async attribute no longer works for include_task

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SUMMARY

Setting async attribute no longer works on include_tasks. Replacing include_tasks with include will fix the issues.

ISSUE TYPE

• Bug Report

COMPONENT NAME

include_tasks

ANSIBLE VERSION

ansible 2.8.0
  config file = /etc/ansible/ansible.cfg
  configured module search path = ['/home/darko/.ansible/plugins/modules', '/usr/share/ansible/plugins/modules']
  ansible python module location = /usr/lib/python3.7/site-packages/ansible
  executable location = /usr/bin/ansible
  python version = 3.7.3 (default, Mar 26 2019, 21:43:19) [GCC 8.2.1 20181127]

CONFIGURATION

OS / ENVIRONMENT

Arch Linux

STEPS TO REPRODUCE

ansible-playbook async.yml

async.yml

---
- hosts: localhost
  tasks:
    - name: async task
      include_tasks: "included.yml"
      async: 600
...

included.yml

---
- name: test connection
  ping:
...

EXPECTED RESULTS

Playbook executes without error like in older versions of ansible.

ACTUAL RESULTS

ERROR! 'async' is not a valid attribute for a TaskInclude

The error appears to be in 'async.yml': line 4, column 7, but may
be elsewhere in the file depending on the exact syntax problem.

The offending line appears to be:

  tasks:
    - name: async task
      ^ here

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Files identified in the description:

• lib/ansible/modules/utilities/logic/include_tasks.py

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[bcoca]

Possible Misunderstanding

Hi!

Thanks very much for your submission to Ansible. It sincerely means a lot to us.

We believe the ticket you have filed is being somewhat misunderstood, as one thing works a little differently than stated.

The async keyword never worked with include_tasks and was silently ignored, in 2.8 we added an explicit error to warn the playbook authors about that fact.

In the future, this might be a topic more well suited for the user list, which you can also post here if you'd like some more help with the above.

• https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/ansible-project

Thank you once again for this and your interest in Ansible!