Hello,
Whenever a ternary is used are both conditions evaluated regardless ?
For example, I want to convert "my_other_var" to an object only if it is
passed as as string, otherwise I don't want to touch the object, and leave
it as it is.
- set_fact:
my_var: "{{ ( my_other_var | type_debug == 'str' ) | ternary
(my_other_var | from_json, my_other_var }}"
What happens right now is this:
if my_other_var is str -> It works
if my_other_var is dict -> it gives me the error saying that my_other_var
should be a string to be converted from_json. But I would expect that being
the condition on the left = False, it would ignore the left condition on
the ternary and only consider the rightmost condition.
I also tried using when:
-- name: Set fact for string object
set_fact:
my_var: "{{ my_other_var | from_json }}"
when: (my_other_var | type_debug == 'str')
- name: Set fat for dict object
set_fact:
my_var: "{{ my_other_var | from_json }}"
when: (my_other_var | type_debug == 'dict')
However, if "my_other_var" is dict, the first block (named set fact for
string object) gives me the same error as before. I was actually expecting
that being the when statement equals to false, it would simply ignore it.
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