Running ansible 1.9.1.  Maybe the booloean section in 
https://docs.ansible.com/playbooks_conditionals.html#the-when-statement 
nees to reflect this and spent some time to figure this out?

Cheers,
Si.


On Tuesday, June 23, 2015 at 6:56:16 PM UTC+1, Michael Peters wrote:
>
> This bug should be fixed. Which version are you using? But even when 
> it's fixed, the string "false" is a true value. 
>
> I do admit that "|bool" everywhere is kind of annoying, but it's the 
> safest way to always make sure your context is correct. 
>
> On Tue, Jun 23, 2015 at 12:31 PM, Si W <[email protected] <javascript:>> 
> wrote: 
> > 
> > 
> > I have been struggling with booloean handling and read through 
> > https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/8629 not sure if its fixed or 
> I am 
> > just not getting the jist.  If I run something like .. 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> >   vars: 
> >     foo: True 
> >     bar: False 
> >     foobar: '{{ foo and bar }}' 
> > 
> >   tasks: 
> > 
> >     - debug: msg="If foo is True" 
> >       when: foo 
> > 
> >     - debug: msg="If bar is False" 
> >       when: not bar 
> > 
> >     - debug: msg="foobar is True" 
> >       when: foobar 
> > 
> >     - debug: msg="foobar is false" 
> >       when: not foobar 
> > 
> >     - debug: msg="foobar|bool is false" 
> >       when: not foobar|bool 
> > 
> >     - debug: 
> >         var=foobar 
> > 
> > If I run the above I get 
> > 
> > PLAY [localhost] 
> > ************************************************************** 
> > 
> > 
> > TASK: [debug msg="If foo is True"] 
> > ******************************************** 
> > ok: [localhost] => { 
> >     "msg": "If foo is True" 
> > } 
> > 
> > TASK: [debug msg="If bar is False"] 
> > ******************************************* 
> > ok: [localhost] => { 
> >     "msg": "If bar is False" 
> > } 
> > 
> > TASK: [debug msg="foobar is True"] 
> > ******************************************** 
> > skipping: [localhost] 
> > 
> > TASK: [debug msg="foobar is false"] 
> > ******************************************* 
> > skipping: [localhost] 
> > 
> > TASK: [debug msg="foobar|bool is false"] 
> > ************************************** 
> > ok: [localhost] => { 
> >     "msg": "foobar|bool is false" 
> > } 
> > 
> > TASK: [debug var=foobar] 
> > ****************************************************** 
> > ok: [localhost] => { 
> >     "var": { 
> >         "foobar": "False" 
> >     } 
> > } 
> > 
> > PLAY RECAP 
> > ******************************************************************** 
> > localhost                  : ok=5    changed=0    unreachable=0   
>  failed=0 
> > 
> > 
> > Is this just expected behaviour due to mix of yaml and jinja2 it just 
> seems 
> > messy having to work out when to use |bool ? 
> > 
> > Cheers 
> > Si 
> > 
> > 
> > 
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