[ansible-project] ansible and yaml syntax - There appears to be both 'k=v' shorthand syntax and YAML in this task. Only one syntax may be used.

[Nicolas Wright]

Hello,

any clues what is a workaround for the syntax issue below? This variable is 
defined in a group among other variables. My playbook won't run because of 
this error. I may have to escape the =.. I m hoping to keep the string as 
human friendly as possible though. I am using quote so I can replace the 
password with a shared password variable.


here is the variable definition:

db_connectionstring: "User ID=myuser;Initial Catalog=mycatalog;Data 
Source=db\\instance;persist security info=True;password=mypass;Pooling=True"

The error

2020-02-25T14:01:13.6121920Z ##[error]ERROR! Syntax Error while loading 
YAML.
2020-02-25T14:01:13.6122859Z did not find expected key
2020-02-25T14:01:13.6123034Z 
2020-02-25T14:01:13.6123401Z The error appears to be in 
'/var/lib/rundeck/ansible/inventories/vin_qa01/group_vars/all/vars.yml': 
line 66, column 42, but may
2020-02-25T14:01:13.6123829Z be elsewhere in the file depending on the 
exact syntax problem.
2020-02-25T14:01:13.6124028Z 
2020-02-25T14:01:13.6124275Z The offending line appears to be:
2020-02-25T14:01:13.6124480Z 
2020-02-25T14:01:13.6124871Z db_connectionstring_contentuser: "User ID=
myuser;Initial Catalog=mycatalog;Data Source=db\\instance;persist security 
info=True;password=mypass;Pooling=True"
2020-02-25T14:01:13.6125323Z ^ here
2020-02-25T14:01:13.6125516Z 
2020-02-25T14:01:13.6125847Z There appears to be both 'k=v' shorthand 
syntax and YAML in this task. Only one syntax may be used.
2020-02-25T14:01:13.6126232Z This one looks easy to fix. It seems that 
there is a value started
2020-02-25T14:01:13.6126600Z with a quote, and the YAML parser is expecting 
to see the line ended
2020-02-25T14:01:13.6126925Z with the same kind of quote. For instance:
2020-02-25T14:01:13.6127100Z 
2020-02-25T14:01:13.6127359Z when: "ok" in result.stdout

any guidance vm appreciated! 
-nic

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