can we not use 2 var_files in a playbook

[Narmada Karthika]

I am getting error saying  I am using 2 var_files.

ERROR! failed at splitting arguments, either an unbalanced jinja2 block or quotes:

I also tried using include_vars which gave me same error, the values in these 2 files need to be replace at diff locations at play book

some one please suggest what is the best way for this

 name: post call to get servergroup

  hosts: localhost

  become: true

  gather_facts: no

  tasks:

    - name: set the facts per host

      set_fact:

        access_token: "{{ hostvars.localhost.output.stdout }}" # this is the output of the above play

    - name: Make a post call to get server details

      shell: |

        cd /var/output/

        curl --location --request GET "{{ serverlist }}" \--header 'Authorization: Bearer "{{ access_token }}" > /var/output/"{{ item }}".json

        jq -r '.[]|.serverData[].servers[]' "{{ item }}".json > /home/deploy-user/ansible/group_vars/"{{ item }}".yml

      # item and server list from one file and

register: data

    - debug: msg="data , {{ repo }}" # this need to replaced from one var file

      loop:

        - dev

        - uat

        - stg2

[Dick Visser]

On Fri, 19 May 2023 at 07:21, Narmada Karthika <chitt...@gmail.com> wrote:

> I am getting error saying I am using 2 var_files.

What is that error exactly?

> ERROR! failed at splitting arguments, either an unbalanced jinja2 block or quotes:

This is another error then?

> I also tried using include_vars which gave me same error, the values in these 2 files need to be replace at diff locations at play book
> some one please suggest what is the best way for this
> name: post call to get servergroup
> hosts: localhost
> become: true
> gather_facts: no
> tasks:
> - name: set the facts per host
> set_fact:
> access_token: "{{ hostvars.localhost.output.stdout }}" # this is the output of the above play
> - name: Make a post call to get server details
> shell: |
> cd /var/output/
> curl --location --request GET "{{ serverlist }}" \--header 'Authorization: Bearer "{{ access_token }}" > /var/output/"{{ item }}".json
> jq -r '.[]|.serverData[].servers[]' "{{ item }}".json > /home/deploy-user/ansible/group_vars/"{{ item }}".yml
> # item and server list from one file and

Instead of having ansible execute several shell commands piped
together, you should use native modules, like
https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/collections/ansible/builtin/uri_module.html,
register the result, and then operate/make decisions based on that.

> register: data
> - debug: msg="data , {{ repo }}" # this need to replaced from one var file
> loop:
> - dev
> - uat
> - stg2

"replaced from" is unclear - you usually replace something with
something, or by something.
Rather than guessing what you might mean, please try to be more clear.

[Todd Lewis]

Your problem is overquoting. The in-line shell script is already in a kind of quotes, so you don't have to quote again your jinja expressions' mustaches. All those double-quotes remain in the fully templated shell script.

Or it might be that the opening single quote of your --header value is never closed.

Or both of those things.

[Rowe, Walter P. (Fed)]

Your curl command places the output in /var/output/{{ item }}.json.

Your jq command reads the output from {{ item }}.json which is not /var/output/{{ item }}.json.

Walter
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[Narmada Karthika]

thank you all for your findings and recommendations

In the same playbook I would like to explain one more scenario , I am using set_facts to use above playbook output as input in the playbook, and I have variables.yml 

It has to go through loop and get the server details from each environment, will my below playbook work

my variables.yml file

# Environment and os as input to pull all servers out of this

serverlist: "https://test-dev.test.com/testapi/test/server?environment={{ item }}&os=linux" +#

# item should be replaced with the item from the loop and pass it to below playbook

vars_files:

    - "variables.yml"

  tasks:

    - name: set the facts per host

      set_fact:

        access_token: "{{ hostvars.localhost.output.stdout }}" # this is the output of the above play

    - name: Make a post call to get server details

      shell: |

        cd /var/output/

        curl --location --request GET {{ serverlist }} \--header Authorization: Bearer {{ access_token }} > /var/output/servers1.json

jq -r '.[]|.serverData[].servers[]' servers1.json > /home/deploy-user/ansible/group_vars/servers1.yml

      register: data

    - debug: msg="data , {{ serverlist }}" # this need to replaced from one var file

      loop:

        - dev

        - uat

        - stg2

[Todd Lewis]

> will my below playbook work

I don't think so.

1. Your serverlist is a string with "{{ item }}" in it, but you're using it in a shell module invocation with no loops, i.e. where "item" isn't defined.

2. In your shell script, your jq output is being directed in group_vars/server1.yml with replacement. Once you fix issue #1 and start looping, you'll find servers1.yml contains the data only for the last iteration.

I'm puzzled by your placement of the serverlist definition in a separate file rather than in a vars: section in the playbook, or even hard-coded directly in the embedded shell script. Nor is it clear to me what you expect the final debug step to show you. I mean, we know it will look like this:

TASK [unnamed debug loop] ******************************************************
ok: [localhost] => (item=dev) => {
    "msg": "data , https://test-dev.test.com/testapi/test/server?environment=dev&os=linux"
}
ok: [localhost] => (item=uat) => {
    "msg": "data , https://test-dev.test.com/testapi/test/server?environment=uat&os=linux"
}
ok: [localhost] => (item=stg2) => {
    "msg": "data , https://test-dev.test.com/testapi/test/server?environment=stg2&os=linux"
}

but what's the point?

[Narmada Karthika]

Thankyou for taking time and looking into it..

you made a valid questions, 

1. I am trying this approach so that I can pass {item} as jenkins parameters. when dev fro item group is given it should print all servers from that env.

2.  group_vars/server1.yml  I am trying to get the first part working so I did not specify the output file here. ( will make a note next time not to miss it)

also can you please elaborate more here "Your serverlist is a string with "{{ item }}" in it, but you're using it in a shell module invocation with no loops, i.e. where "item" isn't defined." 

I mean best possibilities to fulfill my need.