[Ansible 2.2] with_fileglob emits warning, fails to glob

[mgedmin]

ISSUE TYPE

• Bug Report

COMPONENT NAME

with_fileglob

ANSIBLE VERSION

ansible 2.2.0 (devel 6f678e36d6) last updated 2016/08/23 09:52:36 (GMT +300)
  lib/ansible/modules/core: (devel 91a839f1e3) last updated 2016/08/18 20:46:51 (GMT +300)
  lib/ansible/modules/extras: (detached HEAD 1aeb9f8a8c) last updated 2016/08/23 09:03:03 (GMT +300)
  config file = 
  configured module search path = Default w/o overrides

OS / ENVIRONMENT

Ubuntu 16.04

SUMMARY

My role task that uses with_fileglob: [ prefix-* ] fails to match files in role/files/prefix-* and emits a warning. Here's the task:

# roles/fridge/tasks/triggers.yml
- name: /usr/local/sbin/pov-trigger-* scripts
  copy: src={{ item }} dest=/usr/local/sbin/{{ item|basename }} mode=0755
  tags: triggers
  with_fileglob:
    - pov-trigger-*

Here's what in roles/fridge/files/:

$ ls roles/fridge/files/pov-trigger-*
roles/fridge/files/pov-trigger-root-tasks  roles/fridge/files/pov-trigger-update-fridge.pov.lt

Here's the ansible output:

TASK [fridge : /usr/local/sbin/pov-trigger-* scripts] **************************
 [WARNING]: Invalid request to find a file that matches an empty string or "null" value

This used to work fine in Ansible 2.1.1.0.

STEPS TO REPRODUCE

# test.yml
- hosts: localhost
  gather_facts: no
  tasks:
    - debug: msg={{ item }}
      with_fileglob:
        - prfx-*

$ tree
.
├── files
│   ├── prfx-a
│   ├── prfx-b
│   └── unrelated
├── Makefile
└── test.yml

$ ansible-playbook -i localhost, test.yml

EXPECTED RESULTS

PLAY [localhost] ***************************************************************

TASK [debug] *******************************************************************
ok: [localhost] => (item=/home/mg/src/bugs/ansible-bug-17192/files/prfx-a) => {
    "item": "/home/mg/src/bugs/ansible-bug-17192/files/prfx-a", 
    "msg": "/home/mg/src/bugs/ansible-bug-17192/files/prfx-a"
}
ok: [localhost] => (item=/home/mg/src/bugs/ansible-bug-17192/files/prfx-b) => {
    "item": "/home/mg/src/bugs/ansible-bug-17192/files/prfx-b", 
    "msg": "/home/mg/src/bugs/ansible-bug-17192/files/prfx-b"
}

PLAY RECAP *********************************************************************
localhost                  : ok=1    changed=0    unreachable=0    failed=0   

ACTUAL RESULTS

PLAY [localhost] ***************************************************************

TASK [debug] *******************************************************************
 [WARNING]: Invalid request to find a file that matches an empty string or "null" value


PLAY RECAP *********************************************************************
localhost                  : ok=0    changed=0    unreachable=0    failed=0   

[mgedmin]

AFAICT fileglob with subdir/pattern works fine, but fileglob without a subdir is broken.

[jimi-c]

Closing This Ticket

Hi!

We believe the above commit should resolve this problem for you. This will also be included in the next release.

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Because this project is very active, we're unlikely to see comments made on closed tickets, but the mailing list is a great way to ask questions, or post if you don't think this particular issue is resolved.

Thank you!

[biroeng]

We really need to clarify by example how to resolve this issue
We need to tell you have to specify , from where you run playbook , and look to the file in reference to the command