you are writing your conditionals wrong, vars don't need {{}} and strings
need quoting:
when: was == 'jboss'
On Wed, Mar 16, 2016 at 8:23 PM, NEW HOMIE <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hello there~
> Is this possible using when conditional with variables?
>
> For instance, I use two kind of was (Jboss, Weblogic)
>
> I create for checking process id some yml files like under line
>
> *check.yml*
> - shell: ps -ef | grep '{{ nodename }}' | grep XX | awk {'print $2'}
> register: pid
> ignore_errors: True
> when: {{ was }} == jboss
>
> - shell: /usr/ucb/ps -auxwww | grep '{{ nodename }}' | grep XX | awk
> {'print $2'}
> register: pid
> ignore_errors: True
> when: {{ was }} == weblogic
>
>
> and then, put this yml file in main.yml
>
> *main.yml*
> - include: check.yml
> tags: check
>
> now I would execute this command
>
> # ansible-playbook playbook -i inventory -t check -e
> component=somecomponent -e nodename=somenodename -e was=jboss
>
>
> however It gives me under error message?
> {"failed": true, "reason": "ERROR! Syntax Error while loading YAML.
> The error appears to have been in 'check.yml': line 5, column 19, but
> maybe elsewhere in the file depending on the exact syntax problem.
> The offending line appears to be: ignore_errors: True\n when: {{ was }}
> == jboss^ here
> We could be wrong, but this one looks like it might be an issue with
> missing quotes.
> Always quote template expression brackets when they start a value. For
> instance: with_items: - {{ foo }} Should be written as: with_items: - \"{{
> foo }}\""}
>
>
> What's problem in my check.yml??
>
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