Merge pull request #1404 from dagwieers/doc-fix1

Clarify how only_if works, also combined with with_items
pull/1648/head
Michael DeHaan 12 years ago
commit 5020af0a45

@ -272,12 +272,20 @@ In Ansible 0.8, a few shortcuts are available for testing whether a variable is
tasks:
- action: command echo hi
only_if: is_set($some_variable)
only_if: is_set('$some_variable')
There is a matching 'is_unset' that works the same way. Do not quote the variables inside the function.
There is a matching 'is_unset' that works the same way. Quoting the variable inside the function is mandatory.
While only_if is a pretty good option for advanced users, it exposes more guts of the engine than we'd like, and
we can do better. In 0.9, we will be adding 'when', which will be like a syntactic sugar for only_if and hide
When combining `only_if` with `with_items`, be aware that the `only_if` statement is processed for each item.
This is a deliberate design::
tasks:
- action: command echo $item
with_item: [ 0, 2, 4, 6, 8, 10 ]
only_if: "$item > 5"
While `only_if` is a pretty good option for advanced users, it exposes more guts of the engine than we'd like, and
we can do better. In 0.9, we will be adding `when`, which will be like a syntactic sugar for `only_if` and hide
this level of complexity -- it will numerous built in operators.
Conditional Imports

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