Ansible iterate over hash with condition

Question

I have a fixed structure of vars that I need to use. Those files should already be on the destination server. There one specific case, where someone adds a template entry for file which is not on the destination server.

 I would like to secure my playbook against this case. The biggest issue here for me is finding a way of either writing it in one with_subelements statement or iterating with_subelements over 2 tasks.

My vars structure

artifacts:
  - name: demo
    version: v1
 templates:
      - source: "/opt/source/file.txt"
        destination: "/opt/destination/file.txt"

 I would now like to iterate over this structure as in the next snippet:

- name: "Archive files"
  synchronize:
    src: "{{ item.1.destination }}"
    dest: "/some/backup/dir/"
    archive: yes
  delegate_to: "{{ inventory_hostname }}"
  when: item[1].destination.isfile
  with_subelements:
    - "{{ artifacts }}"
    - templates

Answer 1

Your when statement is wrong.

you either split it into two tasks like stat + archive...

Or just add --ignore-missing-args if you don't care about missing files, like:

- name: "Archive files"
  synchronize:
    src: "{{ item.1.destination }}"
    dest: "/some/backup/dir/"
    archive: yes
    rsync_opts: ['--ignore-missing-args']
  delegate_to: "{{ inventory_hostname }}"
  with_subelements:
    - "{{ artifacts }}"
    - templates