On Wednesday, 28 March 2018 07.26.14 CEST 'Uvindra Dias Jayasinha' via Ansible
Project wrote:
> Im using Ansible 2.5 on Ubuntu 17.10
>
> Given the following xml file
>
> <business>
> <beers>
> </beers>
> </business>
>
>
> Trying to add nested elements so that the file is changed to the following
> output fails.
>
> <business>
> <beers>
> <beer>
> <name>Old Rasputin</name>
> <year>2000</year>
> </beer>
> </beers>
> </business>
>
>
> Here is the playbook I used
>
> - name: Add several more beers with the year of manufacture nested
> xml:
> path: /foo/bar.xml
> xpath: /business/beers
> add_children:
> - beer:
> - name: Old Rasputin
> - year: 2000
>
> I see the following exception,
>
> An exception occurred during task execution. To see the full traceback, use
> -vvv. The error was: TypeError: Argument must be bytes or unicode, got
> 'list'
> fatal: [localhost]: FAILED! => {"changed": false, "module_stderr": "Traceback
> (most recent call last):\n File
> \"/tmp/ansible_sv9JSC/ansible_module_xml.py\",
> line 860, in <module>\n main()\n File
> \"/tmp/ansible_sv9JSC/ansible_module_xml.py\", line 840, in main\n
> add_target_children(module, doc, xpath, namespaces, add_children,
> input_type)\n File \"/tmp/ansible_sv9JSC/ansible_module_xml.py\", line 409,
> in add_target_children\n
> new_kids = children_to_nodes(module, children, in_type)\n File
> \"/tmp/ansible_sv9JSC/ansible_module_xml.py\", line 651, in
> children_to_nodes\n
> return [child_to_element(module, child, type) for child in children]\n File
> \"/tmp/ansible_sv9JSC/ansible_module_xml.py\", line 639, in
> child_to_element\n
> node.text = value\n File \"src/lxml/etree.pyx\", line 1030, in
> lxml.etree._Element.text.__set__\n File \"src/lxml/apihelpers.pxi\", line
> 716, in lxml.etree._setNodeText\n
> File \"src/lxml/apihelpers.pxi\", line 704, in lxml.etree._createTextNode\n
> File \"src/lxml/apihelpers.pxi\", line 1442, in lxml.etree._utf8\nTypeError:
> Argument must be bytes or unicode, got 'list'\n",
> "module_stdout": "", "msg": "MODULE FAILURE", "rc": 1}
>
> Is this supported or am I missing something here?
To my knowledge you can't create children's children in one task.
You need to create beer first in one task and then name and year in a separate
task.
--
Kai Stian Olstad
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