Hi all,
I’m wondering if this is the intended behavior of split_args (ansible 1.9.0.1):
from ansible.module_utils.splitter import split_args
split_args(‘content=" a b"’)
[u’content=" a b"']
split_args(‘content=" a\n b"’)
[u’content=" a\nb"']
i.e. if stripping the spaces after the new line is how split_args is supposed to work.
Because spaces are stripped, this is not working for me:
- name: Create YAML from some variable
copy: content={{ some_variable | to_nice_yaml }} dest=/some/file
since the indentation of the YAML is broken once the spaces are removed.
BTW my original problem was encrypting a YAML configuration file (not an ansible playbook, just a configuration file for my application that I wanted to store encrypted before copying it to the deployment server.) To the best of my understanding it’s not possible to put a file in the vault, so I stored the YAML in an encrypted vars file instead. But then I stumbled into the reported bug, preventing me to recreate a valid human readable YAML file from the variable. My current solution is to write {{ some_variable | to_json }} exploiting the fact that JSON is also valid YAML but indentation is not significative at the expense of some readability.
Gabriele