the content option in module copy is dropped?

[Steve Kieu]

Hi just quick question - I noticed the latest documentation the feature to use a string content for the file content in copy module is no longer listed. Is it dropped in latest ansible?

I use it heavily for copying ssh key etc.. (encode b64 and decode back)  if it is dropped then it would be pretty daunting to me.

Kind regards

[Toshio Kuratomi]

We've talked about deprecating it because it seems like everything it
can do can be done by the template module instead. However, it hasn't
reached the point where we've taken any action to get rid of it yet.
As far as I can see, it is still documented here:
http://docs.ansible.com/ansible/copy_module.html

-Toshio

[Steve Kieu]

There is one use case.below.

So I have role base which is base of every other role. In that the defaul/main.yml I defined a users dict like:

users:

  jumbo:

    name: "jumbo"

    sshcopykey: 'string'

The code of generate user etc is in role base.

I want in the sub role if it wants to overrides the users to generate freely. So 

If the sshcopykey is a file path or template path it is not work unless I have to add these templates / file into role base folder structure (the files/ or templates/ ) If I added in subrole it does not work as code to implement it in role base it does not search for the sub role template path.

So I do not want to put in role base because it is technically not belong to role base at all.

If I changes to use the content in copy I can achieve that cleanly. At least for now.

Thanks