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jdoestackoverflow
jdoestackoverflow

Reputation: 637

Skip Ansible task when variable not defined

I have the following task in a playbook:

- name: task xyz  
  copy:  
    src="{{ item }}"  
    dest="/tmp/{{ item }}"  
  with_items: "{{ y.z }}"  
  when: y.z is defined

y.z is not defined, so I'm expecting the task to be skipped. Instead, I receive:

FAILED! => {"failed": true, "msg": "'dict object' has no attribute 'z'"

I have found: How to run a task when variable is undefined in ansible? but it seems I implemented just that. What am I doing wrong here?

Upvotes: 1

Views: 8471

Answers (1)

techraf
techraf

Reputation: 68639

The problem here is that with_items is evaluated before when. Actually in real scenarios you put item in the when conditional. See: Loops and Conditionals.

This task will work for you:

- name: task xyz
  copy:  
    src: "{{ item }}"  
    dest: "/tmp/{{ item }}"  
  with_items: "{{ (y|default([])).z | default([]) }}"

Upvotes: 8

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