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diff --git a/lib/ansible/plugins/filter/from_yaml_all.yml b/lib/ansible/plugins/filter/from_yaml_all.yml new file mode 100644 index 0000000..b179f1c --- /dev/null +++ b/lib/ansible/plugins/filter/from_yaml_all.yml @@ -0,0 +1,28 @@ +DOCUMENTATION: + name: from_yaml_all + version_added: 'historical' + short_description: Convert a series of YAML documents into a variable structure + description: + - Converts a YAML documents in a string representation into an equivalent structured Ansible variable. + - Ansible internally auto-converts YAML strings into variable structures in most contexts, but by default does not handle 'multi document' YAML files or strings. + - If multiple YAML documents are not supplied, this is the equivalend of using C(from_yaml). + notes: + - This filter functions as a wrapper to the Python C(yaml.safe_load_all) function, part of the L(pyyaml Python library, https://pypi.org/project/PyYAML/). + - Possible conflicts in variable names from the mulitple documents are resolved directly by the pyyaml library. + options: + _input: + description: A YAML string. + type: string + required: true + +EXAMPLES: | + # variable from string variable containing YAML documents + {{ multidoc_yaml_string | from_yaml_all }} + + # variable from multidocument YAML string + {{ '---\n{"a": true, "b": 54, "c": [1,2,3]}\n...\n---{"x": 1}\n...\n' | from_yaml_all}} + +RETURN: + _value: + description: The variable resulting from deserializing the YAML documents. + type: raw |