issue to use variable for retries in the loop

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Hi,

we are trying to use the variable for the value of retries at loop. But always hit an error. We are using ansible version 1.4.3.

Here is the sample test playbook:

  • hosts: test-servers
    vars:
    tries: 5
    tasks:
  • name: test
    debug: msg=“looping”
    register: output
    until: no
    retries: “{{ tries | int }}”
    delay: 1

Here is the error we got:

TASK: [test] ******************************************************************
fatal: [test01] => Traceback (most recent call last):
File “/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/ansible/runner/init.py”, line 394, in _executor
exec_rc = self._executor_internal(host, new_stdin)
File “/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/ansible/runner/init.py”, line 485, in _executor_internal
return self._executor_internal_inner(host, self.module_name, self.module_args, inject, port, complex_args=complex_args)
File “/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/ansible/runner/init.py”, line 694, in _executor_internal_inner
for x in range(1, retries + 1):
TypeError: cannot concatenate ‘str’ and ‘int’ objects

FATAL: all hosts have already failed – aborting

Does anyone have some idea? Appreciate your help.

Thanks
Jack

2

This is probably not something the system is templating out, but should.

Please make sure you have filed a github.com/ansible/ansible ticket with the above info so we can add templating to this call.

Thanks!

3

Here is the issue just created: https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/5865

Thanks
Jack

4

Hi,

Have you found a workaround to that issue? I would like to do the same…

Regards.

5

There won’t be one, a fix just needs to be applied.

Currently we are attacking some more bigger fish in the queue.