if-elseif-if

[Ali Khawaja]

i am trying to set a variable based on the value of a variable in the config file but unable to do so. 

here's my config file:

sql_ver: "2012" # available sql versions are: 2008 | 2012 | 2014 | 2016

sp_ver: "2010" # available sp versions are: 2007 | 2010 | 2013 | 2016

sp2k10: en_sharepoint_server_2010_with_service_pack_2_x64_dvd_4178583.iso

sp2k13: en_sharepoint_server_2013_with_sp1_x64_dvd_3823428.iso

sp2k16: en_sharepoint_server_2016_x64_dvd_8419458-003.iso

sql2k12: en_sql_server_2012_standard_edition_with_service_pack_3_x64_dvd_7286878.iso

sql2k14: en_sql_server_2014_standard_edition_with_service_pack_2_x64_dvd_8961564

sql2k16: en_sql_server_2016_standard_with_service_pack_1_x64_dvd_9540929

and my ansible file is:

- name: Software Version Selection

hosts: localhost

vars_files:

- testcfg.yml

gather_facts: false

tasks:

- debug:

msg: "{{sp_ver}}"

- set_fact:

sp : "{{sp2k10}}"

when: "{{sp_ver}} == 2010"

sp : "{{sp2k13}}"

when: "{{sp_ver}} == 2013"

sp : "{{sp2k16}}"

when: "{{sp_ver}} is match(2016)"

- debug:

msg: "{{sp}}"

i have tried many things:  "{{sp_ver}} == 2010" , "{{sp_ver}}" == 2010, "{{sp_ver}} is match(2016)"  but nothing worked.  i dont know why there is a syntax error for this:  "{{sp_ver}}" is match(2016)

basically what is want is for the selected sp_ver, the proper variable gets selected.

Thanks in advance

Ali

[Sosys]

my understanding is that, on the "when" statement, you dont need to specify " {{ or }} "

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[Brian Coca]

try

when: sp_ver|int == 2010

or

when: sp_ver == "2010"

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Brian Coca

[Edmund Cheng]

As the guys have mentioned, try removing the {{}}, variables in the when condition is implicit i think..

[Ali Khawaja]

I tried all the suggestions but it did not work. 

 

With the following in my config file:

sp_ver: 2016

and with following code:

sp = ‘abc’

When: sp_ver | int == 2016

 

sp = ‘def’

When: sp_ver  == “2016”

 

Both variations did not work.  Jordan mentioned on the irc channel a nice solution which was to create dictionary item and then use sp_ver as a lookup which worked very nicely.  But I am really interested for learning purposes why the above do not work.

 

Thanks again. 

 

 

 

 

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