not revision_no works because of you just do Enter it will have empty
string and empty string is False. It's matter of preference but I would
test for that.
You can always do debug to see true value:
tasks:
- debug: msg={{revision_no}}
On Saturday, May 10, 2014 1:58:24 AM UTC+2, Michael DeHaan wrote:
>
> Seems like your variable is defined then, just False.
>
>
>
>
> On Wed, May 7, 2014 at 4:34 PM, Samnang Sen <samna...@gmail.com<javascript:>
> > wrote:
>
>> This does not work for me. Garrett's example does ...
>>
>>
>> On Monday, May 5, 2014 11:51:29 PM UTC-4, Michael DeHaan wrote:
>>
>>> You can say this specifically:
>>>
>>> when: revision_no is not defined
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On Mon, May 5, 2014 at 1:19 PM, Garrett Plasky <gpl...@evernote.com>wrote:
>>>
>>>> There may be a better way to do this but I solved the problem by having
>>>> a separate task initially that verifies the variable is set and fails the
>>>> play if not (via the fail module).
>>>>
>>>> - name: Checking for required variables
>>>> fail: msg="Playbook execution failed - 'revision_no' is required!"
>>>> when: not revision_no
>>>>
>>>> If you don't want the play to outright fail, you could replace the fail
>>>> module with something like debug.
>>>>
>>>> On Monday, May 5, 2014 7:58:27 AM UTC-7, Samnang Sen wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> That last line is supposed to read "revision_no is defined"
>>>>>
>>>>> On Monday, May 5, 2014 10:53:54 AM UTC-4, Samnang Sen wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Let's say I ask for a revision_no from the user. If the user doesn't
>>>>>> input a value, I would like to display a custom message. Right now
>>>>>> ansible
>>>>>> shows a bunch of "skipping" message, but I know my users would want to
>>>>>> know
>>>>>> why it skipped.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> - hosts: webservers
>>>>>> user: deployment
>>>>>> # serial: 1
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> vars_prompt:
>>>>>> - name: "revision_no"
>>>>>> prompt: "Input revision number"
>>>>>> private: no
>>>>>>
>>>>>> vars_files:
>>>>>> - "group_vars/deploy_list"
>>>>>>
>>>>>> roles:
>>>>>> - { role: web, when: revision_no is not defined }
>>>>>>
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