On Tuesday, 25 September 2018 17.30.53 CEST eric.b.hymowitz via Ansible Project
wrote:
> Greetings.
>
> I feel like I've done this before, but for some reason, I can't figure it
> out.
>
> I've got two hashes defined.
>
> password_change:
> cobbler: [ ebhpw ]
> cougar: [ ehymowitz ]
If you don't understand the brackets, why are you using them here?
> password_groups:
> ebhpw: ehymowitz
>
> Then I've got a play.
>
> - name: eric testing 9
> debug:
> msg: "it worked!!!! variable is {{password_change.cobbler}}"
> when:
> - password_change.cobbler is defined
>
> This works:
>
> TASK [eric testing 9]
> ok: [gs-444-e10285] => {
> "msg": "it worked!!!! variable is [u'ebhpw']"
> }
>
> I don't fully understand what the brackets and the u are for.
List(array) in Ansible can be written in two ways.
myvar: ["one","two"]
or
myvar:
- one
- two
u is Pythons way of saying that the element in the list is unicode.
> But I think
> that's getting in my way. Because now I'm trying to do this:
Then you shouldn't use them in the first place.
> - name: eric testing 9
> debug:
> msg: "it worked!!!! variable is {{password_change.cobbler}}"
> when:
> - password_change.cobbler is defined
> - password_groups[password_change.cobbler] is defined
>
> and it fails.
>
> TASK [eric testing 9]
> skipping: [gs-444-e10285]
>
> So what am I missing? It knows what password_change.cobbler is ("ebhpw") ,
> and it knows what password_groups[ebhpw] is ("ehymowitz"), so why I can't I
> properly test for the value of password_groups[password_change.cobbler] ?
password_change.cobbler is not "ebhpw" it's list since you have the values
between [], but password_change.cobbler.0 does contain "ebhpw"
--
Kai Stian Olstad
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