##### SUMMARY
When dynamically creating a dict var with a list as its value, it's working
when the list elements are int but will fallback to a string when the list
elements are strings.
##### ISSUE TYPE
- Not sure if this is a bug in Ansible, YAML or Jinja2, or is a feature by
design
##### COMPONENT NAME
n/a
##### ANSIBLE VERSION
```paste below
2.7.0
```
##### OS / ENVIRONMENT
```
Linux awx 3.10.0-862.14.4.el7.x86_64 #1 SMP Wed Sep 26 15:12:11 UTC 2018
x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
```
(Ansible AWX 2.0.1 official docker image)
##### STEPS TO REPRODUCE
The points are:
1. the dict's key has to be dynamic with vars passed at runtime
2. the dict's value has to be a string list
A sample play:
```yaml
- name: Dynamically construct dict with string list and pass to some role
hosts: test
remote_user: tester
become: no
roles:
- role: some_role
variables: "{
'{{ dynamic_key }}_KEY': '{{ [\"value1\"] + [\"value2\"] }}'
}"
```
With the above play, `variables` we got in `some_role` is as follows when
give it `var1` for `dynamic_key`:
```
ok: [test] => {
"variables": "{ 'var1_KEY': '['value1', 'value2']' }"
}
```
where both the templating of `dynamic_key` and list concatenating worked as
expected, but the dict became a string as a whole. However, if we change
the two lists into integer lists, it will work fine:
input:
```yaml
- name: Dynamically construct dict with int list and pass to some role
hosts: test
remote_user: tester
become: no
roles:
- role: some_role
variables: "{
'{{ dynamic_key }}_KEY': '{{ [1,2,3] + [4,5,6] }}'
}"
```
output:
```
ok: [test] => {
"variables": {
"var1_KEY": "[1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6]"
}
}
```
in this case, the whole dict are constructed correctly. I would like to
know if this is a feature by design or a bug.
Maybe some of you may ask why I don't construct and pass the `variables`
like this:
```yaml
- name: Dynamically construct dict with int list and pass to some role
hosts: test
remote_user: tester
become: no
roles:
- role: some_role
variables:
"{{ dynamic_key }}_KEY": "{{ [1,2,3] + [4,5,6] }}"
```
The reason is the "{{ dynamic_key }}_KEY" won't get templated and will be
kept as `{{ dynamic_key }}_KEY` in the result. I don't know either this is
a feature or a bug.
I hope I have described everything clearly. Thanks!
##### EXPECTED RESULTS
as above mentioned
##### ACTUAL RESULTS
as above mentionedEnter code here...
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