Silent pass of missing handler on notify

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With ansible 2.0.1.0, If I call missing handlers / handlers that are not defined, they are silently ignored. Is that expected behavior? If so, is there any way to check existence and force a failure when a handler I declare doesn’t exist? I can’t think of many situations where I’d like it to just keep running and claim success.

  • debug: msg=“expected behavior to not fail?”
    changed_when: true
    notify:
  • nonexistent_handler

TASK [debug] *******************************************************************
task path: /data/tst.yml:44
NOTIFIED HANDLER nonexistent_handler
ok: [testbox] => {
“msg”: “expected behavior to not fail?”
}

PLAY RECAP *********************************************************************
testbox : ok=2 changed=1 unreachable=0 failed=0

Thanks,
Patrick