-playbook command line to force certain things, like unpacking an
archive, even if it has not changed. I want to add "when: force" to such
tasks.
My set-up is role-based, so the first thing a tried is adding force: false
in defaults/main.yml for every role that uses the variable. Unfortunately,
if I use "-e force=yes" the variable is not magically interpreted as a
boolean. So I could use "when: force|bool", but I tried to avoid that by
setting "forced: "{{ force | default(False) | bool }}" and using the
"forced" variable instead of "force". But it seems that variables set in
vars/main.yml are always converted to strings. See the files
at https://gist.github.com/jcassee/8217906 and a full Ansible environment
at https://letscrate.com/f/jcassee/github/ansible-issue.tar.gz
Two question:
1) Is the conversion to strings a bug or expected behaviour?
2) What is the simplest way to tie "-e force=yes" to "when: force"?
Regards,
Joost
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