outputting dictionary variables using copy module not working

[Abey Thomas]

Hi,

I am running ansible on centos 7.4.1708 . Not sure what I am doing wrong but the dictionary variables are not completely written by the copy module.

Here is my complete YAML file :

---
- hosts: localhost
  gather_facts: False
  vars:
    var_dict1:
      127.0.0.1: localhost
      10.10.10.10: hostnameinternal1
      10.20.10.10: hostnameinternal2
  tasks:

  - name: Copy the contents of var_dict1 to output1
    copy:
      content: |
        {% for key in var_dict1 %}
        {{ item.key}}    {{item.value}}
        {% endfor %}
      dest: "/usershome/output1"
    run_once: yes
    with_dict: "{{ var_dict1 }}"


and here is the file /usershome/output1
127.0.0.1    localhost
127.0.0.1    localhost
127.0.0.1    localhost

my version
ansible 2.3.2.0
  config file = /etc/ansible/ansible.cfg
  configured module search path = Default w/o overrides
  python version = 2.7.5 (default, Aug  4 2017, 00:39:18) [GCC 4.8.5 20150623 (Red Hat 4.8.5-16)]


The first entry in the file is correct but the rest are duplicates of the first entry . I can correctly see that in verbose the item key and value are different inside the loop but not in the output file.

What is going wrong here?

Regards,
Abey

[Kai Stian Olstad]

Because of the with_dict the task will run 3 times, one for each item in
var_dict1.
Only the last will stick since the file will be overwritten.

Do this instead

- name: Copy the contents of var_dict1 to output1
copy:
content: |

{% for key, value in var_dict1.iteritems() %}
{{ key }} {{ value }}

{% endfor %}
dest: "/usershome/output1"
run_once: yes

--
Kai Stian Olstad

[Abey Thomas]

Hi Kai,

Thanks that worked. Did not know about iteritems until now.

Regards,
Abey