Yeah you are going to need to write your own iterator for a lookup plugin at that level of complexity.
Take a look at "with_subelements" for one example of one that is almost there. Or you could just restructure your info to make it easier, if it was coming from a YAML file. On Fri, Aug 8, 2014 at 2:56 PM, <[email protected]> wrote: > I have structures in group_vars files that looks roughly like the > following: > > Accounts1: > files: > - { src: 'src_path/filename1', dest: 'dest_path/filename1' } > - { src: 'src_path/filename2', dest: 'dest_path/filename2' } > app_groups: > - { name: 'group1', gid: '1234' } > - { name: 'group2', gid: '1235' } > - { name: 'group3', gid: '1236' } > app_accounts: > - { name: 'account1', uid: '1234', home: '/home/account1', > comment: 'account1' } > - { name: 'account2', uid: '1235', home: '/home/account2', > comment: 'account3' } > - { name: 'account3', uid: '1236', home: '/home/account3', > comment: 'account3' } > > Accounts2: > files: > - { src: 'src_path/filename3', dest: 'dest_path/filename3' } > - { src: 'src_path/filename4', dest: 'dest_path/filename4' } > app_groups: > - { name: 'group4', gid: '2234' } > - { name: 'group5', gid: '2235' } > - { name: 'group6', gid: '2236' } > app_accounts: > - { name: 'account4', uid: '2234', home: '/home/account1', > comment: 'account4' } > - { name: 'account5', uid: '2235', home: '/home/account2', > comment: 'account5' } > - { name: 'account6', uid: '2236', home: '/home/account3', > comment: 'account6' } > > And then I have a list that looks like this: > Accounts: [ 'Accounts1', 'Accounts2' ] > > I want to be able to iterate over the Accounts list to refer to the > members of the structures something like the following: > > group: name="{{item.app_groups.name}}" gid="{{item.app_groups.gid}}" > with_items: Accounts > > It isn't quite working. What I am finding is that 'item' in the group > task is being populated with the strings "Accounts1" and "Accounts2", but > what I really want in 'item' is the objects named Accounts1 and Accounts2. > So is there some way make 'item' be a reference to an object instead of an > object itself? I have tried 'with_item', 'with_nested', and 'with_dict', > all to no avail. > Thanks, > -Mark > > -- > 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/cc6a6c33-597a-404b-a202-7439034edd3d%40googlegroups.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/ansible-project/cc6a6c33-597a-404b-a202-7439034edd3d%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/CA%2BnsWgzVO5hN3RcYhS%2BOXD%3D%2Bj8a5-CxP-uAfFUssXFTXt43%2BBQ%40mail.gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
