Programmatic access to variables defined inside a role not working

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Hello,

I need to programmatically access variables defined with a role ( via myrole/vars/main.yaml)

I tried using the trick described in the Ansible FAQ - {{ hostvars[ inventory_hostname ][ myvar ] }} but it appears variables defined within the role are not included in this hostvars namespace.

Would love to figure out a way to access my role variables programmatically.

Thanks in advance,
–Ed

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I noticed there is a difference in how Ansible 1.5.5 handles this vs. Ansible 1.6 Git May 1, 2014.

Ansible 1.6 Git is now including role variables in the hostvars scope. I have one remaining issue
in 1.6 which is if the variable being referenced itself references another variable, the ultimate value
is not being properly assembled.

slack_mir: ‘rsync://slackware.cs.utah.edu’

slack_dir: ‘slackware/slackware64-{{ slack_ver }}’

slack_url: ‘{{ slack_mir }}/{{ slack_dir }}’

alpine_sb_url: ‘{{ slack_url }}/source/n/alpine’

pkg: ‘alpine’

When I reference as below, the final variable is not being properly assembled
as seen in the Ansible 1.6 error message below.

{{ hostvars[inventory_hostname][pkg + ‘_sb_url’] }}

Ansible 1.5.5

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Does your task have an explicit name in the playbook?

(Can we see the playbook?)