thank you for the explanation
On Wednesday, January 13, 2016 at 9:38:39 AM UTC-8, tkuratomi wrote:
>
> In 1.9.4, you'll need to use
> - { dest: "/boot/loader.conf", regexp: "^vmm_load", line:
> vmm_load=\\\"YES\\\", state: "present", backup: "no", create: "yes" }
>
> (three backslashes).
>
> In 2.0 we fixed this so that \" will work correctly there.
>
> Quoting and escaping is tricky inside of the ansible code because we
> use yaml to parse the playbook and then jinja2 to substitute
> variables. We try to abstract that away but sometimes it leaks out
> and you end up having to escape for both of the parsers. Hopefully we
> fixed most of those in 2.0.
>
> -Toshio
>
> On Tue, Jan 12, 2016 at 12:51 PM, Joel Parker <[email protected]
> <javascript:>> wrote:
> > Any thoughts?
> >
> > On Sunday, January 10, 2016 at 10:45:16 PM UTC-8, Joel Parker wrote:
> >>
> >> I know this has been a bug in the recent past, but I'm running into
> this
> >> with Ansible 1.9.4 on FreeBSD.
> >>
> >> - name: update loader.conf
> >> lineinfile: dest={{ item.dest }} regexp={{ item.regexp }} line={{
> >> item.line}} state={{ item.state }} backup={{ item.backup }} create={{
> >> item.create }}
> >> with_items:
> >> - { dest: "/boot/loader.conf", regexp: "^vmm_load", line:
> >> "vmm_load=\"YES\"", state: "present", backup: "no", create: "yes" }
> >>
> >>
> >> Obviously I'm wanting the result to be:
> >> vmm_load="YES"
> >>
> >> However the actual result is:
> >> vmm_load=YES
> >>
> >>
> >> I do see that the following *does* work as expected (note removed
> quotes):
> >> - name: update loader.conf
> >> lineinfile: dest={{ item.dest }} regexp={{ item.regexp }} line={{
> >> item.line}} state={{ item.state }} backup={{ item.backup }} create={{
> >> item.create }}
> >> with_items:
> >> - { dest: "/boot/loader.conf", regexp: "^vmm_load", line:
> >> vmm_load=\"YES\", state: "present", backup: "no", create: "yes" }
> >>
> >>
> >> Am I incorrectly placing double quotes around everything in my dict, or
> is
> >> ansible failing to handle yaml like it should?
> >
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