Issue understanding variables and with_items

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I think my issue is that I’m trying to get with_items to do too much. But when I use user.uniq instead of with_items, I’m getting a similar error. I’m really not understanding what approach to take. Thanks,

Here is the task:

`

  • name: Create New Version Directories in User’s Home Dir
    file: path={{ home_path }}/home/{{ item.uniq }}/validator/{{ item }} mode=0755 owner={{ item.uniq }} group={{ group_devel }} state=directory
    with_items:
  • “{{ user }}”
  • “{{ validator_ver }}”
  • “{{ validator_ver }}/log”
  • “{{ validator_ver }}/config”
    `

Here is the relevant var from the var/main.yml

`
user:

  • { name: “HeyYou”, uniq: “myself”, validator_port: “1078” }
    `

Here is the error:
`

TASK [netiq-validator : Create New Version Directories in User’s Home Dir] *****
— before
+++ after
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
{
“path”: “/home/myself/validator/{u’validator_port’: u’1078’, u’uniq’: u’myself’, u’name’: u’HeyYou’}”,

  • “state”: “absent”
  • “state”: “directory”
    }
    changed: [p-idm-bot1] => (item={u’validator_port’: u’1078’, u’uniq’: u’myself’, u’name’: u’HeyYou’})
    fatal: [p-idm-bot1]: FAILED! => {“failed”: true, “msg”: “the field ‘args’ has an invalid value, which appears to include a variable that is undefined. The error was: ‘float object’ has no attribute ‘uniq’\n\nThe error appears to have been in ‘ansible/roles/netiq-validator/tasks/main.yml’: line 17, column 3, but may\nbe elsewhere in the file depending on the exact syntax problem.\n\nThe offending line appears to be:\n\n\n- name: Create New Version Directories in User’s Home Dir\n ^ here\n”}
    `
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I'm not sure I understand what you are trying to do, since the with_items list is a mix of different data.

with_items will in you code run the module file 4 times.
1. First time with item = "{{ user }}"
2. Second time with item = "{{ validator_ver }}"
3. Third time with item = "{{ validator_ver }}/log"
4. Last time with item = "{{ validator_ver }}/config"

item.uniq will only be avaiable on the first run since that is the only one that contains the key.

So for owner you are probably looking for "{{ user.uniq }}" and remove the - "{{ user }}" form the list.