Programmatic access to variables defined inside a role not working

[edroz...@gmail.com]

Hello,

I need to programmatically access variables defined with a role ( via myrole/vars/main.yaml)

I tried using the trick described in the Ansible FAQ -  {{ hostvars[ inventory_hostname ][ myvar ] }} but it appears variables defined within the role are not included in this hostvars namespace.

Would love to figure out a way to access my role variables programmatically.

Thanks in advance,

--Ed

[edroz...@gmail.com]

I noticed there is a difference in how Ansible 1.5.5 handles this vs. Ansible 1.6 Git May 1, 2014.

Ansible 1.6 Git is now including role variables in the hostvars scope. I have one remaining issue

in 1.6 which is if the variable being referenced itself references another variable, the ultimate value

is not being properly assembled.

slack_mir:          'rsync://slackware.cs.utah.edu'

slack_dir:          'slackware/slackware64-{{ slack_ver }}'

slack_url:          '{{ slack_mir }}/{{ slack_dir }}'

alpine_sb_url:      '{{ slack_url }}/source/n/alpine'

pkg:                 'alpine'

When I reference as below, the final variable is not being properly assembled

as seen in the Ansible 1.6 error message below.

 {{ hostvars[inventory_hostname][pkg + '_sb_url'] }}

Ansible 1.5.5

==========

fatal: [work1] => One or more undefined variables: 'dict object' has no attribute 'alpine_sb_url'

FATAL: all hosts have already failed -- aborting

Ansible 1.6 GIT as of May 1, 2014

==========================

failed: [work1] => {"changed": true, "cmd": ["rsync", "-r", "{{slack_url}}/source/n/alpine/", "/usr/local/src/alpine"], "delta": "0:00:00.127109", "end": "2014-05-01 10:39:18.996855", "item": "", "rc": 23, "start": "2014-05-01 10:39:18.869746"}

stderr: rsync: change_dir "/root//{{slack_url}}/source/n/alpine" failed: No such file or directory (2)

rsync error: some files/attrs were not transferred (see previous errors) (code 23) at main.c(1165) [sender=3.1.0]

FATAL: all hosts have already failed -- aborting

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[Michael DeHaan]

Does your task have an explicit name in the playbook?

(Can we see the playbook?)

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