Thanks for the help Toshio, i have verified that using the template lookup
does exactly what I want!
To help others, also note that the path to the template is relative to the
location of the task file that invoked it.
/Pär
I believe that using the template lookup instead of the file lookup is
> what you want. So something like:
>
> body: "{{ lookup('template',
> 'roles/grafana/templates/datasource.json.js') }}"
>
> -Toshio
>
> On Tue, Sep 22, 2015 at 11:38 AM, Pär Svensson <[email protected]
> <javascript:>> wrote:
> > Hello!
> >
> > I'm trying to make a task that uses a REST api to do some final
> > configuration of a previously installed component.
> > I want to make a POST request with a body that is a template that uses
> host
> > specific variables.
> >
> > The closest i've come up with is the following:
> >
> > - name: Adding datasource via http api
> > uri:
> > url: http://{{ inventory_hostname }}:3000/api/datasources
> > method: POST
> > body_format: json
> > HEADER_Content-Type: "application/json"
> > body: "{{ lookup('file' ,
> 'roles/grafana/templates/datasource.json.j2')
> > }}"
> >
> > which sends the template-file as body, but unfortunately without any
> > variables substituted...
> >
> > Any idea how i should approach the problem?
> >
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