parsing error: colons in a playbook key value pair

Archives Ansible Project
1

Having some trouble with having a colon as part of a playbook YAML key value pair using v0.7.1

playbook text:

2

Yes, we're aware.

YAML is otherwise mostly wonderful, but if you have a colon, you have
to quote the line.

Like so:

foo: "This line: has a colon, it it"

3

Hi Jonathan,

This is the same problem we had last for lineinfile.
The undocumented solution is to quote the entire line after action
keyword and double quotes for the arguments.

ex. action: 'lineinfile ...'

Rodney

4

This is clearly documented in YAML, we might want to note it and other YAML specifics in the playbook section.

5

Many thanks, gentleman. Duly noted.

</mobile email>