ERROR! 'item' is undefined" with synchronize module + with items

[AS]

Do you guys know why ansible gives me an error 'item' is undefined on this specific case?

Version:

Ansible 2.0.0.2

Ubuntu 15.10

- name: Synchronize files 

  synchronize:

    src: "{{ item.source }}"

    dest: "{{ item.dest }}"

    recursive: yes

    links: yes

    times: yes

    rsync_opts: "--devices"

    with_items:

      - { source: project/conf/file.conf, dest: /etc/asdf/nginx.conf }

      - { source: project/conf/somefolder/, dest: /etc/asdf/somefolder/ }

      - { source: /conf/asdf/anotherfolder/, dest: /etc/asfd/anotherfolder/ }

Result:

TASK [mumbojumbo: Synchronize files] ***********************************************

task path: /home/asdf/wef/main.yml:27

fatal: [xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx]: FAILED! => {"failed": true, "msg": "ERROR! 'item' is undefined"}

Second problem with the same case:

By some reason using quotes causes an Syntax error?

- name: Synchronize files 

  synchronize:

    src: "{{ item.source }}"

    dest: "{{ item.dest }}"

    recursive: yes

    links: yes

    times: yes

    rsync_opts: "--devices"

    with_items:

      - { source: 'project/conf/file.conf', dest: '/etc/asdf/nginx.conf' }

      - { source: 'project/conf/somefolder/', dest: '/etc/asdf/somefolder/' }

      - { source: '/conf/asdf/anotherfolder/', dest: '/etc/asfd/anotherfolder/' }

-->

ERROR! Syntax Error while loading YAML.

The error appears to have been in '/home/osboxes/analytics/tstdeployment/roles/orfer/tasks/main.yml': line 36, column 86, but may

be elsewhere in the file depending on the exact syntax problem.

The offending line appears to be:

    with_items:

      - { source: 'project/conf/file.conf', dest: '/etc/asdf/nginx.conf' }

                                                                        ^ here

This one looks easy to fix.  It seems that there is a value started

with a quote, and the YAML parser is expecting to see the line ended

with the same kind of quote.  For instance:

    when: "ok" in result.stdout

Could be written as:

   when: '"ok" in result.stdout'

Or equivalently:

   when: "'ok' in result.stdout"

[AS]

Fixed the indentation to with_items block but still it does not work.

Try 1

- name: Synchronize files 

  synchronize: src="{{ item.source }}" dest="{{ item.dest }}" recursive=yes links=yes times=yes rsync_opts="--devices"

  with_items:

     - { source: project/conf/file.conf, dest: '/etc/asdf/nginx.conf }

     - { source: project/conf/somefolder/, dest: '/etc/asdf/somefolder/ }

     - { source: /conf/asdf/anotherfolder/', dest: '/etc/asfd/anotherfolder/ }

 

---> 

  

TASK [mumbojumbo : Synchronize files] ***********************************************

failed: [xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx] => (item={u'dest': u'/etc/asdf/nginx.conf\xa0', u'source': u'project/conf/file.conf'}) => {"failed": true, "item": {"dest": "/etc/asdf/nginx.conf ", "source": "project/conf/file.conf"}, "module_stderr": "sudo: a password is required\n", "module_stdout": "", "msg": "MODULE FAILURE", "parsed": false}

failed: [xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx] => (item={u'dest': u'/etc/asdf/somefolder/\xa0', u'source': u'project/conf/somefolder/'}) => {"failed": true, "item": {"dest": "/etc/asdf/somefolder/ ", "source": "project/conf/somefolder/"}, "module_stderr": "sudo: a password is required\n", "module_stdout": "", "msg": "MODULE FAILURE", "parsed": false}

failed: [xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx] => (item={u'dest': u'/etc/asfd/anotherfolder/\xa0', u'source': u'/conf/asdf/anotherfolder/'}) => {"failed": true, "item": {"dest": "/etc/asfd/anotherfolder/ ", "source": "/conf/asdf/anotherfolder/"}, "module_stderr": "sudo: a password is required\n", "module_stdout": "", "msg": "MODULE FAILURE", "parsed": false}

Try 2

- name: Synchronize files 

  synchronize:

    src: "{{ item.source }}"

    dest: "{{ item.dest }}"

    recursive: yes

    links: yes

    times: yes

    rsync_opts: "--devices"

    with_items:

       - { source: project/conf/file.conf, dest: /etc/asdf/nginx.conf }

       - { source: project/conf/somefolder/, dest: /etc/asdf/somefolder/ }

       - { source: /conf/asdf/anotherfolder/, dest: /etc/asfd/anotherfolder/ }

  

TASK [mumbojumbo : Synchronize files] ***********************************************

fatal: [xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx]: FAILED! => {"failed": true, "msg": "ERROR! 'item' is undefined"}

Try 3

- name: Synchronize files 

  synchronize:

    src: "{{ item.source }}"

    dest: "{{ item.dest }}"

    recursive: yes

    links: yes

    times: yes

    rsync_opts: "--devices"

    with_items:

       - { source: 'project/conf/file.conf', dest: '/etc/asdf/nginx.conf' }

       - { source: 'project/conf/somefolder/', dest: '/etc/asdf/somefolder/' }

       - { source: '/conf/asdf/anotherfolder/', dest: '/etc/asfd/anotherfolder/' }

ERROR! Syntax Error while loading YAML.

The error appears to have been in '/home/osboxes/analytics/tstdeployment/roles/orfer/tasks/main.yml': line 36, column 86, but may

be elsewhere in the file depending on the exact syntax problem.

The offending line appears to be:

    with_items:

      - { source: 'project/conf/file.conf', dest: '/etc/asdf/nginx.conf' }

                                                                        ^ here

This one looks easy to fix.  It seems that there is a value started

with a quote, and the YAML parser is expecting to see the line ended

with the same kind of quote.  For instance:

    when: "ok" in result.stdout

Could be written as:

   when: '"ok" in result.stdout'

Or equivalently:

   when: "'ok' in result.stdout"

Try 4

   

- name: Synchronize files 

  synchronize:

    src: "{{ item.source }}"

    dest: "{{ item.dest }}"

    recursive: yes

    links: yes

    times: yes

    rsync_opts: "--devices"

    with_items:

       - { source: "project/conf/file.conf", dest: "/etc/asdf/nginx.conf" }

       - { source: "project/conf/somefolder/", dest: "/etc/asdf/somefolder/" }

       - { source: "/conf/asdf/anotherfolder/", dest: "/etc/asfd/anotherfolder/" }

  

[AS]

Struggled with this problem for few days and finally managed to fix it.

1. Removed ansible from the machine (deleted everything)

ansible --version
ansible 2.0.1.0 (detached HEAD bec698052f) last updated 2016/02/22 11:04:54 (GMT +100)
  lib/ansible/modules/core: (detached HEAD 9552a22b83) last updated 2016/02/22 11:04:59 (GMT +100)
  lib/ansible/modules/extras: (detached HEAD 51cddf2b35) last updated 2016/02/22 11:05:05 (GMT +100)
  config file =
  configured module search path = Default w/o overrides

2. Executed following code:

 - name: Synchronize files
   delegate_to: "{{ inventory_hostname }}"
   synchronize:

     recursive: yes
     links: yes
     times:

yes
     src: "{{ item.source }}"
     dest: "{{ item.dest }}"
   with_items:
        - { source: '{{ some_path }}/some.git/file.txt', dest: '/abc/def/file.txt' }

--> works ok

I have had multiple syntax errors in my "code" but by some reason had more problems with 2.0.0.2 and 22th Feb 2016 git version seems to work better for me.

Found out that one error that I had was one space character indentation before the block and previous block was without the indentation so that caused one error. However; there were multiple other small syntax errors.