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Diffstat (limited to 'lib/ansible/plugins/action/assert.py')
| -rw-r--r-- | lib/ansible/plugins/action/assert.py | 23 |
1 files changed, 22 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/lib/ansible/plugins/action/assert.py b/lib/ansible/plugins/action/assert.py index 7721a6b4..e8ab6a9a 100644 --- a/lib/ansible/plugins/action/assert.py +++ b/lib/ansible/plugins/action/assert.py @@ -63,8 +63,29 @@ class ActionModule(ActionBase): quiet = boolean(self._task.args.get('quiet', False), strict=False) + # directly access 'that' via untemplated args from the task so we can intelligently trust embedded + # templates and preserve the original inputs/locations for better messaging on assert failures and + # errors. + # FIXME: even in devel, things like `that: item` don't always work properly (truthy string value + # is not really an embedded expression) + # we could fix that by doing direct var lookups on the inputs + # FIXME: some form of this code should probably be shared between debug, assert, and + # Task.post_validate, since they + # have a lot of overlapping needs + try: + thats = self._task.untemplated_args['that'] + except KeyError: + # in the case of "we got our entire args dict from a template", we can just consult the + # post-templated dict (the damage has likely already been done for embedded templates anyway) + thats = self._task.args['that'] + + # FIXME: this is a case where we only want to resolve indirections, NOT recurse containers + # (and even then, the leaf-most expression being wrapped is at least suboptimal + # (since its expression will be "eaten"). + if isinstance(thats, str): + thats = self._templar.template(thats) + # make sure the 'that' items are a list - thats = self._task.args['that'] if not isinstance(thats, list): thats = [thats] |