ansible/test/integration/targets/lookup_ini/test_lookup_properties.yml

- name: Lookup test
  hosts: testhost

  tasks:
    - name: "read properties value"
      set_fact:
        test1: "{{lookup('ini', 'value1            type=properties  file=lookup.properties')}}"
        test2: "{{lookup('ini', 'value2', type='properties',  file='lookup.properties')}}"
        test_dot: "{{lookup('ini', 'value.dot', type='properties',  file='lookup.properties')}}"
        field_with_space: "{{lookup('ini', 'field.with.space  type=properties  file=lookup.properties')}}"

    - assert:
        that: "{{item}} is defined"
      with_items: [ 'test1', 'test2', 'test_dot', 'field_with_space' ]

    - name: "read ini value"
      set_fact:
        value1_global: "{{lookup('ini', 'value1', section='global', file='lookup.ini')}}"
        value2_global: "{{lookup('ini', 'value2', section='global', file='lookup.ini')}}"
        value1_section1: "{{lookup('ini', 'value1', section='section1', file='lookup.ini')}}"
        field_with_unicode: "{{lookup('ini', 'unicode', section='global', file='lookup.ini')}}"

    - debug: var={{item}}
      with_items: [ 'value1_global', 'value2_global', 'value1_section1', 'field_with_unicode' ]

    - assert:
        that:
          - "field_with_unicode == 'été indien où à château français ïîôû'"

    - name: "read ini value from iso8859-15 file"
      set_fact:
        field_with_unicode: "{{lookup('ini', 'field_with_unicode section=global encoding=iso8859-1 file=lookup-8859-15.ini')}}"

    - assert:
        that:
          - "field_with_unicode == 'été indien où à château français ïîôû'"

    - name: "read ini value with section and regexp"
      set_fact:
        value_section:    "{{lookup('ini', 'value[1-2]        section=value_section file=lookup.ini re=true')}}"
        other_section:    "{{lookup('ini', 'other[1-2]        section=other_section file=lookup.ini re=true')}}"

    - debug: var={{item}}
      with_items: [ 'value_section', 'other_section' ]

    - assert:
        that:
          - "value_section == '1,2'"
          - "other_section == '4,5'"

    - name: "Reading unknown value"
      set_fact:
        unknown:  "{{lookup('ini', 'unknown  default=unknown section=section1 file=lookup.ini')}}"

    - debug: var=unknown

    - assert:
        that:
          - 'unknown == "unknown"'

    - name: "Looping over section section1"
      debug: msg="{{item}}"
      with_ini: value[1-2] section=section1      file=lookup.ini re=true
      register: _

    - assert:
        that:
          - '_.results.0.item == "section1/value1"'
          - '_.results.1.item == "section1/value2"'

    - name: "Looping over section value_section"
      debug: msg="{{item}}"
      with_ini: value[1-2] section=value_section file=lookup.ini re=true
      register: _

    - assert:
        that:
          - '_.results.0.item == "1"'
          - '_.results.1.item == "2"'

    - debug: msg="{{item}}"
      with_ini: value[1-2] section=section1 file=lookup.ini re=true
      register: _

    - assert:
        that:
          - '_.results.0.item == "section1/value1"'
          - '_.results.1.item == "section1/value2"'