Vars output differences during ansible run when vars located in /defaults or /vars

[Walter Dolce]

Hi,

I've fairly new to Ansible and I've been trying things out with it.

I'm trying to write a simple playbook. As I'd like to have the ability to [let others] decide what to put in some vars and by following the docs on vars override rules I came up with something like the following:

roles/

   php-composer/

      defaults/main.xml

      tasks/main.xml

Where defaults/main.xml contains:

---

composer_destination: ./

And one of the tasks in tasks/main.xml contains:

---

- name: install composer to "{{ composer_destination }}" 

  command: chdir={{ composer_destination }} php installer 

  when: is_composer_installer_downloaded and is_composer_installer_downloaded|success

When I run the above, the output is:

TASK: [php-composer | install composer to "{{ composer_destination }}"] *******

But if I change/move the main.xml from defaults/ to vars/ I get the variable "expanded", like so:

TASK: [php-composer | install composer to "/the/directory/specified/in/vars_mainxml/"] *******

Is this expected?

If so, how can I always get a variable "expanded" in the name definition of a task?

I ask as I'm looking forward to write a reusable and configurable playbook but I would also like to always have the variable meant to give the destination directory outputted when performing a run like in the latter output above.

Thank you in advance,

Walter

[Matt Martz]

Just so that we are clear. Are your files really named with a .xml extension? It was it just a typo and you meant .yml?

.yml is the appropriate file extension.

In general it is not straightforward to get var expansion in the name of a task, mainly due to scope.  I would however expect defaults and cars to be in the same scope, but without the code in front of me I can't say. Although in general is recommend staying away from cars in the task names.

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[Walter Dolce]

Argh! Sorry that was a typo.
They have .yml extension.

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