AWX Surveys do not support dictionary variables about awx HOT 5 OPEN

thanks for outlining these details. I guess one workaround for now is to use a non-dictionary variable for those variables you want set by the survey form

@mabashian do you know if the expectation is the survey value to be injected into a dictionary? is this fixed in the new UI?

New UI? I'm currently at the latest version of AWX.

The problem with workaround is that'll require me to modify the code for playbooks which haven't been written by me.

The expectation is for the values to be injected into the dictionary yes. inputs.a.b should translate to:

inputs:
  a:
     b:

Furthermore, the dictionary should be merged into any existing ones if ANSIBLE_HASH_BEHAVIOUR is set to merge.

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Also found this to be true. The default values appear in the survey summary and can be curl'd, but they don't pre-populate in the survey.

The workaround provided by @fosterseth isn't suitable for me either, as the playbook was written by someone else. I could go through the process of opening a PR and changing all their variables to strings... but with a lot of variables, that's kinda rough and the author may not like that.

I know there's a new UI coming soon, is this is being worked on? I took a peak at the tech preview, but the survey screen is unavailable at the moment, so it's hard to tell.

Thanks!

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thanks for outlining these details. I guess one workaround for now is to use a non-dictionary variable for those variables you want set by the survey form

@mabashian do you know if the expectation is the survey value to be injected into a dictionary? is this fixed in the new UI?

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@ksharma-qc thanks, yes sounds like a bug that would need some UI work to address

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Just discovered this issue and without even knowing it, I have this problem and didn't realize it was due the variable to set being a dict key. in my case module_database.name

I thought there was a bug in the UI for having require: true, so un-checked it for the survey question and now the survey gives no errors and the job template runs as it should. I just can't make the question mandatory.

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