Re: [ansible-project] Question: how to use variable in with_sequence, casting to int results in zero value

[frank]

Hi Kai,

Thanks for your reaction.

I think item.path won't work because of the structure of result.files. 
result.files contains a list  [..path..], [.path..]  ,So in the debug var i 
should reference item[0].path , item[1].path

I worked my way around creating a list

# create a list of policies to be defined
- name: create list of files
  debug:
msg: "{{ result.files | map(attribute='path') | list }}"
  register: fileList


Op donderdag 1 december 2016 20:02:44 UTC+1 schreef Kai Stian Olstad:
>
> On 30. nov. 2016 09:52, fr...@tom.nl  wrote: 
> > I am trying to process the result from the find module. The result 
> contains 
> > 3 file paths which i would  like to process in a loop. 
> > The number of files depends on the number of files found in the 
> directories 
> > and is set by result.matched 
> > 
> > Using the with_sequence loop should do the trick, i think. But i ran 
> into a 
> > problem. 
> > 
> > with_sequence: start=0 end={{ variable }}, expects {{ variable }} to be 
> an 
> > integer. Casting {{ variable | int}} results in a zero value, which 
> should 
> > be 3. 
> > 
> > Any suggestions how to solve or work around my issue? 
>
> Why not use with_items? 
>
>
> > After casting the variable correctly to an integer, off course i still 
> have 
> > to subtract 1 to set the correct index value for the results array. 
> > 
> > *Variables*: 
> > 
> > file_path: "roles/ansible-role-iamGroups/files" 
> > template_path: "roles/ansible-role-iamGroups/templates" 
> > 
> > declared_int: 3 
> > 
> > *Tasks*: 
> > 
> > - name: find files 
> >   find: 
> > recurse: yes 
> > patterns: "*.json" 
> > paths: 
> > 
> "/home/user/PycharmProjects/playbook-aws-billing/roles/ansible-role-iamGroups/templates/"
>  
>
> >   register: result 
> > 
> > - name: register numbers variable 
> >   shell: "echo {{result.matched}}" 
> >   register: number 
> > 
> > - name: list number variable (==> string value 3) 
> >   debug: var=number 
> > 
> > - name: list result hard coded (works) 
> >   debug: "var=result.files[{{item}}].path" 
> >   with_sequence: "start=0 end=2 stride=1" 
>
> - name: list result 
>debug: var=item.path 
>with_items: result.files 
>
>
> -- 
> Kai Stian Olstad 
>

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[ansible-project] Question: how to use variable in with_sequence, casting to int results in zero value

[frank]

I am trying to process the result from the find module. The result contains 
3 file paths which i would  like to process in a loop. 
The number of files depends on the number of files found in the directories 
and is set by result.matched

Using the with_sequence loop should do the trick, i think. But i ran into a 
problem.

with_sequence: start=0 end={{ variable }}, expects {{ variable }} to be an 
integer. Casting {{ variable | int}} results in a zero value, which should 
be 3.

Any suggestions how to solve or work around my issue?

After casting the variable correctly to an integer, off course i still have 
to subtract 1 to set the correct index value for the results array.

*Variables*:

file_path: "roles/ansible-role-iamGroups/files"
template_path: "roles/ansible-role-iamGroups/templates"

declared_int: 3 

*Tasks*:

- name: find files
  find:
recurse: yes
patterns: "*.json"
paths: 
"/home/user/PycharmProjects/playbook-aws-billing/roles/ansible-role-iamGroups/templates/"
  register: result

- name: register numbers variable
  shell: "echo {{result.matched}}"
  register: number

- name: list number variable (==> string value 3)
  debug: var=number

- name: list result hard coded (works)
  debug: "var=result.files[{{item}}].path"
  with_sequence: "start=0 end=2 stride=1"

- name: list result with variable casted to integer (number is casted to 0, 
should be 3 )
  debug: "var=result.files[{{item}}].path"
  with_sequence: "start=0 end={{ number | int }} stride=1"

- name: list result with  declared integer variable minus 1 (works)
  debug: "var=result.files[{{item}}].path"
  with_sequence: "start=0 end={{ declared_int - 1 }} stride=1"

- name: list result without casting variable number ( results in parsing 
error)
  debug: "var=result.files[{{item}}].path"
  with_sequence: "start=0 end={{ number }} stride=1"

*Output*:

ok: [aws] => {
"changed": false, 
"examined": 25, 
"files": [
{
"atime": 1480345980.447014, 
"ctime": 1480345980.451014, 
"dev": 2049, 
"gid": 1000, 
"inode": 523227, 
"isblk": false, 
"ischr": false, 
"isdir": false, 
"isfifo": false, 
"isgid": false, 
"islnk": false, 
"isreg": true, 
"issock": false, 
"isuid": false, 
"mode": "0644", 
"mtime": 1480345980.447014, 
"nlink": 1, 
"path": 
"/home/user/PycharmProjects/playbook-aws-billing/roles/ansible-role-iamGroups/templates/prod/ReadOnly/readOnly.json",
 
"rgrp": true, 
"roth": true, 
"rusr": true, 
"size": 1655, 
"uid": 1000, 
"wgrp": false, 
"woth": false, 
"wusr": true, 
"xgrp": false, 
"xoth": false, 
"xusr": false
}, 
{
"atime": 1480345980.523014, 
"ctime": 1480345980.527014, 
"dev": 2049, 
"gid": 1000, 
"inode": 523175, 
"isblk": false, 
"ischr": false, 
"isdir": false, 
"isfifo": false, 
"isgid": false, 
"islnk": false, 
"isreg": true, 
"issock": false, 
"isuid": false, 
"mode": "0644", 
"mtime": 1480345980.527014, 
"nlink": 1, 
"path": 
"/home/user/PycharmProjects/playbook-aws-billing/roles/ansible-role-iamGroups/templates/prod/PowerUser/iamAccess.json",
 
"rgrp": true, 
"roth": true, 
"rusr": true, 
"size": 136, 
"uid": 1000, 
"wgrp": false, 
"woth": false, 
"wusr": true, 
"xgrp": false, 
"xoth": false, 
"xusr": false
}, 
{
"atime": 1480345980.531014, 
"ctime": 1480345980.539014, 
"dev": 2049, 
"gid": 1000, 
"inode": 523226, 
"isblk": false, 
"ischr": false, 
"isdir": false, 
"isfifo": false, 
"isgid": false, 
"islnk": false, 
"isreg": true, 
"issock": false, 
"isuid": false, 
"mode": "0644", 
"mtime": 1480345980.531014, 
"nlink": 1, 
"path": 
"/home/user/PycharmProjects/playbook-aws-billing/roles/ansible-role-iamGroups/templates/prod/PowerUser/powerUser.json",
 
"rgrp": true, 
"roth": true, 
"rusr": true, 
"size": 138, 
"uid": 1000, 
"wgrp": false, 
"woth": false, 
"wusr": true, 
"xgrp": false, 
"xoth": false, 
"xusr": false
}
], 
"invocation": {
"module_args": {
"age": null, 
"age_stamp":