variable isn't expanded correctly?

[Dario Bertini]

Hi, I have a variable set up like this:

ansible_ssh_user: "{{ lookup('env', 'USER') }}"

all the commands execute fine, until I get to the point where I want to use the synchronize module, where it fails with:

failed: [vmArServer] => {"failed": true, "item": ""}
msg: this module requires key=value arguments (['src=../../frontEnd/*', 'private_key=/home/dario/.vagrant.d/insecure_private_key', 'dest_port=22', 'recursive=yes', 'dest={{lookup(env,', 'USER)}}@10.0.46.164:/var/www/nginx', 'delete=yes', 'archive=yes', 'rsync_path=sudo rsync'])

If I change ansible_ssh_user, hardcoding it with my user, it works fine... but """{{lookup(env,', 'USER)}}""" seems really weird: it almost looks like there would be some extra quotes around my lookup, but I reckon that would trigger an error much earlier

Has anyone seen something like this?

Thanks

[Brian Coca]

i don't think the connection module templates that value, also USER would already be the default if you don't specify anything.

[Dario Bertini]

You're right, anyhow this is a regression introduced with ansible 1.5.0

[Michael DeHaan]

"You're right, anyhow this is a regression introduced with ansible 1.5.0"

(A) I don't think we can say any possible behavior where something strange used to work and doesn't is a regression, unless that behavior was either documented or had a unit test for it.

(B) This variable really ought to be templated at an earlier level anyway.

On Fri, Apr 4, 2014 at 4:56 AM, Dario Bertini <berd...@gmail.com> wrote:

You're right, anyhow this is a regression introduced with ansible 1.5.0

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[Dario Bertini]

On Fri, Apr 4, 2014 at 5:13 PM, Michael DeHaan <mic...@ansible.com> wrote:
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> (B) This variable really ought to be templated at an earlier level anyway.
>

Agree, is there something I could to do force the templating early, or
is it something that can be done only inside ansible itself?

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[Michael DeHaan]

Not without modifying the source to fix the root cause of the problem.

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[Michael DeHaan]

BTW, please make sure there's a ticket filed for this.

Thanks!