Hello,
In 1.8, the ability to reference a fact indirectly (as opposed to having to
statically type it out) was broken. This used to give you the fact myFact:
{{ vars['myFact'] }}
This capability is very important to me, and I will not be able to continue
to progress with Ansible unless this issue is resolved: it's a very common
pattern we see in microservices world to have things like
OUR_SQL_SERVER_HOST, OUR_SQL_SERVER_PORT, and my scripts make extensive use
of looking up facts with names like this via indirect references (so,
depending on my vars, I might ask for OUR_SQL_SERVER_HOST or
JANES_SQL_SERVER_HOST). I'm not seeing any traction or sympathy in getting
this capability back based on the issue that was filed, #10859 [1], and the
basic debugging that I've done shows that things in this realm of the
codebase got refactored at some point to a *really weird* place.
I'd really appreciate some TLC being put in on this major regression in
functionality.
There's some argument that this was never intended to be a feature, to
which I'd ask: 1) why not, clearly they were present, and it brings parity
to what we can do with looking up vars, and 2) I'd say that mdehann should
have said it wasn't a feature when I said I was using it[2]- imo, it was an
`inject`, thus exposed, so clearly it *was* a feature. This is an important
capability, and I believe my use-case does an adequate job of stating where
I'm coming from. Please restore vars to working order, such that we can
lookup facts, giving us parity with hostvars, or at least provide a
feasible new path, such that we're not here hanging out.
Thanks kindly,
rektide
[1] https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/10859
[2] https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/5000
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