"false" != false. You have a string/boolean issue. Aka, the var1 is
not the boolean value false, but the string value "false".
On 02/03/2014 06:32 PM, Roman Revyakin wrote:
Hi,
I am not sure whether someone has come across this issue previously -
trying to search the group for 'when' and 'is defined' did not yield me
anything useful. So I am posting it as a new topic here.
I have encountered that in case I use 'when:' clause where I need to
test whether one variable is set to 'true' and another one is defined,
the following playbook triggers action even if the first variable is
'false':
cat > test_playbook.yaml <<EOF
---
- hosts: all
gather_facts: false
tasks:
- name: Play only if var1 is true and var2 is defined
local_action: command echo "Yes {{ var1 }} is true and {{ var2 }}
is defined"
when: var1 and var2 is defined
EOF
$ ansible-playbook -i host -v test_playbook.yaml --extra-vars
"var1=false var2='something'"
PLAY [all]
********************************************************************
TASK: [Play only if var1 is true and var2 is defined]
*************************
changed: [localhost] => {"changed": true, "cmd": ["echo", "Yes false is
true and something is defined"], "delta": "0:00:00.003256", "end":
"2014-02-04 11:19:56.720699", "rc": 0, "start": "2014-02-04
11:19:56.717443", "stderr": "", "stdout": "Yes false is true and
something is defined"}
PLAY RECAP
********************************************************************
localhost : ok=1 changed=1 unreachable=0 failed=0
Only if I change the conditions to be supplied on separate 'when:'
lines, it works as expected:
cat > test1_playbook.yaml <<EOF
---
- hosts: all
gather_facts: false
tasks:
- name: Play only if var1 is true and var2 is defined
local_action: command echo "Yes {{ var1 }} is true and {{ var2 }}
is defined"
when: var2 is defined
when: var1
EOF
$ ansible-playbook -i host -v test_playbook.yaml --extra-vars
"var1=false var2='something'"
PLAY [all]
********************************************************************
TASK: [Play only if var1 is true and var2 is defined]
*************************
skipping: [localhost]
PLAY RECAP
********************************************************************
localhost : ok=0 changed=0 unreachable=0 failed=0
$ ansible-playbook -i host -v test_playbook.yaml --extra-vars "var1=true
var2='something'"
PLAY [all]
********************************************************************
TASK: [Play only if var1 is true and var2 is defined]
*************************
changed: [localhost] => {"changed": true, "cmd": ["echo", "Yes true is
true and something is defined"], "delta": "0:00:00.002733", "end":
"2014-02-04 11:22:20.289360", "rc": 0, "start": "2014-02-04
11:22:20.286627", "stderr": "", "stdout": "Yes true is true and
something is defined"}
PLAY RECAP
********************************************************************
localhost : ok=1 changed=1 unreachable=0 failed=0
However in this case it fails (not skips) when the var2 is undefined and
var1 is true, which is not really a desired behaviour:
$ ansible-playbook -i host -v test_playbook.yaml --extra-vars "var1=true"
PLAY [all]
********************************************************************
TASK: [Play only if var1 is true and var2 is defined]
*************************
fatal: [localhost] => One or more undefined variables: 'var2' is undefined
FATAL: all hosts have already failed -- aborting
PLAY RECAP
********************************************************************
to retry, use: --limit @/Users/roman/test_playbook.yaml.retry
localhost : ok=0 changed=0 unreachable=1 failed=0
The order of 'when's also matters, in case their order is reverted like
follows
when: var1
when: var2 is defined
the playbook starts behaving like in the first example where 'when'
conditions were supplied on one line using the 'and' operator.
If I use
when: var1==true and var2 is defined
the playbook would skip the action even all conditions are satisfied:
$ ansible-playbook -i host -v test_playbook.yaml --extra-vars "var1=true
var2='defined'"
PLAY [all]
********************************************************************
TASK: [Play only if var1 is true and var2 is defined]
*************************
skipping: [localhost]
PLAY RECAP
********************************************************************
localhost : ok=0 changed=0 unreachable=0 failed=0
The docs
<http://docs.ansible.com/playbooks_conditionals.html#the-when-statement> do
not shed any more light on that strange behaviour.
Thanks a lot in advance,
With kind regards,
Roman
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