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user1950349
user1950349

Reputation: 5146

Conditional variable check using Ansible with failed_when module?

I have an Ansible task in which I am using variables - window and total_files. And I am passing these two variable values from the command line:

 - name: Check all files
   find: paths=/var/lib/goldy/jobs/processdata/workspace/files
         file_type=file
         age=-{{ window }}m
         age_stamp=mtime
   register: files
   failed_when: files.matched < total_files

Here is how I am running:

ansible-playbook -e 'host_key_checking=False' -e 'total_files=6' -e 'window=10' abc.yml

But somehow my total_files variable is not working at all with failed_when module. I tried all the combinations I can think of but if I use "{{ total_files }}" like this then I am getting warning so that's why I started using total_files like this but still it doesn't work. Any thoughts on what I am doing wrong?

[WARNING]: when statements should not include jinja2 templating delimiters such as {{ }} or {% %}. Found: files.matched < "{{ total_files }}"

Upvotes: 0

Views: 1484

Answers (1)

techraf
techraf

Reputation: 68459

And I am passing these two variable value from the command line

So you are passing strings, hence you compare files.matched to a string value.

Change to:

failed_when: files.matched < total_files | int

The warning you posted is irrelevant to the root problem.

Upvotes: 1

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