error: with_dict expects a dict

[Paul Angus]

I have this in my group_vars:

hotfixes-6_2_0: 

  XS62ESP1003: 

    dl_file: XS62ESP1003.zip

    dl_path: "http://downloadns.citrix.com.edgesuite.net/akdlm/9031/"

  XS62ESP1005: 

    dl_file: XS62E005.zip

    dl_path: "http://downloadns.citrix.com.edgesuite.net/akdlm/8197/"

  XS62ESP1009: 

    dl_file: XS62E009.zip

    dl_path: "http://downloadns.citrix.com.edgesuite.net/akdlm/8452/"

My play says:

---

- name: download xenserver hotfixes

  get_url: url="{{ item.value.dl_file }}{{ item.value.dl_path }}" dest="/tmp/{{ item.value.dl_path }}" mode=0440 force=no

  with_dict: hotfixes-6_2_0

but I get an error:

with_dict expects a dict

but it looks identical to the syntax in the example in the documentation http://docs.ansible.com/playbooks_loops.html#looping-over-hashes

what have I missed?

Many thanks

Paul Angus.

@cloudyangus

http://docs.ansible.com/playbooks_loops.html#looping-over-hashes:

---
users:
  alice:
    name: Alice Appleworth
    telephone: 123-456-7890
  bob:
    name: Bob Bananarama
    telephone: 987-654-3210

And you want to print every user’s name and phone number. You can loop through the elements of a hash using with_dict like this:

tasks:
  - name: Print phone records
    debug: msg="User {{ item.key }} is {{ item.value.name }} ({{ item.value.telephone }})"
    with_dict: users

[Brian Coca]

Can you rename hotfixes to avoid the dash?(-) and try again?