When Or statement

[colli...@gmail.com]

In an ansible play, is "or" not supported with conditional statements? I have a task that is searching a variable for 2 values. The when statements work alone, but with "or" it runs but doesn't do what I am expecting. Here is the task, is my syntax wrong or is it just not supported? - 

    - name: Apply policy to the interfaces

      cisco.ios.ios_config:

        parents: interface {{ item.key }}

        lines:

          - device-tracking attach-policy IPDT_POLICY

      loop: "{{ netbrain_interface_attributes|dict2items }}"

      when: >

        item.key is not search("Port")

        or item.key is not search("Vlan")

[Stefan Hornburg (Racke)]

Maybe you need ( ) around both conditions, but you can also use (untested)

item.key is not regex("(Port|Vlan)")

Regards
Racke

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[J C]

I apologize I did miss a line in my task when I copied.  So I used the (Port|Vlan).  Which again works as a single statement.  Also tried putting the statements in ()

    - name: Apply policy to the interfaces

      cisco.ios.ios_config:

        parents: interface {{ item.key }}

        lines:

          - device-tracking attach-policy IPDT_POLICY

      loop: "{{ netbrain_interface_attributes|dict2items }}"

      when: >

        item.key is not regex("(Port|Vlan)")

        or item.key not in po_ints

    - name: Apply policy to the interfaces

      cisco.ios.ios_config:

        parents: interface {{ item.key }}

        lines:

          - device-tracking attach-policy IPDT_POLICY

      loop: "{{ netbrain_interface_attributes|dict2items }}"

      when: >

        (item.key is not regex("(Port|Vlan)"))

        or (item.key not in po_ints)

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[J C]

Hello, 

Just thought I would uypdate.  I was not able to find the correct syntax for an or in a when statement.   What I end up doing, and I am sure there is a better way to do it, was create separate lists then adding them together.

    - name: Create a list without Gigabit interfaces

      set_fact:

        exclude1: "{{ ex | reject('search', 'Giga') | list }}"

    - name: Create a list of GigabitEthernet0/0

      set_fact:

        exclude2: "{{ ex | select('search', 'GigabitEthernet0/0') | list }}"

    - name: Gather the Port Channel Summary

      ansible.netcommon.cli_parse:

        command: "show etherchannel summary"

        parser:

          name: ansible.netcommon.pyats

        set_fact: eth_sum

    - name: Get the PO Channel Interfaces

      set_fact:

        po_ints: "{{ eth_sum.interfaces|json_query(query)|

                    flatten }}"

        cacheable: yes

      vars:

        query: '*.port_channel.port_channel_member_intfs'

    - name: Create one list to be used in a future play

      set_fact:

        exclude_interfaces: "{{ exclude1 + exclude2 + po_ints }}"

        cacheable: yes

[James Lagermann]

Have you tried to put the line in double quotes?  I'm not sure if it's always required, however, some of my 'or' statements will not work without them so I just put all of them in double quotes.

      when:  "(item.key is not regex("(Port|Vlan)")) or (item.key not in po_ints)"

[Stefan Hornburg (Racke)]

On 12/1/20 5:17 PM, James Lagermann wrote:
> Have you tried to put the line in double quotes?  I'm not sure if it's always required, however, some of my 'or'
> statements will not work without them so I just put all of them in double quotes.
>
>       when:  "(item.key is not regex("(Port|Vlan)")) or (item.key not in po_ints)"

That might work, but in this case you need to use single quotes for the regex:

when: "(item.key is not regex('(Port|Vlan)')) or (item.key not in po_ints)"

Regards
Racke

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