Re: [ansible-devel] Access group_vars from custom module

2019-10-03 Thread Alan Rominger
Try the environment variable ANSIBLE_VERBOSE_TO_STDERR, and redirect in bash (> or 2>) as necessary. I think there's also a flag to pipe the JSON into a file. Alan github: AlanCoding On Thu, Oct 3, 2019 at 9:12 AM Alexandru Obretin < alexandru.obreti...@gmail.com> wrote: > Thanks for the answer

Re: [ansible-devel] Access group_vars from custom module

2019-10-03 Thread Alexandru Obretin
Thanks for the answer Alan. A broader context of my scenario is the following: 1. In order to send HTTP requests to my equipment I have to be logged in, to be authorized. 2. The username and the password are passed as variables inside the inventory file. 3. Inside the login function in my custo

Re: [ansible-devel] Access group_vars from custom module

2019-10-03 Thread Alan Rominger
The call pattern I'd suggest for ansible-inventory would be like ansible-inventory -i my_inventory.yml --list --export With the export option, group_vars should show under the group. I don't understand the rest of your problem about expecting vars from module_utils, but I hope this gets you close

[ansible-devel] Access group_vars from custom module

2019-10-03 Thread Alexandru Obretin
Hello, I am developing some custom Ansible modules used for configuring network TAPs and they basically rely on a HTTP connection. Therefore, I have designed a httapi plugin module and I want to get the group_vars information associated to the current host directly from my custom module_utils