From 0c1395ed2fe9fff55f1da112f183f38fc117a0cb Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Kamal Wood Date: Mon, 15 Feb 2016 14:06:21 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] Documenting that values passed in using the extra-vars 'key=value' syntax are interpreted as strings. --- docsite/rst/playbooks_variables.rst | 3 +++ 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+) diff --git a/docsite/rst/playbooks_variables.rst b/docsite/rst/playbooks_variables.rst index 122c0ef9232..47277b0bce9 100644 --- a/docsite/rst/playbooks_variables.rst +++ b/docsite/rst/playbooks_variables.rst @@ -730,6 +730,9 @@ As of Ansible 1.2, you can also pass in extra vars as quoted JSON, like so:: The ``key=value`` form is obviously simpler, but it's there if you need it! +.. note:: Values passed in using the ``key=value`` syntax are interpreted as strings. + Use the JSON format if you need to pass in anything that shouldn't be a string (Booleans, integers, floats, lists etc). + As of Ansible 1.3, extra vars can be loaded from a JSON file with the ``@`` syntax:: --extra-vars "@some_file.json"