Issuew when doing a When conditional with win_copy

[Tom Donnly]

Hello all,

    I am trying to do a conditional based on the output of a win_shell.  When I run this it's as if it doesn't see the conditional and copies to to all inventory not just what is coming back as True.  Any ideas?

---

- hosts: all

  tasks:

  - name: Run multi-lined shell commands

    win_shell: |

      if (Test-Path “HKLM:\Software\Microsoft\Microsoft SQL Server\Instance Names\SQL”) { write-host “True” } Else { write-host “False” }

    register: results

  - name: Process win_shell output

    set_fact:

      output: "{{ results.stdout }}" 

  -  win_copy:

       src: files/

       dest: c:\support

       When: ansible_facts['results.stdout'] == "True"

[Matt Martz]

Your `when` statement, needs to be indented to the same level as `win_copy`, not the same level as `dest`. Also it needs to be the lowercased `when`

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[TD]

Matt, I now see it is attempting it but I get and erroron win_copy:{

    "msg": "The conditional check 'ansible_facts['results.stdout'] == \"True\"' failed. The error was: error while evaluating conditional (ansible_facts['results.stdout'] == \"True\"): 'dict object' has no attribute 'results.stdout'\n\nThe error appears to be in '/var/lib/awx/projects/_8__test_project/Win_Feature_SQL.yml': line 11, column 6, but may\nbe elsewhere in the file depending on the exact syntax problem.\n\nThe offending line appears to be:\n\n      output: \"{{ results.stdout }}\"\n  -  win_copy:\n     ^ here\n",

    "_ansible_no_log": false

}

I do see my results from win_shell though:

{

    "changed": false,

    "ansible_facts": {

        "output": "True\n"

    },

    "_ansible_no_log": false

}

On Wednesday, September 18, 2019 at 12:47:43 PM UTC-4, Matt Martz wrote:

Your `when` statement, needs to be indented to the same level as `win_copy`, not the same level as `dest`. Also it needs to be the lowercased `when`

On Wed, Sep 18, 2019 at 11:04 AM Tom Donnly <tom....@gmail.com> wrote:

Hello all,

    I am trying to do a conditional based on the output of a win_shell.  When I run this it's as if it doesn't see the conditional and copies to to all inventory not just what is coming back as True.  Any ideas?

---

- hosts: all

  tasks:

  - name: Run multi-lined shell commands

    win_shell: |

      if (Test-Path “HKLM:\Software\Microsoft\Microsoft SQL Server\Instance Names\SQL”) { write-host “True” } Else { write-host “False” }

    register: results

  - name: Process win_shell output

    set_fact:

      output: "{{ results.stdout }}" 

  -  win_copy:

       src: files/

       dest: c:\support

       When: ansible_facts['results.stdout'] == "True"

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[Matt Martz]

`results.stdout` is not a literal variable name.  Instead what you are likely looking for is:

when: results.stdout|trim == 'True'

or since you use `set_fact` in between, it could also be:

when: output|trim == 'True'

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[TD]

That worked, Thanks for the help Matt.  Much appreciated

On Wednesday, September 18, 2019 at 1:18:43 PM UTC-4, Matt Martz wrote:

`results.stdout` is not a literal variable name.  Instead what you are likely looking for is:

when: results.stdout|trim == 'True'

or since you use `set_fact` in between, it could also be:

when: output|trim == 'True'

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