CODEWITHSUNDEEP
ansibleansible-2.x
prelic
prelic

Reputation: 4518

Ansible handlers are not firing?

I'm pretty new to Ansible (running version 2.2.1.0), and so I have been following the basic directory structure so far. Recently I tried to move some tasks to the handlers area, but I'm getting some odd behavior.

My tree structure looks like:

host_inventory
host_vars
site.yml
roles
  common
    handlers
      main.yml
    meta
      main.yml
    tasks
      main.yml
    vars
      main.yml

There are really only two relevant files (I think).

This version of tasks/main.yml DOES call the handler:

roles/common/tasks/main.yml:

---
  - name: make test file
    shell: "touch /home/hello"
    notify: say goodbye

and in roles/common/handlers/main.yml:

---
  - name: say goodbye
    shell: "touch /home/goodbye"

This does NOT call the handler:

roles/common/tasks/main.yml

---
  - name: test for file
    stat:
      path: /home/hello
    notify: say goodbye

roles/common/handlers/main.yml

---
  - name: say goodbye
    shell: "echo something"

I can't understand why my stat tasks are not calling their handlers.

Can anyone provide some insight? I feel like I'm missing something obvious.

Upvotes: 1

Views: 2726

Answers (1)

Konstantin Suvorov
Konstantin Suvorov

Reputation: 68269

Handlers are notified only when task state is changed.
In your example shell task is always in changed state, but stat task is always in ok state.

See documentation for more details.

Upvotes: 2

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