As a follow up to this question How to read a particular part of file in ansible. I am trying to do the same but by using roles. The variables are stored in vars files
Here is the vars/main.yml file in the role
add:
commands: []
sub:
commands: []
multiply:
commands: []
div:
commands: []
Here's the code in tasks/main.yml file
- name: Getting the Add Commands
set_fact:
add.commands: "{{add.commands + [ item ]}}"
with_lines: "cat {{ {{playbook_dir}}/testing/files/data.txt }}"
when: item is search('^add')
- debug:
var: add.commands
- name: Getting the Sub Commands
set_fact:
sub.commands: "{{sub.commands + [ item ]}}"
with_lines: "cat {{ {{playbook_dir}}/testing/files/data.txt }}"
when: item is search('^sub')
- debug:
var: sub.commands
- name: Getting the Multiply Commands
set_fact:
multiply.commands: "{{multiply.commands + [ item ]}}"
with_lines: "cat {{ {{playbook_dir}}/testing/files/data.txt }}"
when: item is search('^multiply')
- debug:
var: multiply.commands
- name: Getting the Div Commands
set_fact:
div.commands: "{{div.commands + [ item ]}}"
with_lines: "cat {{ {{playbook_dir}}/testing/files/data.txt }}"
when: item is search('^div')
- debug:
var: div.commands
Code to execute the role testing.yml
- name: Main Program
hosts: localhost
roles:
- testing
I thought that I would get the add commands for add.commands and similarly for others but I am getting the following error
"msg": "The variable name 'add.commands' is not valid. Variables must start with a letter or underscore character, and contain only letters, numbers and underscores."
Can anyone tell me how to troubleshoot this error and why it happened in the first place.
