How to remove temp dir even in case of an error?

[Cev Ing]

In Bash I use mktemp together with trap to always remove the temp dir.

When I use the tempfile module, how do I remove the tempfile, in case of an error, which terminates the playbook run?

[Ricardo Carrillo Cruz]

You could register the output of tempfile in a variable and use the block rescue feature.

Something like:

  connection: local

  tasks:

    - block:

        - tempfile:

            state: directory

          register: tempfile_out

        - command: /bin/false

      rescue:

        - debug: msg="Yikes, something broke, cleaning up tmp dir {{ tempfile_out.path }}"

        - file:

            name: "{{ tempfile_out.path }}"

            state: absent