hostvars keys are not all hostnames?

[Josh Smift]

Given this playbook and inventory:

+$ cat hostvars.yml
---
- hosts: all
tasks: [ ]

- hosts: localhost
user: ansible
sudo: true
tasks:
- debug: msg={{ item.key }}
with_dict: hostvars

+$ cat hosts.ini
[tests]

673086-ialutil1
703165-ialprdproxy1

Ansible 1.7.2 gives this result:

+$ ap -t hostvars.yml -i ~/ansible/hosts.ini | grep msg
TASK: [debug msg={{ item.key }}]
**********************************************
"msg": "703165-ialprdproxy1"
"msg": "localhost"
"msg": "673086-ialutil1"

That is, the items in the dict are all hosts.

Ansible 1.9.3-1 gives this result:

+$ ap -t hostvars.yml -i ~/ansible/hosts.ini | grep msg
TASK: [debug msg={{ item.key }}]
**********************************************
"msg": "703165-ialprdproxy1"
"msg": "inventory_hostname"
"msg": "ansible_connection"
"msg": "groups"
"msg": "inventory_hostname_short"
"msg": "group_names"
"msg": "ansible_python_interpreter"
"msg": "localhost"
"msg": "673086-ialutil1"

Now there are a bunch of items in the dict that aren't hosts.

Is that expected? It bit us because we have a task that uses
'with_dict: hostvars' to do stuff with a couple of hostvars values for
each host, and that breaks if there are things in hostvars that aren't
hosts (e.g. there is no item.value.ansible_default_ipv4.address).

-Josh (j...@care.com)



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