when condition not being evaluated with include statement

[Imran Khan]

I have a tikitaka3.yml (main yml file) and a tikitaka3a.yml (playbook to be included) . When I prompt the user for a variable and then in the tasks section when I call it, like so:

    ---

    - hosts: all

    vars:

      khan:

    # contents: "{{ lookup('file', '/home/imran/Desktop/tobefetched/file1.txt') }}"

    vars_prompt:

     - name: targetenv

       prompt: 1.)EPC 2.)CLIENTS 3)TESTERS

       private: False

       default: "1"

    gather_facts: no

    tasks:

    - name: Inlude playbook tikitaka3a

    include: /home/khan/Desktop/playbooks/tikitaka3a.yml target=umar

    when: targetenv.stdout|int < 2  #this statement has no effect

    #when: targetenv == 1  #Neither does this statement

    #when: targetenc == "1"  #and neither does this statement have affect

  

    #- name: stuff n stuff # This task will give an error if not commented 

    #  debug: var=targetenv.stdout

The include statement always comes into affect, without the when condition ever being evaluated

[Brian Coca]

The when does not affect the include itself, it gets added to all tasks included.​  

[Michael DeHaan]

Take a look at the docs of the "group_by" module if you want some more elegant output based on dynamic criteria.

On Mon, Aug 18, 2014 at 7:44 AM, Brian Coca <bria...@gmail.com> wrote:

The when does not affect the include itself, it gets added to all tasks included.​  

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[Imran Khan]

Then what can I do to achieve the functionality that I require?

[Imran Khan]

Basically I want to run my secondary playbook on a specific number of hosts in a specific group (I have shown just one example of a group here i.e. umar, I intend on having three groups) using var_prompts, the group is going to be specified in my main file whereas the logic for particular host selection will reside in each of the 3 secondary playbooks for example the user wants to modify the first 3 nodes (from a total of 15) in the group named umar

[Michael DeHaan]

The group_by module?

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[Imran Khan]

Well, I think I will just make a predefined number of groups such as EPC1, EPC2 and EPC4 (each containing 1,2 or 4 EPCs) , similarly do the same for CLIENTS and SERVERS and tell the user to modify the hosts at the start of a play book such as 

    - hosts: SERVER1:EPC2:CLIENTS4

This is very inefficient, but I don't know what to do. Can the group-by module do something similar without having to do something that is so inefficient