interpolated parameterized role dependencies

[alexa...@gmail.com]

Hey guys, first of all, I think Ansible is a great project. In my most recent project, I've started to explore the various ways to manage configurations, and one of the schemes that I wanted to explore was using parameterized role dependencies. Essentially, the setup of the problem is similar to: https://github.com/sivel/ansible-training-content/blob/master/advanced/chapter_08.yml#L105

When I define a role, I'd like to be able to define inside meta/main.yml, not only the dependencies, but also the parameters passed into the dependencies (interpolated). Here is an example: http://pastebin.com/rwmnke9V

I have set hash_behavior to merge because I want to essentially pass in a dictionary to each role dependency (which houses the parameters they need to function).

Ansible errors out with: AttributeError: 'unicode' object has no attribute 'iteritems'

What's strange is that this sort of interpolation works within playbooks, in that I can use the exact same syntax to be able to pass dictionary values into roles for plays. Is this a use case that ansible can satisfy, and/or am I doing something wrong? Thanks for reading!

[Michael DeHaan]

I think the best thing here is to file a minimal reproducer in GitHub that shows how to reproduce your unicode error, it is probably not explicitly a role dependency thing but something we just need to handle.

Be sure your Ansible version is at least 1.7.2 before filing.

Thanks!

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