Remote lookup with remote(...)

[anatoly techtonik]

Is it possible to implement remote lookup plugins?

Something like:

  - name: create .hgrc if necessary
    file: path={{ hgrc }} owner={{ user }} state=touch
    when: remote('file_exists', '{{ hgrc }}') == False

[Brian Coca]

they are called tasks

[Brian Coca]

- name: check exists

   stat: path={{hgrc}}

   ignore_errors: true

   register: hgrcfile

 - name: create .hgrc if necessary

   file: path={{ hgrc }} owner={{ user }} state=touch

   when: hgrcfile.failed

On Tue, Mar 4, 2014 at 10:10 PM, Brian Coca <bria...@gmail.com> wrote:

they are called tasks

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[anatoly techtonik]

On Wed, Mar 5, 2014 at 6:11 AM, Brian Coca <bria...@gmail.com> wrote:
> - name: check exists
> stat: path={{hgrc}}
> ignore_errors: true
> register: hgrcfile
>
> - name: create .hgrc if necessary
> file: path={{ hgrc }} owner={{ user }} state=touch
> when: hgrcfile.failed
>
>
> On Tue, Mar 4, 2014 at 10:10 PM, Brian Coca <bria...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> they are called tasks
>

Thanks. Tasks are fine, but distracting from logic. Lookup plugins are
just right for these kind of checks, but they only work on controlling
machine, so it would be nice to have a mechanism for remote lookups, no?

[Michael DeHaan]

No, lookup plugins (except when they implement iterators) are a hack to fill in some rare but important use cases, most notably sourcing file data to the authorized_key module, and a few others.   They are rarely used.

I'd use the stat module here.

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