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fossil iron Nov 16, 2022, 5:25 PM

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Disabling this option is running fine

mild spindle Nov 16, 2022, 5:36 PM

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I'm curious to see what you have in mirror.update It looks like an input issue to me.

fossil iron Nov 16, 2022, 5:37 PM

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Actually I have given as below,

update : "{{ mirror.update | default(omit) }}"

And no variable to it. below are my inputs

"mirror": {
    "cluster": "10.216.4.57",
    "create_destination": true,
    "destination_cluster": "10.216.4.82",
    "destination_cluster_name": "cluster2",
    "destination_path": "svm1_dr:",
    "source_cluster_name": "cluster1",
    "source_path": "svm1:"
},

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I'm trying to set it optional

mild spindle Nov 16, 2022, 5:37 PM

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The issue is with the mirror variable

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It does not have an update member. And I'm afraid Ansible considers mirror is a dictionary and have some builtin methods. So update may be one of them.

fossil iron Nov 16, 2022, 5:42 PM

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oh okay! interesting... let me try to change that

mild spindle Nov 16, 2022, 5:47 PM

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yes, very interesting, check: https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/user_guide/playbooks_variables.html#referencing-key-value-dictionary-variables Dot notation can cause problems because some keys collide with attributes and methods of python dictionaries. Use bracket notation if you use keys which start and end with two underscores (which are reserved for special meanings in python) or are any of the known public attributes

fossil iron Nov 16, 2022, 5:56 PM

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I tried changing the param into multiple names.
Currently I'm using as below.

update : "{{ snpmir.update | default(omit) }}"

but it still fails

            "path": "svm1:"
        },
        "state": "absent",
        "transferring_time_out": 300,
        "update": "<built-in method update of dict object at 0x7fb25949f300>",
        "use_rest": "auto",
        "username": "admin",
        "validate_certs": false,
        "validate_source_path": true
    }
},
"msg": "argument update is of type <class 'str'> and we were unable to convert to bool: The value '<built-in method update of dict object at 0x7fb25949f300>' is not a valid boolean.  Valid booleans include: 0, 1, 'n', 'true', 't', '0', 'f', 'on', 'false', 'off', '1', 'no', 'y', 'yes'",
"snpmir": {
    "cluster": "10.216.4.57",
    "create_destination": true,
    "destination_cluster": "10.216.4.82",
    "destination_cluster_name": "cluster2",
    "destination_path": "svm1_dr:",
    "source_cluster_name": "cluster1",
    "source_path": "svm1:",
    "state": "absent"
}

}

mild spindle Nov 16, 2022, 6:19 PM

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you can't use snpmir.update if snpmir is a dict. You need to use snpmir['update'] or mirror['update']

fossil iron Nov 17, 2022, 2:51 AM

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Ansible supports .operation for dictionaries. All variables are defined that way. Only update is breaking

fossil iron Nov 17, 2022, 6:28 PM

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@mild spindle where you able check this?

mild spindle Nov 17, 2022, 7:49 PM

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See above. You cannot use . notation with reserved keywords

fossil iron Nov 18, 2022, 2:35 AM

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My bad! I missed that part. Thanks Laurent!

fossil iron Nov 18, 2022, 8:18 AM

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@mild spindle , I update the module to remove dot notation and using it as below.

update                      : "{{ snpmirror['update']                                | default(omit) }}"

But it still fails with same error.

        "password": "VALUE_SPECIFIED_IN_NO_LOG_PARAMETER",
        "peer_options": {
            "hostname": "10.216.4.57"
        },
        "relationship_info_only": false,
        "relationship_state": "active",
        "source_endpoint": {
            "cluster": "cluster1",
            "path": "svm1:"
        },
        "state": "present",
        "transferring_time_out": 300,
        "update": "<built-in method update of dict object at 0x7fe5495ca540>",
        "use_rest": "auto",
        "username": "admin",
        "validate_certs": false,
        "validate_source_path": true
    }
},
"msg": "argument update is of type <class 'str'> and we were unable to convert to bool: The value '<built-in method update of dict object at 0x7fe5495ca540>' is not a valid boolean.  Valid booleans include: 0, 'on', '1', 1, 'f', 'off', 't', 'n', 'yes', '0', 'false', 'no', 'true', 'y'",
"snpmirror": {
    "cluster": "10.216.4.57",
    "create_destination": true,
    "destination_cluster": "10.216.4.82",
    "destination_cluster_name": "cluster2",
    "destination_path": "svm1_dr:",
    "source_cluster_name": "cluster1",
    "source_path": "svm1:"
}

}

fossil iron Nov 18, 2022, 11:56 AM

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With detailed troubleshooting what I see is none of ansible logic conditions are working with variable. Like default(omit), default(false) or update : "{{ false if snpmirror['update'] is not defined else snpmirror['update'] }}".

Only if we set yes/no or true/false directly its working.

I think ansible is overriding "update" variable no matter what way we declared it.

After changing the variable name itself I got it working.

update : "{{ snpmirror['snapmirror_update'] | default(omit) }}"

#Hi laurent8106 I noticed that update