Where are my inventory variables in a dump hostvars,

[Larry Fast]

When I do a dump of hostvars I get a different result than when I dump hostvars[hostname].  Things like group_names, inventory_hostname and variables defined in the inventory are not shown in a dump of hostvars.  Am I imagining things?

By 'dump' I mean a jinja2 template with the following code

{{ hostvars | to_nice_json }}  - does not include group_names, inventory_name, etc
{{ hostvars['my_hostname'] | to_nice_json }} - does include group_names, etc

[Brian Coca]

hostvars is not a variable, its an object that pretends to be variable
but lazily loads things, so only the 2nd form is guaranteed to have
all the vars.


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Brian Coca

[Brian Coca]

or you can :

{
"hostvars": {
{% for key in groups["all"] %}
"{{key}}": {{ hostvars[key] |to_nice_json }}{% if not loop.last %},{% endif %}
{% endfor %}

}


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Brian Coca

[Larry Fast]

Thanks Brian,

I was hoping someone would show me "if not loop.last" :)