I feel like this has to be a bug of some kind. I can use the exact code for the set_fact action plugin and I get no difference in the results. It certainly looks like I am doing exactly what ansible is doing internally, but getting different results.
--John On Tuesday, November 2, 2021 at 9:59:58 AM UTC-4 [email protected] wrote: > I'm using action plugins to collect data from an internal API. We've been > setting the "ansible_facts" key of the results dictionary to return values. > Most of the time, this seems to work as if we had called set_fact. But if > we use set_fact on the same variable, ansible_facts doesn't overwrite the > value. Is this expected behavior? > > https://pastebin.com/553q7PNH -- playbook example > https://pastebin.com/aeAWyZhp -- set_contact_id.py action_plugin > https://pastebin.com/zrh2MLKZ - ansible results > > From the results, you can see that the contact_id is initially unset, so > the display is 0. > Then the action_plugin uses ansible_facts to set it to 15731, which is > displayed. > Then I call set_fact, which changes the value to 22124. > Finally, I try to update the value by calling the action_plugin again. > This time, I see ansible_facts has the contact_id value set to 11131, but > when I display it, I still see 22124. The ansible_facts from the action > plugin did not overwrite the value. Is this expected behavior, or am I > doing something wrong? > > Thanks. > > --John > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ansible Project" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/ansible-project/fd8170c9-dc56-4834-9867-d82fda8df6f2n%40googlegroups.com.
