Possible to have --list-tasks be aware of variable names?

[Marc Abramowitz]

I have this playbook:

---

- hosts: localhost

  roles:

    - { role: webserver, tags: ['webserver'], app_role: 'webserver' }

    - { role: dbserver, tags: ['dbserver'], app_role: 'dbserver' }

The two roles have a task with a "name" that has "{{ app_role }}" in it. E.g.:

$ cat roles/webserver/tasks/main.yml

---

- name: "Show this is the {{ app_role }} role"

  debug: msg="This is the webserver role"

If I execute the playbook normally, ansible shows the task names with the variable substituted in, which is great:

TASK: [webserver | Show this is the webserver role]

TASK: [dbserver | Show this is the dbserver role]

But with --list-tasks, it doesn't do the variable substitution:

$ ansible-playbook role_tags.yml --tags=dbserver,webserver --list-tasks

playbook: role_tags.yml

  play #1 (localhost):

    Show this is the {{ app_role }} role

    Show this is the {{ app_role }} role

Is it possible to get ansible to display the name with the variable substitutions applied when running with --list-tasks?

Thanks!

Marc

[Michael DeHaan]

Technically possible, but perhaps a little frustrating to implement :)

We'd be happy if someone wanted to take a crack at it, though I think in general we're waiting for some refactoring to happen first so there's more one common entity to ask about variable "context" questions before going at it.

(It should be noted that inventory variables, because they can be different per host, will also never show up in task names)

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[Mumshad Mannambeth]

Hi Michael,

Any update on this? Has this been implemented since the original post? or are there any plans now?

Thanks

Mumshad