Defining vars in a file and looping over them

[Wayne Pascoe]

Hi all,

I'm trying to work with vars in a vars file inside a role, and I'm unable to make it work. I'm working from http://docs.ansible.com/ansible/playbooks_loops.html#standard-loops. Any pointers on what I'm doing wrong would be much appreciated.

I'm using 2.1.0 from Git on Debian.


If I have the following task in my role, it works as expected:

---
- name: Add groups
  group: name={{ item.name }} gid={{ item.gid }} state=present
  with_items:
    - { name: 'g1', gid: '1010' }
    - { name: 'g2', gid: '1011' }

However, if I try and use the vars in roles/rolename/vars/mail.yml and modify my role, I get the following error:

fatal: [myhost]: FAILED! => {"failed": true, "msg": "'unicode object' has no attribute 'gid'"}

If I remove the gid={{{ item.gid }} part of my task, then the message changes to 

fatal: [myhost]: FAILED! => {"failed": true, "msg": "'unicode object' has no attribute 'name'"}

tasks/groups.yml

---
- name: Add groups
  group: name={{ item.name }} gid={{ item.gid }} state=present
  with_items: "{{groups}}"

vars/main.yml

groups:
    - { name: 'g1', gid: '1010' }
    - { name: 'g2', gid: '1011' }

Thanks!

[Wayne Pascoe]

Ah - that was simple... groups appears to be a reserved name. Changing to unixgroups works a treat.
Sorry for the noise...