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Error when using readlink filter: no filter named 'readlink' #10062

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lorin opened this issue Jan 22, 2015 · 1 comment
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Error when using readlink filter: no filter named 'readlink' #10062

lorin opened this issue Jan 22, 2015 · 1 comment
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lorin commented Jan 22, 2015

Issue Type:

Documentation Report

Ansible Version:
ansible-playbook 1.8.2
  configured module search path = None
Environment: N/A
Summary:

The Other Useful Filters section of the Variables document page references a filter named readlink, but it doesn't seem to exist.

Steps To Reproduce:

Playbook that reproduces the issue

- hosts: localhost
  vars:
  - myfile: /tmp
  tasks:
  - debug: msg={{ myfile | readlink }}
Expected Results:

Expected output like this:

ok: [localhost] => {
    "msg": "/private/tmp"
}
Actual Results:
ERROR: template error while templating string: no filter named 'readlink'

Note that there is a filter in lib/ansible/runner/filter_plugins/core.py called realpath, so maybe it should be realpath instead of readlink?
@bcoca bcoca added P3 labels Jan 26, 2015
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abadger commented Feb 26, 2015

Thanks for the bug report. You appear to be correct that we want realpath, not readlink.

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