Hello,
I’ve written a role including two python modules, one to provide Ansible with a list of new host names in order to create a dynamic group and another one using the list of all hosts. Here is a part of the main.yml file of the role:
`
-
name: Get list of new hosts
get_new_hosts:
register: get_new_hosts_return -
name: Create ‘new’ dynamic group
add_host: name={{ item }} group=new
with_items: get_new_hosts_return.host_list -
name: DEBUG… check full host list
debug: msg={{ groups[‘all’] }} -
name: Run task using all hosts
use_all_hosts: “{host_list: {{ groups[‘all’] }}, arg2: ‘val_2’, arg_3: True}”
`
In the debug task, host names are correctly displayed. Then I run the next python module using the inventory groups[‘all’]. You see that I send arguments as a YAML string and I just read them in the python module through the yaml.load() function. It works correctly but the problem is that I get arguments from the args file as:
`
{host_list: [‘host_name_1’, ‘host_name_2’, … , u’new_host_name_1’, u’new_host_name_2’, …], arg_2: ‘val_2’, arg_3: True}
`
Host names from the dynamic group are written as the string u’new_host_name’ that is not a Unicode string, just a Python representation of Unicode. Then I cannot read correct names except if I remove the u’’ characters.
Is there something wrong in what I wrote? In such a case what?
Thank you in advance for your help.