Lookup failing from file

[Anuj Agrawal]

Running a playbook where contents are read from a file. It is an XML file.

Playbook yaml:

---

- hosts: all

  gather_facts: false

  vars:

    XmlFileContents: "{{ lookup('file', 'files/spring-proxy-handler-config.xml') }}"

  tasks:

    - debug: msg="the value of contents is {{XmlFileContents}}"

Error:

fatal: [myhost.com] => A variable inserted a new parameter into the module args. Be sure to quote variables if they contain equal signs (for example: "{{var}}").

It is a xml file containing some config and the file definitely has some equal signs in it. However, I do not understand the error message and, hence, cannot figure out a solution to my problem.

[James Cammarata]

Hi Anuj, what version of Ansible are you using?

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[Anuj Agrawal]

On Wed, Sep 17, 2014 at 10:52 PM, James Cammarata <jcamm...@ansible.com> wrote:

Hi Anuj, what version of Ansible are you using?

1.7.1

 

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[Anuj Agrawal]

Observation: It behaves strangely when there are spaces within a pair of quotes. And, my xml file has spaces within quotes in it.

[James Cammarata]

If you do msg="the value of contents is '{{XmlFileContents}}'" does it still raise an error?

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[Anuj Agrawal]

On Thu, Sep 18, 2014 at 12:47 AM, James Cammarata <jcamm...@ansible.com> wrote:

If you do msg="the value of contents is '{{XmlFileContents}}'" does it still raise an error?

Yes, it still raises the same error.

 

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[James Cammarata]

Ok, could you open an issue for this on GitHub and I'll take a look at it ASAP. You might also want to try checking out the version from GitHub and see if the issue is resolved there.

Thanks!

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[Tomasz Kontusz]

Anuj Agrawal <anujag...@gmail.com> napisał:

A workaround for this is using complex args:
- debug:
msg: '{{ XmlFileContents }}'
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