I know this is 2 year old thread, but I bumped into this today and was
able to create a dictionary. Something like this:
/tmp $ cat example.yml
- hosts: 127.0.0.1
vars:
app_servers: 5
ipaddress_base: "192.168.0"
rmi_portbase: 10000
host_info: |
{% set res = [] -%}
{%- for number in range(1,app_servers + 1) -%}
{% set ignored = res.extend([{
'hostname': 'app' + number|string,
'ipaddress': ipaddress_base + '.' + number|string,
'rmi_port': rmi_portbase|int + ( number * 10)
}]) -%}
{%- endfor %}
{{ res }}
tasks:
- debug: var=host_info
/tmp $ ansible-playbook example.yml
[WARNING]: provided hosts list is empty, only localhost is available
PLAY [127.0.0.1]
***************************************************************
TASK [setup]
*******************************************************************
ok: [127.0.0.1]
TASK [debug]
*******************************************************************
ok: [127.0.0.1] => {
"host_info": [
{
"hostname": "app1",
"ipaddress": "192.168.0.1",
"rmi_port": 10010
},
{
"hostname": "app2",
"ipaddress": "192.168.0.2",
"rmi_port": 10020
},
{
"hostname": "app3",
"ipaddress": "192.168.0.3",
"rmi_port": 10030
},
{
"hostname": "app4",
"ipaddress": "192.168.0.4",
"rmi_port": 10040
},
{
"hostname": "app5",
"ipaddress": "192.168.0.5",
"rmi_port": 10050
}
]
}
PLAY RECAP
*********************************************************************
127.0.0.1 : ok=2 changed=0 unreachable=0 failed=0
On Friday, April 10, 2015 at 4:46:45 AM UTC+5:30, Brian Coca wrote:
>
> The answer is that neither returns what you think it does, both return
> a string, the issue is that with some fields they expect a string or
> array or array in string (which then they split with , to get a real
> array). Fields that expect dicts do not do any magic nor expect
> strings at any point.
>
>
> --
> Brian Coca
>
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