'unsupported parameter for module: notify' error when trying to call notify from a task

[Colin Anderson]

Hi,

I'm trying to run a playbook that installs and restarts a tomcat instance but when I run it it fails with the following message:

TASK [tomcat-datagateway : Configure the tomcat-datagateway server.xml] ********
fatal: [10.10.1.3]: FAILED! => {"changed": true, "failed": true, "msg": "unsupported parameter for module: notify"}

I have the following layout for the tomcat-datagateway role:

roles/tomcat-datagateway/
  files/
    tomcat-datagateway (environment script)
    tomcat-datagateway.sh (init.d script)
  handlers/
    main.yml
  tasks/
    main.yml
  templates/
    server.xml
    tomcat-users.xml
  vars/
    main.yml

The relevant part of the tasks/main.yml looks like this (everything up until this point works fine):

- name: Configure the tomcat-datagateway server.xml
  template:
    src: server.xml
    dest: /home/apiproc/tomcat-datagateway/apache-tomcat-8.0.32/conf
    notify: restart tomcat-datagateway

The handlers/main.yml looks like this:

---
- name: restart tomcat-datagateway
  service: name=tomcat-datagateway state=restarted

I'm quite new to Ansible so I was wondering if I've missed something out perhaps?

Thanks,
Colin.

[Matt Martz]

`notify` is indeed not a parameter of the `template` module.

Effectively this error is stating that you have indented your `notify` too far.  It should be directly aligned with `template` and `name` and not nested under `template`

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[Colin Anderson]

Aah yes, that did the trick; lesson learned. Thanks.

Colin.

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