confused about | mandatory

[Barry Kaplan]

What is the scope to which |mandatory applies? It seems that debug is not one of them:

  vars:
    vi_tenant: "{{ tenant | mandatory }}"
    vi_plants: "{{ plants | mandatory }}"


    status: |
      Provisioning tenant security:
      env          {{env}}
      tenant       {{vi_tenant}}
      plants       {{vi_plants}}


  tasks:
    - debug: var=status.split('\n')

TASK: [debug var=status.split('\n')] ******************************************
ok: [localhost] => {
    "var": {
        "status.split('\\n')": [
            "Provisioning tenant security:",
            "env          staging",
            "tenant       tenantA",
            "plants       {{ plants | mandatory }}"
        ]
    }
}

Why doesn't the |mandatory fail in this case?. On top of that I am using 'error_on_undefined_vars = True'

But that also seems to have no effect here as well.

[Brian Coca]

mandatory is only needed if error_on_undefined_vars=False (which was
the default long ago)

what version of ansible? os? python?


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Brian Coca

[Barry Kaplan]

os: ubuntu 14.04

ansible 1.9.2-rc2 (but maybe 1.9.2-rc1)

python: 2.7.63

[Brian Coca]

So I had not used the feature in a while, it seems that it is currently broken:

https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/10136



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Brian Coca