[DEPRECATION WARNING]: Skipping task due to undefined Error

Julien Tognazzi

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Apr 21, 2016, 7:59:32 AM4/21/16

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Hi,

running the following play generate this not so useful DEPRECATION WARNING

---
- hosts: localhost


  vars:
#  - mounts:
#    - '1'
#    - '2'


  tasks:
  - name: "Tasks generating fatal error"
    debug: var=mounts
    with_items:
      - "{{ mounts }}"
    when: mounts is defined
    tags: "mounts"

$ ansible --version
ansible 2.0.1.0
  config file = /vagrant/sysadmin/ansible/coremedia7/ansible.cfg
  configured module search path = Default w/o overrides

$ ansible-playbook fatal.yml
 [WARNING]: provided hosts list is empty, only localhost is available




PLAY ***************************************************************************


TASK [Tasks generating fatal error] ********************************************
Thursday 21 April 2016  13:47:46 +0200 (0:00:00.034)       0:00:00.034 ********
[DEPRECATION WARNING]: Skipping task due to undefined Error, in the future this will be a fatal
error.. This feature will be removed in a future release. Deprecation warnings can be disabled by
setting deprecation_warnings=False in ansible.cfg.

It only happen if the mount variable is undefined...

But the when clause should prevent it to run, isn't it ?

What am I missing ?

Should I file an issue for this ?

thanks for any tips.

Julien.

Julien Tognazzi

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Apr 21, 2016, 8:03:58 AM4/21/16

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I forgot to add that if using the bare variable with with_items, it doesn't generate the previous warning.

Matt Martz

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Apr 21, 2016, 8:04:09 AM4/21/16

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`when` statements run for every iteration of the `with_` loop, not before the loop is evaluated.

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