I've been bitten by this too. In my case I had this:
- name: Create plain FTP groups
group: name={{ item.user }} gid={{ item.uid }} state={{
item.state|default('present') }}
with_items: "{{ customer_ftp_accounts[inventory_hostname] }}"
when: inventory_hostname in customer_ftp_account
I got this error:
TASK [customer_sftp : Create plain FTP groups]
*********************************
[DEPRECATION WARNING]: Skipping task due to undefined Error, in the future
this will be a fatal error.: 'dict object' has no attribute u'internal'.
This feature will be removed in a future release. Deprecation warnings can
be disabled by setting
deprecation_warnings=False in ansible.cfg.
skipping: [myserver]
It threw me off because it's purple and says "DEPRECATION WARNING", but
it's just a regular error really. It does what I want, in so much as it
skips hosts not in a particular list, but I could do without the error.
It's of course fixed like this:
- name: Create plain FTP groups
group: name={{ item.user }} gid={{ item.uid }} state={{
item.state|default('present') }}
with_items: "{{ customer_ftp_accounts[inventory_hostname]|default([]) }}"
I've put a comment in the file which describes it like this:
If using "with_items", the "when" is evaluated on each iteration of the
loop, and not when looking at the task as a whole. As such, trying to 'lock
out' the task with a "when" won't work, and instead we have to default the
"with_items" with an empty list if we don't want to run the loop at all.
Taking a 'step back' from this, it makes sense for Ansible to work this
way, but it can easily catch you out as a single task (with no
"with_items") works in a way you may mentally extrapolate out to loops.
...Ralph
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