Tests `test_playbook_undefined_varsX_fail` check if ansible detects
undefined variables when `error_on_undefined_vars` is enabled. These
tests fail without "Improve behavior with error_on_undefined_vars
enabled" patch.
Tests `test_playbook_undefined_varsX_ignore` check if ansible ignores
undefined variables when `error_on_undefined_vars` is disabled.
Also modify PlayBook._run_task_internal() so error_on_undefined_vars is
testable.
The block that added the original list of roles was indented too far,
and was only being reached if a role had dependencies. This resulted
in roles without dependencies from being added to the list of roles.
Credit goes to looped for reporting and diagnosing the issue.
Fixes#3686
Dependencies are enabled by adding a new directory/file named
meta/main.yml to the role. The format of the dependencies are:
dependencies:
- { role: foo, x: 1, y: 2 }
- { role: bar, x: 3, y: 4 }
...
Dependencies inherit variables as they are seen at the time of the
dependency inclusion. For example, if foo(x=1, y=2) has a dependency
on bar(x=3,z=4), then bar will have variables (x=3,y=2,z=4).
Different roles can have dependencies on the same role, and this
variable inheritence allows for the reuse of generic roles quite easily.
For example:
Role 'car' has the following dependencies:
dependencies:
- { role: wheel, n: 1 }
- { role: wheel, n: 2 }
- { role: wheel, n: 3 }
- { role: wheel, n: 4 }
Role 'wheel' has the following dependencies:
dependencies:
- { role: tire }
- { role: brake }
The role 'car' is then used as follows:
- { role: car, type: honda }
And tasks/main.yml in each role simply contains the following:
- name: {{ type }} whatever {{ n }}
command: echo ''
TASK: [honda tire 1]
TASK: [honda brake 1]
TASK: [honda wheel 1]
TASK: [honda tire 2]
TASK: [honda brake 2]
TASK: [honda wheel 2]
TASK: [honda tire 3]
TASK: [honda brake 3]
TASK: [honda wheel 3]
TASK: [honda tire 4]
TASK: [honda brake 4]
TASK: [honda wheel 4]
TASK: [I'm a honda] <- (this is in roles/car/tasks/main.yml)
Previous patch was reverted due to the fact that there was an issue
with the results not always being a dictionary (they're sometimes
a unicode string, ie. when the with_items is used with yum). This
minor change corrects that by checking for a dict object.
Previous commit c3659741 expanded sudo_user during task construction,
but this is too early as it does not pick up variables set during
the play.
This commit moves sudo_user expansion to the runner after variables
have been merged.
If a variable was provided for an include, in either of these ways:
---
- hosts: all
tasks:
- include: included.yml param=www-data
- include: included.yml
vars:
param: www-data
and then that param was used as the value of sudo_user in the included
tasks:
---
- name: do something as a parameterized sudo_user
command: whoami
sudo: yes
sudo_user: $param
you would receive a "failed to parse: usage: sudo" error back and the
command would not execute.
This seemed to be due to a missing call to template.template somewhere,
because the final value being passed through ssh was still `$param`.
After some digging, the issue seems to instead have been a problem with
providing the wrong context to the template for expansion. Inside the
`Task` logic, it was passing `play.vars` as the context, where
`module_vars` seemed more appropriate. After replacing it, my test case
above ran without issue. There was a comment above suggesting that the
template call might be unnecessary, but removing it made the original
error return, since it is not getting escaped later down the line. I
removed the comment since it was inaccurate.
I tried to actually incorporate my test case above into the test suite
as a regression test, but was unable to figure out how to structure it.
The existing test infrastructure seemed to only be testing for correct
number of counts in things (ok vs. changed, etc.), without regard for
whether the content generated by the command is correct. If there is an
example of a test similar to this one (where I would want to check the
JSON generated to make sure sudo_user had been converted), please let me
know and I will be happy to submit an additional patch.
Petr Svoboda
James Cammarata
René Moser
Serge van Ginderachter
Michael DeHaan
Chris Church
Michael DeHaan
Stoned Elipot
Ralph Tice
Rodney Quillo
jeromew
Tin Tvrtkovic
Alan Descoins
Ninety Thirty
George Miroshnykov
David Golden
Kent Frazier
Tim Habermaas
Matt Coddington