Re: [ansible-project] Set variable to some value if undefined

[Tuyen Nguyen]

Thank you!  This worked perfectly!!

On Monday, May 13, 2019 at 9:49:29 AM UTC-4, Brian Coca wrote:
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> That is what the `default` filter is for: 
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> when: install_office|default('n') == 'y' 
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Re: [ansible-project] Set variable to some value if undefined

[Tuyen Nguyen]

Hi

Thanks.  I will try this.  I think this should work.

On Monday, May 13, 2019 at 9:49:29 AM UTC-4, Brian Coca wrote:
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> That is what the `default` filter is for: 
>
> when: install_office|default('n') == 'y' 
>
>
>
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> -- 
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Re: [ansible-project] Set variable to some value if undefined

[Brian Coca]

That is what the `default` filter is for:

when: install_office|default('n') == 'y'



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[ansible-project] Set variable to some value if undefined

[Tuyen Nguyen]

Hi

I have a playbook whereby I pass variables in such as install_office == 
'y', and I have tasks where it would only include_tasks for a task file to 
install Office (for example) when install_office == 'y'

eg.

  tasks:
  - name: Install Office
include_tasks: installoffice.yml
when: install_office == 'y'

And when I did not want Office installed, I needed to explicitly define a 
variable to install_office == 'n' (or anything else other than y would work 
as well), else Ansible tells me that install_office variable is not defined.

How can I set it so that if I do not define the variable, it will default 
to 'n'?  Right now I am using include_vars: to include a file defining each 
of the variables, and for each variable, I set it as 'y' or 'no' based on 
whether I want to include the task to my main playbook or not.  It would be 
more simpler if I can just define the ones I want to include as 'y' and let 
everything else that my playbook expects but is not defined to be set to 
'n'.

Please let me know what I can do?  Thanks!!

 

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