Merge pull request #459 from dhozac/with_items-variable

Allow a variable in with_items

lib/ansible/utils.py

@@ -201,7 +201,7 @@ def parse_json(data):
 
 _LISTRE = re.compile(r"(\w+)\[(\d+)\]")
 
-def varLookup(name, vars):
+def _varLookup(name, vars):
     ''' find the contents of a possibly complex variable in vars. '''
     path = name.split('.')
     space = vars
@@ -223,6 +223,12 @@ def varLookup(name, vars):
 _KEYCRE = re.compile(r"\$(?P<complex>\{){0,1}((?(complex)[\w\.\[\]]+|\w+))(?(complex)\})")
 #                        if { -> complex     if complex, allow . and need trailing }
 
+def varLookup(varname, vars):
+    m = _KEYCRE.search(varname)
+    if not m:
+        return None
+    return _varLookup(m.group(2), vars)
+
 def varReplace(raw, vars):
     '''Perform variable replacement of $vars
 
@@ -245,7 +251,7 @@ def varReplace(raw, vars):
         # original)
         varname = m.group(2)
 
-        replacement = unicode(varLookup(varname, vars) or m.group())
+        replacement = unicode(_varLookup(varname, vars) or m.group())
 
         start, end = m.span()
         done.append(raw[:start])    # Keep stuff leading up to token