Hi Gabrielle, did this happen prior to 1.9.0.1? James Cammarata Director, Ansible Core Engineering github: jimi-c
On Sun, Apr 5, 2015 at 10:22 AM, Gabriele Favalessa <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi all, > > I'm wondering if this is the intended behavior of split_args (ansible > 1.9.0.1): > > >>> from ansible.module_utils.splitter import split_args > > >>> split_args('content=" a b"') > > [u'content=" a b"'] > >>> split_args('content=" a\n b"') > > [u'content=" a\nb"'] > > i.e. if stripping the spaces after the new line is how split_args is > supposed to work. > > Because spaces are stripped, this is not working for me: > > - name: Create YAML from some variable > copy: content={{ some_variable | to_nice_yaml }} dest=/some/file > > since the indentation of the YAML is broken once the spaces are removed. > > BTW my original problem was encrypting a YAML configuration file (not an > ansible playbook, just a configuration file for my application that I > wanted to store encrypted before copying it to the deployment server.) To > the best of my understanding it's not possible to put a file in the vault, > so I stored the YAML in an encrypted vars file instead. But then I stumbled > into the reported bug, preventing me to recreate a valid human readable > YAML file from the variable. My current solution is to write {{ > some_variable | to_json }} exploiting the fact that JSON is also valid YAML > but indentation is not significative at the expense of some readability. > > Gabriele > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Ansible Project" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/ansible-project/0143ef02-b438-43e8-96be-77ea8a4a2c17%40googlegroups.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/ansible-project/0143ef02-b438-43e8-96be-77ea8a4a2c17%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ansible Project" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/ansible-project/CAMFyvFjZp54kBkVA7_3XBv6uUpxtEv3te%3DPXzNEaqKfZHHJ4RA%40mail.gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
