Output of changed_when: true is green

[Pierre-Henry Muller]

Hi,
Very compact callback plugin, thanks.

I use actionable by default which filters messages without changes. When I need to visualize information I use a task like this one:

- debug:
  msg: "{{variable}}"
changed_when: true

But with this callback debug message with changed_when true is always in ok state not on changed state.

Other little question, there is an option to filter ok state like in actionnable? When I launch playbook on many hosts there is too much ok state.

Thanks

[Pierre Baillet]

Hello @pierrehenrymuller ,

I have created #13 to track you second demand.

As for your first issue, I would like to understand that a bit better:

You would like this:

- debug:
  msg: "{{variable}}"
changed_when: true

To actually display the variable everytime?

As a starter, could you give me a simple playbook and the actual vs expected output? Thanks!

[Pierre-Henry Muller]

Hi @octplane,
Thanks for take this request.

By default Ansible without callback print all actions, ok in green, changed in yellow, skip in blue.
When we enable "stdout_callback = actionable" in ansible.cfg one of standard callback plugin, all OK or skipped action are not printed. Only changed and summary at the end.

With this behaviour, most code use changed_when to switch on stdout of information or action.

In my exemple with debug and callback set to actionable we can see result.

- hosts: all
  gather_facts: no  
  tasks:
    - local_action:
        module: debug
        msg: "test debug not printed"
    - local_action:
        module: debug
        msg: "test debug printed"
      changed_when: true

With actionable we have this in changed yellow mode :

changed: [hostname -> localhost] => {
    "msg": "test debug printed"
}

PLAY RECAP *************************************************************************************************************************************************************************
hostname : ok=2    changed=1    unreachable=0    failed=0

But with anstomlog I have more informations and it's in green text seems like OK mode but it's changed in summary :

[18:10:41] debug | hostname -> localhost | SUCCESS | 55ms
{
  - msg: test debug not printed
  - _ansible_delegated_vars: {
    - ansible_delegated_host: localhost
    - ansible_host: localhost
  }
}
[18:10:41] debug | hostname -> localhost | SUCCESS | 55ms
{
  - msg: test debug printed
  - _ansible_delegated_vars: {
    - ansible_delegated_host: localhost
    - ansible_host: localhost
  }
}
[18:10:42] system | -- Play recap --
hostname : ok=2    changed=1    unreachable=0    failed=0

I would expect to have only changed status with filter for ok message with yellow color for changed status only :

[18:10:41] debug | hostname -> localhost | SUCCESS | 55ms
{ msg: test debug printed }
[18:10:41] system | -- Play recap --
hostname : ok=1    changed=1    unreachable=0    failed=0

If it possible to make changed status in yellow color, option to filter OK status without changed and more compact output for debug to see only msg variable?

[Pierre Baillet]

Hello,

I have pushed a changeset to removes the ansible_ fields from the output in your case. The final output is not exactly what you are asking for, but this is very close. I've added a "test-case" test-12.yml that gives this output when run from main: