Thanks very much James for your advise. Was able to achieve what was
intended, but there seems to be another problem.
Updated the code as below, and, Ansible is passing the list of items to the
get_url.
---
- name: Download Properties Files!
get_url:
url: "{{ url }}/{{ dir }}/{{ item }}"
dest: "{{ dest_dir }}/"
with_items:
- files: "{{ lookup('vars', dir ~'_files') }}"
However the get_url step is failing with the below ERROR.
failed: [sometarget-machine.com] (item={u'files': [u'abc1', u'abc2', u'abc3'
]}) => {"changed": false, "dest": "/some/path/onedir", "gid": 0, "group":
"root", "item": {"files": ["abc1", "abc2", "abc3"]}, "mode": "0755", "msg":
"Request
failed", "owner": "root", "response": "HTTP Error 400: Bad request",
"secontext": "unconfined_u:object_r:default_t:s0", "size": 4096, "state":
"directory", "status_code": 400, "uid": 0, "url": "https://targetURL/{u'files':
[u'abc1', u'abc2', u'abc3']}"}
Also, the same get_url on the same target machine works fine with specified
with_items with a list (as below)
---
- hosts: sametarget
gather_facts: no
become: yes
tasks:
- name: Download Files
get_url:
url: https://targetURL{{ item }}
dest: some/target/path
with_items:
- abc1
- abc2
- abc3
On Friday, December 28, 2018 at 3:47:53 PM UTC-5, James Cassell wrote:
>
> Try
>
> files: "{{ lookup('vars', dir ~ '_files' }}"
>
> V/r,
> James Cassell
>
> On Fri, Dec 28, 2018, at 3:03 PM, Bharath Kumar wrote:
> > Hello Ansible Experts,
> >
> > I am creating a Role, which has a task to download multiple files from
> an
> > URL, and, for that, I am using get_url module. Since, get_url cant
> download
> > files recursively, I have been trying to use 'with_items'.
> >
> > Role Snippets Below.
> >
> > /defaults/main.yml
> > ---
> >
> > files: "{{ dir }}_files"
> >
> >
> > /vars/main.yml
> > ---
> > onedir_files:
> > - abc1
> > - abc2
> > - abc3
> >
> >
> > twodir_files:
> > - xyz1
> > - xyz2
> >
> >
> > threedir_files:
> > - one
> > - two
> > - three
> >
> > /tasks/main.yml
> > ---
> > - name: Download Properties Files!
> > get_url:
> > url: "{{ url }}/{{ dir }}/{{ item }}"
> > dest: "{{ dest_dir }}/"
> > with_items: "{{ files }}"
> >
> > *ansible-playbook test.yml --extra-vars "dir=one"*
> >
> > Running all tasks fine until the get_url, and, failing with below.
> >
> > failed: [target_host] (item=onedir_files) => {"changed": false, "dest":
> > "/some/target/path", "gid": 0, "group": "root", "item": "onedir_files",
> > "mode": "0755", "msg": "Request failed", "owner": "root", "response":
> "HTTP
> > Error 404: org.tmatesoft.svn.core.SVNException: svn: E175007: Path
> > '/some/path/", "secontext": "unconfined_u:object_r:default_t:s0",
> "size":
> > 4096, "state": "directory", "status_code": 404, "uid": 0, "url":
> > "https://someurl/one/onedir_files"}
> >
> > Please let me know where I have gone wrong? or, a best practice or a
> good
> > approach for the above problem/requirement.
> >
> > Thanks in Advance.
> >
> >
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