How to use notify with with_items

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i am downloading zip files from an url, i am using with_items for list of zip files in that location, i want to do a task (extract) for only the file downloaded. Since i am new to ansible i cant think of anything other than using with_items for downloading files, but i dont know how to make use of notify here, if i use notify below with_items how it will invoke only the file it has downloaded. To summarise , i want to download zip files which are changed, extract only the files which are downloaded and install only the files which are extracted. Since with_items has all the files listed in it , how can i achieve this workflow in ansible

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Why ansible forums is not so active all the time?

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ansiblers any help?

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use win_get_url and with_items with a list of zips you want to download, and also use ‘register’ to capture which files were downloaded into a variable with a name like download_list. Also set ‘force=no’ on win_get_url so that it only fetches each zip once.

Then you can use the results in download_list to make a new list of zips that need extracting ( changed=true) and call win_unzip with the zips that were changed.

use the debug module

  • name: show contents of download list
    debug
    var: download_list

to see what has been downloaded

This will work fine until you have a zip file that won’t unzip. In which case you will either have to remove the (broken) zip file and re-run your playbook, or perhaps change the ‘force=no’ to ‘force=yes’.

Hope this helps.

Jon

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Then you can use the results in download_list to make a new list of zips that need extracting ( changed=true) and call win_unzip with the zips that were changed

How can i do this?

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Should i use “when” here?

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ansiblers any help?

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Hi,

These two link may help you

  1. http://docs.ansible.com/ansible/win_get_url_module.html
  2. http://docs.ansible.com/ansible/win_unzip_module.html

Thanks,