Hi Matt,
Thanks for your thorough and quick answer. We'll look into it and let you
know the result.
On Friday, January 26, 2018 at 12:44:02 PM UTC-3, Matt Martz wrote:
>
> the `reverse` argument for `dictsort` was not added until jinja2 v2.10
> which was released on Nov 8, 2017
>
> Ansible has a dependency on jinja2, but does not dictate which specific
> version you should have installed. To get access to that feature you will
> need to upgrade your version of jinja2
>
> You may be able to use the `reverse` filter instead, but I have not
> tested: http://jinja.pocoo.org/docs/dev/templates/#reverse
>
> On Fri, Jan 26, 2018 at 9:35 AM, Martin Cigorraga <martinc...@gmail.com
> > wrote:
>
>> Hi everyone,
>>
>> We are using a Jinja2 template to populate a configuration file, based on
>> the information Ansible feeds it on runtime:
>>
>> ### Main Processes
>>
>> {% for k, v in some_conf | dictsort() %}
>>
>> cmdline -c /etc/some_tool/some_agent-{{ k }}.conf -o /var/log/
>> some_tool/some_agent.log
>>
>> {% endfor %}
>>
>>
>> We get a predictable output thanks to using dictsort():
>>
>> % cat /etc/some_tool/some_agent.conf
>>
>> cmdline -c some_agent-AAA.conf -o /var/log/some_tool/some_agent.log
>>
>>
>> cmdline -c some_agent-BBB.conf -o /var/log/some_tool/some_agent.log
>>
>>
>>
>> Thing is we need in the above configuration file that some_agent-BBB.conf is
>> placed *before* than some_agent-AAA.conf; for that matter I introduced
>> the *reverse=True* argument to dictsort():
>>
>> ### Main Processes
>>
>> {% for k, v in some_conf | dictsort(*reverse=True*) %}
>>
>> cmdline -c /etc/some_tool/some_agent-{{ k }}.conf -o /var/log/
>> some_tool/some_agent.log
>>
>> {% endfor %}
>>
>>
>> When tested using Yasha (https://github.com/kblomqvist/yasha), the
>> output is the expected one:
>>
>> % cat /etc/some_tool/some_agent.conf
>>
>> cmdline -c some_agent-BBB.conf -o /var/log/some_tool/some_agent.log
>>
>>
>> cmdline -c some_agent-AAA.conf -o /var/log/some_tool/some_agent.log
>>
>>
>>
>> However, when running the playbook, Ansible complains and stops
>> execution, showing the error message I put on the subject of this email:
>> *do_dictsort()
>> got an unexpected keyword argument 'reverse'*
>>
>> Why're running *ansible 2.1.1.0*.
>> Thanks!
>>
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