not able to match a string in a var list.

[matthew...@learnosity.com]

Hi All 

Doing something Im sure seems odd but building a production deployment script based on some very manual steps. The dev team list out all the services that need to be upgraded. I made a var called deploy to do two things.

1. Write out to a build file what needs to be build for prod. Its a flat file 

2. Be able to include upgrade tasks based on if api or data appears in the deployment list 

Example of my variable 

var:

  deploy:

      - api-app                     v2.41.0

      - api-develop              v0.23.2

      - api-tool                     v0.24.0

      - api-consumers         v0.16.0

      - api-data                    v0.57.2

      - api-bus                     eventbus-v1.1.2

Im trying to do the following. 

- include task/upgrade-api.yml

  when: "'api' in deploy"

This does not work as for some reason as Ive put spaces between it im thinking it cant seem to find 'api' at all. If I change the deploy var and remove the versions and have it as one liners like below, it will find a match if I was to have  when: "' api-too' in deploy. It seems to want to match a whole line and not part of it. I tried doing when: deploy |search("api'") but it failed because I think its a list. Im sure there is a better way to do this but wondering why my 'api in deploy" is not finding a match. 

var:

  deploy:

      - api-app

      - api-develop           

      - api-tool        

      - api-consumers      

      - api-data               

      - api-bus

[Jean-Yves LENHOF]

Le 30/03/2016 04:48, matthew...@learnosity.com a écrit :
> Hi All
>
> Doing something Im sure seems odd but building a production deployment
> script based on some very manual steps. The dev team list out all the
> services that need to be upgraded. I made a var called deploy to do
> two things.
> 1. Write out to a build file what needs to be build for prod. Its a
> flat file
> 2. Be able to include upgrade tasks based on if api or data appears in
> the deployment list
>
> Example of my variable
>
> var:
> deploy:
> - api-app v2.41.0
> - api-develop v0.23.2
> - api-tool v0.24.0
> - api-consumers v0.16.0
> - api-data v0.57.2
> - api-bus eventbus-v1.1.2

Using minus or "." in a variable is very, very bad idea... Like in
python those are functions
Try using underscore instead
So :
api-app => api_app
api-develop => api_develop
...



Regards,

[matthew...@learnosity.com]

Thanks Jean

But the issue is that even when I changed them to underscore (like below), Im finding when I do the "'api' in deploy" it seems to not find it. Its only when Its a completely match in a line it works. ie when: "'api_author' in deploy". 

Example (this does not work)

deploy:

      - api_assess

      - api_author

    

- include: tasks/update-api.yml

  when: "'api' in deploy"

Example (this works)

deploy:

      - api_assess

      - api_author

    

- include: tasks/update-api.yml

  when: "'api_assess' in deploy"

:/ 

[Uditha Desilva]

Looks to me like you're actually building a dict of dicts, rather than a simple list. For example, this works for me:

---

- hosts: localhost

  vars:

    deploy:

        api:

          app:        v2.41.0

          develop:    v0.23.2

          tool:       v0.24.0

          consumers:  v0.16.0

          data:       v0.57.2

          bus:        eventbus-v1.1.2

  tasks:

    - include: tasks/update-api.yml

      when: "'api' in deploy.keys()"

-- or have I misunderstood what you're trying to do?