$ENV() returns array

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Hi,

By default, reading an environment variable using $ENV(NAME) appears to return an array of strings. Is there a way to coerce $ENV(NAME) into a simple string?

Cheers,

Ben

2

This is fixed on 1.1

80%+ of everyone runs the development branch out of checkout (I know,
it's strange! But it works!) so you're free to do the same if you
want.

3

My clone of the ansible upstream is at 50c1c06088 on the devel branch and I am still getting the array behavior doing the following:

  • name: Update DNS
    action: shell route53 change_record $r53_zone graphite.$domain CNAME $inventory_hostname
    environment:
    AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID: $ENV(AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID)
    AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY: $ENV(AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY)
    tags:
  • dns

When this is executed, the env vars are correctly read out of the current shell into the remote shell, albeit as arrays.

You mentioned a 1.1 - is this just the name of the milestone that you will cut when it is ready, or is there actually a HEAD on Github that I am missing?

4

This happens to work fine:

   - shell: echo $ENV(HOME)

So it's more of a case of using the macro within the environment
keyword that we need to fix, which is this:

  - shell: echo $FOO
     environment:
        FOO: $ENV(HOME)

I'll file a ticket.

I'm referring to HEAD in git, yes.

5

Thanks for looking into this. For now, I think I can probably hack something together to get this going.