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I am having an error where the fields of my variable are not being detected when trying to build a configuration using a jinja2 template. This is to sync Linux repositories to yum and apt based systems from a golden source using ansible. Each repository configuration would go into a different file and the task updated with the variable name. Base system configs should be able to be put in one file using multiple uses of "-" then a list of attributes.

I have reviewed:

for loop in jinja2

https://omarkhawaja.com/accessing-ansible-variables-with-jinja2-loops/

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/25418158/templating-multiple-yum-repo-files-with-ansible-template-module

as well as others that are less relevant to what I am doing.

var file:

---
repo:
 - name: google_chrome
 async: 1
 url: http://dl.google.com/linux/chrome/rpm/stable/x86_6
...

include var task:

- name: Include var into the 'chrome' variable.
 include_vars:
 file: google_chrome_repo.yaml
 name: chrome

task to use template module:

- name: generate config for Centos
 template:
 src: yum_template.j2
 dest: "/etc/yum.repos.d/ item .repo"
 backup: yes
 with_items:
 - chrome
 when:
 - ansible_distribution == 'CentOS'

template:

% for i in item %
[ i.name ]
async = i.async 
baseurl = i.url 
enabled = i.repo_enable 
enablegroups = i.pkggrp_enable 
failovermethod = i.ha_method 
gpgkey = i.gpgkey_url 
http_caching = i.http_caching 
keepcache = i.keepcache 
metadata_expire = i.metadata_expire 
mirrorlist = i.mirrorlist 
mirrorlist_expire = i.mirrorlist_expire 
name = i.descrip 
protect = i.protect 
proxy = i.proxy_config 
proxy_password = i.proxy_username 
proxy_username = i.proxy_password 
repo_gpgcheck = i.repo_gpgcheck 
retries = i.repo_retry_count 
s3_enabled = i.s3_enabled 
sslverify = i.ssl_verify 
timeout = i.timeout 
% endfor %

error:

failed: [192.168.33.31] (item=chrome) => "changed": false, "item": "chrome", "msg": "AnsibleUndefinedVariable: 'unicode object' has no attribute 'name'"

whichever attribute in role is first called by the jinja2 template will fail in this way. If I change the following so name isn't referenced and "i.name" becomes just "chrome" it will fail on async

I can see the variable is imported

ok: [192.168.33.31] => "ansible_facts": "chrome": "repo": ["async": 1, "descrip": "Google Chrome Repository", "gpgkey_url": "https://dl.google.com/linux/linux_signing_key.pub", "ha_method": "roundrobin", "http_caching": 1, "keepcache": 1, "metadata_expire": 21600, "mirrorlist": null, "mirrorlist_expire": 21600, "name": "google_chrome", "pkggrp_enable": 1, "protect": 0, "proxy_config": "__None__", "proxy_password": null, "proxy_username": null, "repo_enable": 1, "repo_gpgcheck": 1, "repo_retry_count": 10, "s3_enabled": 0, "ssl_verify": 1, "timeout": 1, "url": "http://dl.google.com/linux/chrome/rpm/stable/x86_6"], "ansible_included_var_files": ["/var/lib/awx/projects/_6__trowe/playbooks/roles/Manage_Linux_Repos/vars/google_chrome_repo.yaml"], "changed": false

I do see it says "unicode" variable where I would expect it to be a dict. I have also tried with_dict and the error says that the variable is not a dictionary. However if I structure the variable file without "repo:", it will error saying it was not passed a dictionary object...