how to get value from yaml file ?

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I want to run a playbook to create an individual folder for users in different groups

and I already create a teams.yml file like below

{

“chinese_name”: “\u8ca1\u52d9\u6703\u8a08\u8655”,

“description”: “\u8ca1\u52d9\u6703\u8a08\u8655”,

“gid”: 10126,

“location”: [

“hq”

],

“name”: “ac”,

“users”: [

“tsengyi”,

“chenp”,

“lich”,

“hsiaoch”,

“wangr”,

“dengm”,

"“guot”.

]

then I wrote a task

load yaml file first

  • name: load teams.yml

tags:

  • env

include_vars:

file: files/konwen/teams.yml

  • name: create folders

file:

path: “/home/{{item.user}}/D”

state: present

when: item.name == ‘ac’

with_items: “{{ teams}}”

but the result

tsengyi

‘[u’'‘tsengyi’'‘, u’'‘chenp’'‘, u’'‘lich’'‘, u’'‘hsiaoch’'‘, u’'‘wangr’'‘, u’'‘dengm’'‘, u’'‘guot’'‘, u’'‘hsul’'‘, u’'‘linm’'‘]’

wangc

looks like ansible take whole list into a single value

I expect to create /home/tsengyi/D , /home/chenp/D …and so on

How can I separate the list into piece to do what I need ??

2

Hi,

your file looks like JSON to me, not like YAML (though one is a subset of the other, if I remember correctly…).

My test:

### teams.yaml ###

3

thanks for reply , I think my source file is yaml file

I can pass the yaml validator online

here are 2 items in teams.yml

“teams”: [
{“chinese_name”: “\u79d8\u66f8\u90e8”,“description”: “\u79d8\u66f8\u90e8”,“gid”: 10125,“location”: [“hq”],“name”: “aa”,“users”: [“chenhu”,“chouf”]},
{“chinese_name”: “\u8ca1\u52d9\u6703\u8a08\u8655”,“description”: “\u8ca1\u52d9\u6703\u8a08\u8655”,“gid”: 10126,“location”: [“hq”],“name”: “ac”,“users”: [“chenchiao”,“chengc”]}
]

even I assign a name in task , I still can not use users with tasks below

  • name: load teams.yml
    tags:

  • env
    include_vars:
    file: files/teams.yml
    name: teams

  • name: debug
    tags:

  • env
    debug:
    msg: “{{ item }}”
    loop: " {{ users }}"

I can print the {{ teams }} , but can not get valule from {{ team.users }} or {{ team.name }}
FAILED! => {“msg”: "The task includes an option with an undefined variable. The error was: ‘name’ is undefined / The error was: ‘chinese_name’ is undefined

Eric Chang於 2018年11月22日星期四 UTC+8下午9時08分01秒寫道：

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What version of Ansible?

Are you sure the files are encoded in UTF-8?