Thanks; I think I was a little vague, sorry. I'm actually already using
them together to evaluate the return output of a script and determine what
task state to return, and I wanted to just remove the 'failed_when:' line
and let Ansible rely on the return code of the script being called instead
of looking at the text it returns. But I wanted to leave the changed_when
looking at the output.
I was initially (probably over-thinking it and) curious if there were any
corner cases where that could effect if the task still used 'changed_when:'
as I wanted it to, but having thought about it for a while I'm 99.9% sure
that the only time my 'changed_when:' will get overridden is when the task
actually fails according to the return code. And in that case I obviously
would want the failed status to supersede whether or not the changed_when
matched.
On Thursday, January 15, 2015 at 2:24:40 PM UTC-6, Peter Mooshammer wrote:
>
> Well,
>
> I just tried and tested both:
>
> - name: run python script to make ip static
> script: ../files/gce_setip.py -a {{ item.public_ip }} -n {{ ipaddrname
> }} -z {{ zone }}
> register: res
> failed_when: "res.rc == 2"
> changed_when: "res.rc == 0"
> with_items: gce.instance_data
>
> and it seems to work or at least I hope so ....
>
> On Thursday, January 15, 2015 at 11:19:05 AM UTC-8, Mark Casey wrote:
>>
>> Hello list,
>>
>> Do 'failed_when:' and 'changed_when:' effect one another?
>>
>> (i.e. a failed task returns changed instead of failed because you'd
>> specified both flags or vice versa?)
>>
>> I guess I'm assuming that in any case 'failed' supersedes 'changed', and
>> these flags just change the definition of those conditions and not their
>> precedence(?).
>>
>> Thank you,
>> Mark
>>
>
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