Possible bug in split_args

[Gabriele Favalessa]

Hi all,

I'm wondering if this is the intended behavior of split_args (ansible 1.9.0.1):

>>> from ansible.module_utils.splitter import split_args                                                                       

>>> split_args('content="  a  b"')                                                                                             

[u'content="  a  b"']

>>> split_args('content="  a\n  b"')                                                                                           

[u'content="  a\nb"']

i.e. if stripping the spaces after the new line is how split_args is supposed to work.

Because spaces are stripped, this is not working for me:

- name: Create YAML from some variable

  copy: content={{ some_variable | to_nice_yaml }} dest=/some/file

since the indentation of the YAML is broken once the spaces are removed.

BTW my original problem was encrypting a YAML configuration file (not an ansible playbook, just a configuration file for my application that I wanted to store encrypted before copying it to the deployment server.) To the best of my understanding it's not possible to put a file in the vault, so I stored the YAML in an encrypted vars file instead. But then I stumbled into the reported bug, preventing me to recreate a valid human readable YAML file from the variable. My current solution is to write {{ some_variable | to_json }} exploiting the fact that JSON is also valid YAML but indentation is not significative at the expense of some readability.

Gabriele

[James Cammarata]

Hi Gabrielle, did this happen prior to 1.9.0.1?

James Cammarata

Director, Ansible Core Engineering

github: jimi-c

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[Gabriele Favalessa]

On Monday, April 6, 2015 at 10:51:31 PM UTC+2, James Cammarata wrote:

Hi Gabrielle, did this happen prior to 1.9.0.1?

I quickly checked 1.8 which behaves like 1.9.0.1 and 1.7 which behaves as I would expect:

>>> import ansible

>>> ansible.__version__

'1.7'

>>> from ansible.module_utils.splitter import split_args 

>>> split_args('content="  a\n  b"')  

[u'content="  a\n  b"']

i.e. the spaces before 'b' are not removed.

Gabriele