Conditional handlers from a task

[Samnang Sen]

FYI, I'm running my Ansible playbook in "pull-mode" not push mode. Therefore, my nodes will publish the results of their task via Hipchat.

With that said, I have a task that installs RPMs. When the installs are successful, the nodes notify via Hipchat that the task was successfully run. Now, in the event that a task fails, i force it to notify hipchat w/ the "--force-handlers" paramter. My question, is there a way to display a message according to whether it fails or runs successfully? 

If I had to, I don't mind having multiple handlers because I would need to modify the color for fail tasks to red as suppose to the default yellow or green for a successful run.

This works great

# Task

- name: Install Perl modules

  command: sudo rpm -Uvh {{ rpm_repository }}/{{ item.key }}-{{ item.value.svn_tag }}.rpm --force

  with_dict: deploy_modules_perl

  notify: announce_hipchat

# Handler

- name: announce_hipchat

  local_action: hipchat

            from="deployment"

            token={{ hipchat_auth_token }}

            room={{ hipchat_room }}

            msg="[{{ ansible_hostname }}] Successfully installed RPMs!"

            validate_certs="no"

[Stephen Granger]

I'd use register for the first task and just use the when conditional.

- name: Install rpm

  yum: name=

  sudo: true

  ignore_errors; yes

  register: yum_install

- name: Notify Hipchat of success

  hipchat: ...

              color: green

  when: yum_install|success

- name: Notify Hipchat of failure

  hipchat: ...

              color: red

  when: yum_install|failed

https://docs.ansible.com/playbooks_conditionals.html

There maybe other ways to do it though.

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[Samnang Sen]

I'm such an idiot, "result|failed" works like a charm. I kept reading the "|" as an "OR" statement. Ugh.

[Stephen Granger]

It just came to me why you would be using handlers and it (maybe) makes sense when you don't what to have the hipchat task run every time as the rpm state may not change.

You could probably get around this though by using tags to have these as deploy steps.

http://docs.ansible.com/playbooks_tags.html

Your workflow may not require this though as you are using ansible-pull.

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