Loop until with delay: {{ variable.json.counter}}

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Hi.

I’m running my playbook to get akamai to clear some caches and I’m using theit REST API that return json.

now I’m running into a problem with a look that I want to delay for X amount of seconds and X is part of the json response from the api so I’m doing something like :

  • name: Wait for akamai to clear
    action: uri url=https://api.ccu.akamai.com{{akamairesponse.json.progressUri}}
    method=GET user=xxx password=xxx
    HEADER_Content-Type=“application/json”
    status_code=200
    return_content=yes
    register: akamaistatus
    #- debug: msg=“value of status {{akamaistatus.json.purgeStatus}}”
    until: “‘{{akamaistatus.json.purgeStatus}}’ == ‘Done’”
    retries: 10
    #delay: 60
    delay: ‘{{akamairesponse.json.estimatedSeconds|int}}’

debug shows :

TASK: [debug msg=“value of {{akamairesponse.json.estimatedSeconds|int}}”] *****
ok: [localhost] => {
“msg”: “value of 420”
}

but when I run the playbook I get this :

TASK: [Wait for akamai to clear] **********************************************
EXEC [‘/bin/sh’, ‘-c’, ‘mkdir -p $HOME/.ansible/tmp/ansible-1385160064.24-173468909890043 && chmod a+rx $HOME/.ansible/tmp/ansible-1385160064.24-173468909890043 && echo $HOME/.ansible/tmp/ansible-1385160064.24-173468909890043’]
REMOTE_MODULE uri url=https://api.ccu.akamai.com/ccu/v2/purges/ef63d1a5-5401-11e3-8c54-712f0c54712f method=GET user=xxx password=xxx HEADER_Content-Type=“application/json” status_code=200 return_content=yes
PUT /tmp/tmpctvzt8 TO /usr/home/jamengual/.ansible/tmp/ansible-1385160064.24-173468909890043/uri
EXEC [‘/bin/sh’, ‘-c’, ‘/usr/local/bin/python /usr/home/jamengual/.ansible/tmp/ansible-1385160064.24-173468909890043/uri; rm -rf /usr/home/jamengual/.ansible/tmp/ansible-1385160064.24-173468909890043/ >/dev/null 2>&1’]
fatal: [localhost] => Traceback (most recent call last):
File “/usr/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/ansible/runner/init.py”, line 394, in _executor
exec_rc = self._executor_internal(host, new_stdin)
File “/usr/local/lib/python2.7/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/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/ansible/runner/init.py”, line 688, in _executor_internal_inner
time.sleep(delay)
TypeError: a float is required

FATAL: all hosts have already failed – aborting

I tried using jinga2 filter as float and int and it doesn’t work is there a limitation with loops delay variables ?

Thanks.

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Hello,

I think this case was not coded in the handling of delay.
example:

delay: 60

=> ok

delay: “60”

=>TypeError: a float is required

delay: !!float “60”

=> ok

unfortunately the YAML cast cannot work in your case since yaml will complain that your string cannot be cast to float.

maybe others can confirm

3

Hi guys,

Bugs get filed on github, not the mailing list.

Thanks!

4

you seem to confirm this is a bug
bug filed : https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/5031

thanks

5

Well I didn’t know that was a bug :)…until now.