Hi,

> I just opened https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/79874 and
> Matt explained that 2.14 change is working as designed and closed the
> issue.
> 
> Matt put a link in the issue describing variable lazy eval and how 
> undefined variables now work:
> https://docs.ansible.com/ansible-core/2.14/porting_guides/porting_guide_core_2.14.html#playbook

if someone is interested, the implementation of that change happened in
https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/56116

> I believe I'm tracking those changes, but I'm still lost on how my
> use case can be implemented.  My specific use case was a task's when
> clause determining to execute based on a top level variable being
> "authored".  If the author made a mistake in the nested elements,
> then an exception is desired.  How can this use case be implemented
> in 2.14?

I'm not sure it can actually be implemented anymore, at least for
something that works in the form of `nested is my_undefined_test`.
Maybe it is still possible to do something like `"nested" is
my_undefined_test`, where `my_undefined_test` is a custom test plugin
which checks whether a global object of that name seems to exist. But
that depends on how Jinja2 internally works, which I know too little
about.

Best,
Felix


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