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diff --git a/lib/ansible/plugins/filter/to_nice_yaml.yml b/lib/ansible/plugins/filter/to_nice_yaml.yml new file mode 100644 index 0000000..4677a86 --- /dev/null +++ b/lib/ansible/plugins/filter/to_nice_yaml.yml @@ -0,0 +1,39 @@ +DOCUMENTATION: + name: to_yaml + author: core team + version_added: 'historical' + short_description: Convert variable to YAML string + description: + - Converts an Ansible variable into a YAML string representation. + - This filter functions as a wrapper to the L(Python PyYAML library, https://pypi.org/project/PyYAML/)'s C(yaml.dump) function. + - Ansible internally auto-converts YAML strings into variable structures so this plugin is used to force it into a YAML string. + positional: _input + options: + _input: + description: A variable or expression that returns a data structure. + type: raw + required: true + indent: + description: Number of spaces to indent Python structures, mainly used for display to humans. + type: integer + sort_keys: + description: Affects sorting of dictionary keys. + default: True + type: bool + #allow_unicode: + # description: + # type: bool + # default: true + #default_style=None, canonical=None, width=None, line_break=None, encoding=None, explicit_start=None, explicit_end=None, version=None, tags=None + notes: + - More options may be available, see L(PyYAML documentation, https://pyyaml.org/wiki/PyYAMLDocumentation) for details. + - 'These parameters to C(yaml.dump) will be ignored, as they are overriden internally: I(default_flow_style)' + +EXAMPLES: | + # dump variable in a template to create a YAML document + {{ github_workflow | to_nice_yaml }} + +RETURN: + _value: + description: The YAML serialized string representing the variable structure inputted. + type: string |