All those quotes are ugly... Would love to have something a debug module
option for this.
On Tuesday, September 16, 2014 at 2:27:27 AM UTC+2, AJ Daws wrote:
>
> Well, it's a bit hacky but it gives the best result so far, and that'll
> do. Thanks!
>
>
> ok: [localhost] => {
> "multi_line_string.split('\\n')": [
> "Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet,",
> "consectetur adipiscing elit,",
> "sed do eiusmod tempor incididunt",
> "ut labore et dolore magna aliqua. Ut enim",
> "ad minim veniam, quis nostrud exercitation",
> "ullamco laboris nisi ut aliquip ex ea commodo",
> "consequat.",
> "Duis aute irure dolor in reprehenderit in",
> "voluptate velit esse cillum dolore eu fugiat nulla",
> "pariatur. Excepteur sint occaecat cupidatat non proident,",
> "sunt in culpa qui officia deserunt mollit anim id est laborum.",
> ""
> ]
> }
>
>
>
> ok: [localhost] => {
> "cloudinit_user_data.split('\\n')": [
> "#cloud-config",
> "users:",
> " - name: core",
> " ssh-authorized-keys:",
> " - ssh-rsa ...
>
>
>
> On Monday, 15 September 2014 16:59:47 UTC-7, tkuratomi wrote:
>>
>> If all you want is to get your debug to print something somewhat human
>> readable, perhaps this will work:
>>
>> Task:
>> - name: Cloud-init user_data
>> debug: var=multi_line_string.split('\n')
>>
>> -Toshio
>>
>>
>> On Mon, Sep 15, 2014 at 4:08 PM, AJ Daws <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>>> To simplify out the fact that my multi-line string was YAML, how about
>>> this example:
>>>
>>> Example string:
>>> multi_line_string: |
>>> Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet,
>>> consectetur adipiscing elit,
>>> sed do eiusmod tempor incididunt
>>> ut labore et dolore magna aliqua. Ut enim
>>> ad minim veniam, quis nostrud exercitation
>>> ullamco laboris nisi ut aliquip ex ea commodo
>>> consequat.
>>> Duis aute irure dolor in reprehenderit in
>>> voluptate velit esse cillum dolore eu fugiat nulla
>>> pariatur. Excepteur sint occaecat cupidatat non proident,
>>> sunt in culpa qui officia deserunt mollit anim id est laborum.
>>>
>>>
>>> Task:
>>> - name: Cloud-init user_data
>>> debug: var=multi_line_string
>>>
>>> Output:
>>> ok: [localhost] => {
>>> "multi_line_string": "Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet,\nconsectetur
>>> adipiscing elit,\nsed do eiusmod tempor incididunt\nut labore et dolore
>>> magna aliqua. Ut enim\nad minim veniam, quis nostrud exercitation\nullamco
>>> laboris nisi ut aliquip ex ea commodo\nconsequat.\nDuis aute irure dolor in
>>> reprehenderit in\nvoluptate velit esse cillum dolore eu fugiat
>>> nulla\npariatur. Excepteur sint occaecat cupidatat non proident,\nsunt in
>>> culpa qui officia deserunt mollit anim id est laborum.\n"
>>> }
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On Monday, 15 September 2014 15:59:29 UTC-7, Michael DeHaan wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Let me take that back - it's because it's JSON. It would not be valid
>>>> JSON if it were not.
>>>>
>>>> Sorry, this is what you're pretty much going to have here, unless we
>>>> teach debug to have an format=yaml option or something, which I'd be ok
>>>> with.
>>>>
>>>> But even then, YAML needs hints and might get it wrong.
>>>>
>>>> On Mon, Sep 15, 2014 at 6:58 PM, Michael DeHaan <[email protected]>
>>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> That's because they are escaped newlines, versus real newlines, I'm
>>>>> suspecting.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> On Mon, Sep 15, 2014 at 6:51 PM, AJ Daws <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> Unfortunately that still shows escaped newline characters so isn't
>>>>>> any more readable. For example:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> TASK: [ec2-launcher-v2 | debug var=cloudinit_user_data]
>>>>>> ***********************
>>>>>> ok: [localhost] => {
>>>>>> "cloudinit_user_data": "#cloud-config\nusers:\n - name: core\n
>>>>>> ssh-authorized-keys:\n - ssh-rsa AAAA..."
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> On Monday, 15 September 2014 14:32:43 UTC-7, James Cammarata wrote:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Hi AJ,
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Using "- debug: var=cloudinit_user_data" will show you the
>>>>>>> pretty-printed version of the var, without any escaped values, though
>>>>>>> you
>>>>>>> won't be able to control the indentation of that data.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Thanks!
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> On Fri, Sep 12, 2014 at 7:55 PM, AJ Daws <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> I have a large, multi-line string that I would like to output in a
>>>>>>>> role. Currently I'm using the debug module like this:
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> - name: Cloud-init user_data
>>>>>>>> debug:
>>>>>>>> msg: "{{ cloudinit_user_data|indent(6) }}"
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> However this generates JSON output which is quite hard to read as
>>>>>>>> newlines are represented as "\n" rather than an actual new line. Is
>>>>>>>> there
>>>>>>>> a simple way to simply output a string as-is?
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