Is there a 1.2 equivilant of "when_set: $var"?

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I see this thread comes up in google: https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/2699
I’m finding that I often want to test if a variable is set before I run a task. Specifically I’m running into situations where I load variables conditionally like:

var_files:

  • path/to/{{ environment}}/vars.yml

Where downstream tasks operate on lists defined in vars.yml that may or may not exist depending on the environment.

-John

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Hi John,

I use the following idiom all the time:

  • name: maybe do this is foo is set

shell: echo ‘Hazzah!’

when: foo is defined

K

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That’s perfect, thanks! -John

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We should put this in the docs under ‘when’ in 1.2.

Nice.

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BTW, it will work here but you should be careful naming variables named ‘environment’, as environment is set to the values of ‘environment:’ later on.

It’s documented as reserved.

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Done :slight_smile: Pull request submitted.

K