How to get variables from python to Ansible?

[Tiglath]

 

I know that

 

     register: var

 

Allows to reference  var.stdout, but... 

 

Say I call a python script that prints to stdout more than one argument as in a tuple : (arg1, arg2, arg3) 

 

How can I get that into individual variables in Ansible?

 

Thanks

 

 

 

 

[Michael DeHaan]

Easiest would be to write a fact module, and return a JSON response that contains the dictionary "ansible_facts".  Register does not need to be used with these modules.

Take a look at any module in the tree ending in "_facts" for an example, the setup module is a special case of those, that is called automatically.

--Michael

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[Tiglath]

 

I used the code of the 'user' module to try, and it works, unfortunately I wanted to prompt the user for the args and the custom module can't seem to do an interactive session.   

 

The var_prompt module is not really suitable, for what I see.  I have to get 4 answers and a lot of work to validate them in between, that's why I think it's best to do that in Python, then pass to Ansible the arguments to use in the deployment and fire it off.    Looks like I'll have to use --extra_vars to pass the args to Ansible.  Pity, a custom module sounded neat. 

 

Thanks

[Michael DeHaan]

This seems to be a different question.

Since this is about writing modules, would you mind asking on ansible-devel?

Apologies on being the list cop but this is a very active list, and I also want to encourage the devel list a bit.

Thanks!

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