Hi Jack! No real reason, the older single-line forms came first and I think some of us like more compact playbooks.
It's something of a stylistic choice. --Michael On Fri, Mar 14, 2014 at 11:11 AM, Jack Neely <[email protected]> wrote: > Greetings, > > The documentation always uses the following syntax style when talking > about or giving examples of module usage: > > - name: Set up /tmp/timings file > lineinfile: > > dest=/tmp/timings line="{{ ansible_local.preferences.launch_msg }}" > create=yes > > I've had issues in the past when I had a long list of arguments, a > loop/templating, and the need to YAML escape a character or two. I ended > up with quotes around the entire argument block and had difficulty getting > the escape to work, the templating to work, and have the whole scalar > parsable by Ansible. Then I found that the following syntax works: > > - name: Set up /tmp/timings file > lineinfile: > dest: /tmp/timings > line: "{{ ansible_local.preferences.launch_msg }}" > create: yes > > Which just makes a ton more sense. Easier to write and read. Got to be > easier to parse. > > Is there a reason the latter isn't the suggested/recommended syntax? > > Jack Neely > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Ansible Project" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/ansible-project/0d737fbc-50b5-45a1-b6d8-d6ffc3c21a43%40googlegroups.com<https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/ansible-project/0d737fbc-50b5-45a1-b6d8-d6ffc3c21a43%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ansible Project" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/ansible-project/CAEVJ8QMZO%3D%2BGZ6U2f7V3NAcA7tVDA%2BtWxstZGmgXy6DFX4oGKg%40mail.gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
