bug? Ignoring jinja variable substitution in templates

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Is it possible to ignore variable substitution in templates? I’ve attempted {% raw %}, {% verbatim %}, slash escaping, and using jinja to output braces.

Reason: I am writing a playbook that generates playbooks; so need to preserve the curly braces. Here’s an example:

<mytemplate.j2>

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you can add an override header (small notice on template docs that is on my
list to expand)
make this the first line of the template:
#jinja2: variable_start_string: "[%" , variable_end_string: "%]"

then you can use [% var %] on the 'outer' template and {{ var }} won't get
touched in the 'inner' template.

3

Brian,

Thanks for the workaround! I saw mention of this && didn’t think to apply. Do you think supporting {% raw %} is worthwhile? I can open a ticket if so.

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raw is standard Jinja2, we didn’t do anything to disable it.

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Brian,

I have tried this workaround. Unfortunately curly braces STILL get evaluated. E.g. in the following template

<mytemplate.j2>
#jinja2: variable_start_string: “[%” , variable_end_string: “%]”

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Thanks for the ticket. It’s in queue!