This seems to be a different question.

Since this is about writing modules, would you mind asking on ansible-devel?

Apologies on being the list cop but this is a very active list, and I also
want to encourage the devel list a bit.

Thanks!

On Mon, Sep 8, 2014 at 6:15 PM, Tiglath <[email protected]> wrote:

>
> I used the code of the 'user' module to try, and it works, unfortunately I
> wanted to prompt the user for the args and the custom module can't seem to
> do an interactive session.
>
> The var_prompt module is not really suitable, for what I see.  I have to
> get 4 answers and a lot of work to validate them in between, that's why I
> think it's best to do that in Python, then pass to Ansible the arguments to
> use in the deployment and fire it off.    Looks like I'll have to
> use --extra_vars to pass the args to Ansible.  Pity, a custom module
> sounded neat.
>
> Thanks
>
> On Monday, September 8, 2014 3:42:48 PM UTC-4, Michael DeHaan wrote:
>
>> Easiest would be to write a fact module, and return a JSON response that
>> contains the dictionary "ansible_facts".  Register does not need to be used
>> with these modules.
>>
>> Take a look at any module in the tree ending in "_facts" for an example,
>> the setup module is a special case of those, that is called automatically.
>>
>> --Michael
>>
>> On Mon, Sep 8, 2014 at 2:37 PM, Tiglath <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> I know that
>>>
>>>      register: var
>>>
>>> Allows to reference  var.stdout, but...
>>>
>>> Say I call a python script that prints to stdout more than one argument
>>> as in a tuple : (arg1, arg2, arg3)
>>>
>>> How can I get that into individual variables in Ansible?
>>>
>>> Thanks
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
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