awx surveys and nested yaml variables don't appear to work as expected

[Brandon Jozsa]

Hey everyone. I have some questions about how AWX handles nested yaml values for things like surveys.

I have a nested yaml declaration in previous playbook for group_vars, and they look like this:

# OS API User Login Information:

auth:

  os_auth_url: "http://openstack.domain.io5:5000"

  os_username: "username"

# OS Project Details:

project:

  os_project: "admin"

  os_region_name: "RegionOne"

  os_domain_name: "Default"

And so on. This is definitely valid syntax, and when the variables are used in the playbook, they're translated like the following:

- name: creating new instances and attaching to declared networks

  os_server:

       state: present

       auth:

         auth_url: "{{ auth.os_auth_url }}"

         username: "{{ auth.os_username }}"

         password: "{{ os_password }}"

         project_name: "{{ project.os_project }}"

       name: "{{ instance.os_hostname }}"

       image: "{{ instance.os_image_id }}"

       key_name: "{{ instance.os_key_name }}"

       timeout: 200

       flavor: "{{ instance.os_flavor_id }}"

       network: "{{ network.os_network_id }}"

       meta:

         hostname: "{{ meta.os_hostname }}"

         group: "{{ meta.os_group }}"

This works perfectly fine (as expected) when running manually. However, I'm starting to PoC AWX for our use, before deciding to purchase a Tower support contract. Unfortunately, when trying to use these same variables in surveys, I receive an error that states "Please remove the illegal character from the survey question variable name". This occurs because AWX is not interpreting the "." as a valid element.

Can someone tell me if there's a work around, or do I need to redraft my playbooks (I would really like to avoid this if possible).

Thanks for the help/guidance in advance!

Brandon (IRC: v1k0d3n)