Ansible expect module to prompt yes to a question (with spl characters)

[Vikas Kumar]

Hello Everyone,

How can I use Ansible expect module to say yes for this prompt.

Are you sure you want to continue (yes/no)?

I tried to use this in vain. I think Ansible does not like characters like these -  ( , / , ) , ?

- expect:
    command: /my/command
    responses:
      Are you sure you want to continue (yes/no)?: yes

Thanks in advance.

Cheers,

Vikas

[Kai Stian Olstad]

On 29.09.2016 15:03, Vikas Kumar wrote:
> Hello Everyone,
>
> How can I use Ansible expect module to say yes for this prompt.
>
> Are you sure you want to continue (yes/no)?
>
> I tried to use this in vain. I think Ansible does not like characters
> like

> these - *( , / , ) , ?*

Ansible and expect like them. But responses in expect is regexp and (, )
and ? and many more is special character,
for a full list see https://docs.python.org/2/library/re.html

>
> - expect:
> command: /my/command
> responses:
> Are you sure you want to continue (yes/no)?: yes
>

The special characters need to be escaped since you mean them literally.
Try this
Are you sure you want to continue \(yes/no\)\?: yes

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Kai Stian Olstad

[Vikas Kumar]

Thanks Kai,

I did tried that earlier but encountered below error

An exception occurred during task execution. The full traceback is:

Traceback (most recent call last):

  File "/var/folders/qw/5nbqbmj97hsfz3z5lkwqk9lr0000gn/T/ansible_eLtUlG/ansible_module_expect.py", line 230, in <module>

    main()

  File "/var/folders/qw/5nbqbmj97hsfz3z5lkwqk9lr0000gn/T/ansible_eLtUlG/ansible_module_expect.py", line 149, in main

    response = u'%s\n' % value.rstrip('\n').decode()

AttributeError: 'bool' object has no attribute 'rstrip'

fatal: [localhost]: FAILED! => {"changed": false, "failed": true, "invocation": {"module_name": "expect"}, "module_stderr": "Traceback (most recent call last):\n  File \"/var/folders/qw/5nbqbmj97hsfz3z5lkwqk9lr0000gn/T/ansible_eLtUlG/ansible_module_expect.py\", line 230, in <module>\n    main()\n  File \"/var/folders/qw/5nbqbmj97hsfz3z5lkwqk9lr0000gn/T/ansible_eLtUlG/ansible_module_expect.py\", line 149, in main\n    response = u'%s\\n' % value.rstrip('\\n').decode()\nAttributeError: 'bool' object has no attribute 'rstrip'\n", "module_stdout": "", "msg": "MODULE FAILURE", "parsed": false}

- Vikas

[Matt Martz]

You likely need to quote your answer, a bare `yes` in YAML is treated as a boolean, so you will need to quote it like:  "yes"

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[Vikas Kumar]

Thanks Matt, that worked like a charm. I will keep this in my notes. 

On Friday, 30 September 2016 00:03:20 UTC+10, Matt Martz wrote:

You likely need to quote your answer, a bare `yes` in YAML is treated as a boolean, so you will need to quote it like:  "yes"

[Murthy Vipparthy]

Hi there,

I am stuck @ similar place where I have to say enter after y when 'Do you accept this license[y/n]' . I have given following CODE and stuck, Any help appreciated.

-Murthy

responses:
         'Press \[Enter\] to continue:': \n
         'Do you accept this license\?\[y/n\]': y\n