I see, that worked fine, thanks.
On Wednesday, March 26, 2014 1:29:21 PM UTC, Matt Martz wrote:
>
> I think what you want, is to use the 'default' filter.
>
> Such as:
>
> template: src={{ item.name }}.j2 dest="/etc/config/{{
> item['target_name']|default(item.name) }}"
> with_items: configs
>
> I also changed target_name to not use dot notation, as that can sometimes
> still create issues with the default filter. In the above case, if item
> does not have a 'target_name' key, it will default to 'item.name'.
> --
> Matt Martz
> ma...@sivel.net <javascript:>
>
> On March 26, 2014 at 5:41:13 AM, Michael Mahemoff
> (mic...@mahemoff.com<javascript:>)
> wrote:
>
> I thought of a workaround, but also doesn't work:
>
> - set_fact: item.target_name = item.name
> when: item.target_name is not defined
> with_items: configs
>
> This way I could just always use item.target_name. It runs on the correct
> items, but seems that set_fact doesn't work as I expected for an item dict,
> as item.target_name is still undefined on the next task.
>
> On Wednesday, March 26, 2014 10:24:24 AM UTC, Michael Mahemoff wrote:
>>
>> I have a line like this, where "configs" variable is defined as a list of
>> dicts/hashes:
>>
>> template: src={{ item.name }}.j2 dest="/etc/config/{{ item.target_name|
>> item.name }}"
>> with_items: configs
>>
>> It basically allows the generated filename to be customised, but fall
>> back to the template name if none is provided. The problem is it doesn't
>> work, the generated filename is literally {{ item.target_name|item.name}}.
>> But it works fine without the default syntax (ie just {{
>> item.name }}). Is that expected behaviour and is there any workaround?
>>
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