Hello all,
I am trying to build a play that allows for variable subelement selection,
and subsequent iteration over array contained therein. The following test
playbook hopefully illustrates the situation:
---
- hosts: localhost
connection: local
gather_facts: false
vars:
foo:
bar:
- name: somebar1
desc: somebar1text
- name: somebar2
desc: somebar2text
baz:
- name: somebaz1
desc: somebaz1test
tasks:
- debug: var=foo.bar
- debug: var=foo.{{select}}
#- debug: var={{item}}
# with_items: "foo.{{select}}"
- command: echo "{{item.name}}"
with_items: "foo.{{select}}"
When select is passed in with -e "select=bar" or baz, the debug statements
look fine, but the final with_items results in:
fatal: [localhost]: FAILED! => {"failed": true, "msg": "'unicode object'
has no attribute 'name'"}
When I uncomment the third debug statement, output seems to indicate that
with_items is not returning the elements of the array, but the entire array:
ok: [localhost] => (item=foo.bar) => {
"foo.bar": [
{
"desc": "somebar1text",
"name": "somebar1"
},
{
"desc": "somebar2text",
"name": "somebar2"
}
],
"item": "foo.bar"
}
I have looked at with_dict and with_subelements and a few others, but they
do not seem to fit the situation. I have some workarounds in mind that are
less than pretty. Can someone point me in the right direction? Thank you.
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