"I'm struggling to find the best way to define a dictionary variable
dynamically. "

Sounds like you should just have a dictionary of values and use a variable
to select an index into it, you don't really want to define the dictionary
dynamically but pick an element.



On Thu, May 29, 2014 at 2:59 PM, Steve Fox <[email protected]> wrote:

> I'm struggling to find the best way to define a dictionary variable
> dynamically. My goal is to define a dictionary with product versions as
> keys and the latest revisions as values. That way I can define the path to
> the latest build for each product version.
>
> It seems like a lookup plugin should be perfect, even though they're
> required to return a list. I tried sending back the dictionary inside a
> list, but that fails with
>
>     "an unexpected type error occured. Error was sequence item 0: expected
> string, dict found"
>
> I get this same error whether I use vars: or set_fact with complex
> arguments.
>
> I then took a different approach and converted my lookup plugin to a
> module which defines a specific fact. This worked, but unfortunately the
> fact is scoped to each host, so the module has to run repeatedly. Is there
> a better way?
>
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