How to use check ansible task result from inside a loop made with_items?

Question

Imagine this Ansible code that is supposed to set the task as failed only when the command returns a value different than 0 or 1.

- shell: some-command
  register: result
  failed_when: result.rc not in [0, 1] or 'err' in result.stdout_lines

How it would look the variant that does use a with_items loop? As you probably know for these result structure would contain a results dictionary which stores the results of each item.

Sadly for us, we want to decide the failed status by looking at all.

- shell: "{{ item }}"
  register: result
  failed_when: ????
  with_items:
  - ls
  - df

techraf techraf · Accepted Answer · 2018-05-30T12:59:44

This is a non-issue. Use the same condition as in your first example:

- shell: "{{ item }}"
  register: result
  failed_when: result.rc not in [0, 1] or 'err' in result.stdout_lines
  with_items:
  - ls
  - df

As you probably know for these result structure would contain a results dictionary which stores the results of each item.

Except that this structure is created after the execution and is accessible from subsequent tasks, not from inside the loop.

How to use check ansible task result from inside a loop made with_items?

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