On Monday, 26 February 2018 15.39.09 CET Nico Sabbi wrote:
> HI,
> can I combine when: and with_items clauses as in this example?
>
> become: true
> become_user: root
> tasks:
> - block:
> - debug:
> msg: "riga {{item}}"
> - user:
> name: "{{ item.split(':')[0] }}"
> home: "{{ item.split(':')[1] }}"
> when: item search(":")
> with_items: [ "abc:def", "yyy.zzz"]
>
> The sad output is the following, indicating that "item" is undefined in
> the loop.
when is executing before the loop so that's the reason this will not work.
> TASK [debug]
> ***********************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************
> fatal: [localhost]: FAILED! => {"msg": "The task includes an option with an
> undefined variable. The error was: 'item' is undefined\n\nThe error appears
> to have been in '/home/nico2601/block.yml': line 25, column 9, but may\nbe
> elsewhere in the file depending on the exact syntax problem.\n\nThe
> offending line appears to be:\n\n - block:\n - debug:\n ^
> here\n\nexception type: <class
> 'ansible.errors.AnsibleUndefinedVariable'>\nexception: 'item' is undefined"}
> to retry, use: --limit @/home/nico2601/block.retry
>
>
> What I want to do is ensuring that the user before the : is set only when
> the string that I'm looping over does contain :
> What's the right way to do it?
If you but the user code in a file and use include_tasks it will work.
user.yml
---
- user:
name: "{{ item.split(':')[0] }}"
home: "{{ item.split(':')[1] }}"
Then replace the user in block with include_tasks
- include_tasks: user.yml
with_items: [ "abc:def", "yyy.zzz"]
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Kai Stian Olstad
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