Document 'when' and tweak the code to be a little more comprehensive on what is false.

pull/1684/merge
Michael DeHaan 12 years ago
parent 08b3c77dc7
commit da90c5f75e

@ -288,6 +288,47 @@ While `only_if` is a pretty good option for advanced users, it exposes more guts
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 Execution (Simplified)
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In Ansible 0.9, we realized that only_if was a bit syntactically complicated, and exposed too much Python
to the user. As a result, the 'when' set of keywords was added. The 'when' statements do not have
to be quoted or casted to specify types, but you should seperate any variables used with whitespace. In
most cases users will be able to use 'when', but for more complex cases, only_if may still be required.
Here are various examples of 'when' in use. 'when' is incompatible with 'only_if' in the same task::
- name: "do this if my favcolor is blue, and my dog is named fido"
action: shell /bin/false
when_string: $favcolor == 'blue' and $dog == 'fido'
- name: "do this if my favcolor is not blue, and my dog is named fido"
action: shell /bin/true
when_string: $favcolor != 'blue' and $dog == 'fido'
- name: "do this if my SSN is over 9000"
action: shell /bin/true
when_integer: $ssn > 9000
- name: "do this if I have one of these SSNs"
action: shell /bin/true
when_integer: $ssn in [ 8675309, 8675310, 8675311 ]
- name: "do this if a variable named hippo is NOT defined"
action: shell /bin/true
when_unset: $hippo
- name: "do this if a variable named hippo is defined"
action: shell /bin/true
when_set: $hippo
- name: "do this if a variable named hippo is true"
action: shell /bin/true
when_boolean: $hippo
The when_boolean check will look for variables that look to be true as well, such as the string 'True' or
'true', non-zero numbers, and so on.
Conditional Imports
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@ -232,7 +232,7 @@ class Task(object):
tcopy = tokens[1:]
for (i, t) in enumerate(tcopy):
if t.find("$") != -1:
tcopy[i] = "(is_set('''%s''') and '''%s'''.lower() not in ('false', 'none', '0', ''))" % (t, t)
tcopy[i] = "(is_set('''%s''') and '''%s'''.lower() not in ('false', 'no', 'n', 'none', '0', ''))" % (t, t)
return " ".join(tcopy)
else:

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