failure parsing complex variables in inventory file about ansible-cmdb

[fboender]

Hey Dale,

I have confirmed this bug. I'll have to give some thought to a good solution. Thank you for reporting it and I'll try to have a solution as soon as possible.

Regards

Ferry

[fboender]

Hey Dale,

I can't find in the Ansible documentation where it says this is allowed in hosts files. It seems fine for playbooks and variable files (http://docs.ansible.com/ansible/intro_inventory.html#splitting-out-host-and-group-specific-data), but it doesn't seem to be allowed officially in hosts files?

[fboender]

It seems this is explicitly not allowed / discouraged in the manual:

If you need to store lists or hash data, or prefer to keep host and group specific variables separate from the inventory file, see the next section.

The next section is http://docs.ansible.com/ansible/intro_inventory.html#splitting-out-host-and-group-specific-data

Perhaps it works right now in Ansible, but I am apprehensive about adding support for undocumented features. Especially since it would require rewriting a large part of the hosts file parsing code ;-)

I suggest you split the variables out in separate files as suggested by the manual.

[dlbewley]

I hear what you are saying, but FWIW This format comes from https://github.com/openshift/openshift-ansible which is from RH who are the new Ansible benefactors.

[fboender]

You're right, and it does seem to work. I'll re-open this issue and take another look to see if ansible-cmdb can support this.

[fboender]

Hey Dale!

I've committed a fix that implements support for this. I had to make some guesses about how it's supposed to work, since it's not really documented.

Thank you for reporting the bug!

Regards

[dlbewley]

Thanks for accommodating it. Cheers!