Having the same issue with the unarchive module. Ansible release 2.0.0.2

For example the following task:

# Unzip the Postgres PrefPane to the Mac PrefPanes system directory
- name: unzip postgres prefpane to system prefpane dir
  unarchive: >
    src={{ ppfile_result.stdout | regex_replace(' ', '\ ') }}
    dest={{ macprefpane_dir }}
    copy=no
    owner=root
    group=admin
    mode=0644
  become: yes
  become_method: sudo
  when: >
    (ppdir_result.stat.isdir is undefined) or
    (ppver_result.stdout != ppfilever_result.stdout)

Causes the following error:

TASK [desktop/mac : include] ***************************************************
fatal: [zebra]: FAILED! => {"failed": true, "reason": "ERROR! this task 'unarchive' has extra params, which is only allowed in the following modules: command, shell, script, include, include_vars, add_host, group_by, set_fact, raw, meta\n\nThe error appears to have been in '/Users/eduardr/Developer/Work/Ansible/roles/desktop/mac/tasks/pgsql.yaml': line 158, column 3, but may\nbe elsewhere in the file depending on the exact syntax problem.\n\nThe offending line appears to be:\n\n# Unzip the Postgres PrefPane to the Mac PrefPanes system directory\n- name: unzip postgres prefpane to system prefpane dir\n  ^ here\n"}

PLAY RECAP *********************************************************************
zebra                      : ok=57   changed=6    unreachable=0    failed=1   

Also noticed the error output from Ansible now contains literal "\n" characters that are not properly interpreted by the Mac terminal, so the error messages display the error text all jumbled together.

@jimi-c I'm still having the same problem with ansible 2.0.1.0.

Not sure why reports of this aren't widespread though, maybe few people are using this multi-line style?

And don't know why unarchive in particular has this issue - I use the same multi-line style with many other modules with no problem.

@jimi-c Some further info after digging a bit more:

• Have had the issue with unarchive and file modules
• Issue workaround is to quote args that have {{ }} parameters. For example this doesn't work:

- name: unzip postgres prefpane to system prefpane dir
  unarchive: >
    src={{ ppfile_result.stdout | regex_replace(' ', '\ ') }}
    dest={{ macprefpane_dir }}

Adding quotes makes it work:

- name: unzip postgres prefpane to system prefpane dir
  unarchive: >
    src="{{ ppfile_result.stdout | regex_replace(' ', '\ ') }}"
    dest="{{ macprefpane_dir }}"

@feliksik it looks like we fixed your issue here already, at least what I'm seeing in devel and stable-2.0.

@edrozenberg the patch above appears to resolve your issue, just waiting for tests to pass to confirm it doesn't introduce any other bugs.

Merged the above into both devel and stable-2.0, so this will be included with 2.0.2.

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Thank you!

Thank you. It works now.