Merge pull request #1881 from fdavis/when_changed_fail

add when_changed when_failed example to docsite
pull/1875/merge
Michael DeHaan 12 years ago
commit 1cae679271

@ -329,6 +329,26 @@ Here are various examples of 'when' in use. 'when' is incompatible with 'only_i
The when_boolean check will look for variables that look to be true as well, such as the string 'True' or The when_boolean check will look for variables that look to be true as well, such as the string 'True' or
'true', non-zero numbers, and so on. 'true', non-zero numbers, and so on.
We also added when_changed and when_failed so users can execute tasks based on the status of previously
registered tasks. As an example::
- name: "register a task that might fail"
action: shell /bin/false
register: result
ignore_errors: True
- name: "do this if the registered task failed"
action: shell /bin/true
when_failed: $result
- name: "register a task that might change"
action: yum pkg=httpd state=latest
register: result
- name: "do this if the registered task changed"
action: shell /bin/true
when_changed: $result
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