not able to match a string in a var list.

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Hi All

Doing something Im sure seems odd but building a production deployment script based on some very manual steps. The dev team list out all the services that need to be upgraded. I made a var called deploy to do two things.

  1. Write out to a build file what needs to be build for prod. Its a flat file
  2. Be able to include upgrade tasks based on if api or data appears in the deployment list

Example of my variable

var:
deploy:

  • api-app v2.41.0
  • api-develop v0.23.2
  • api-tool v0.24.0
  • api-consumers v0.16.0
  • api-data v0.57.2
  • api-bus eventbus-v1.1.2

Im trying to do the following.

  • include task/upgrade-api.yml
    when: “‘api’ in deploy”

This does not work as for some reason as Ive put spaces between it im thinking it cant seem to find ‘api’ at all. If I change the deploy var and remove the versions and have it as one liners like below, it will find a match if I was to have when: “’ api-too’ in deploy. It seems to want to match a whole line and not part of it. I tried doing when: deploy |search(“api’”) but it failed because I think its a list. Im sure there is a better way to do this but wondering why my 'api in deploy” is not finding a match.

var:
deploy:

  • api-app
  • api-develop
  • api-tool
  • api-consumers
  • api-data
  • api-bus
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Using minus or "." in a variable is very, very bad idea... Like in
python those are functions
Try using underscore instead
So :
api-app => api_app
api-develop => api_develop
...

Regards,

3

Thanks Jean

But the issue is that even when I changed them to underscore (like below), Im finding when I do the “‘api’ in deploy” it seems to not find it. Its only when Its a completely match in a line it works. ie when: “‘api_author’ in deploy”.

Example (this does not work)

deploy:

  • api_assess

  • api_author

  • include: tasks/update-api.yml

when: “‘api’ in deploy”

Example (this works)

deploy:

  • api_assess

  • api_author

  • include: tasks/update-api.yml

when: “‘api_assess’ in deploy”

:confused:

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Looks to me like you’re actually building a dict of dicts, rather than a simple list. For example, this works for me: