ansible.builtin.failed test – did the task fail

Note

This test plugin is part of ansible-core and included in all Ansible installations. In most cases, you can use the short plugin name failed. However, we recommend you use the Fully Qualified Collection Name (FQCN) ansible.builtin.failed for easy linking to the plugin documentation and to avoid conflicting with other collections that may have the same test plugin name.

Synopsis

  • Tests if task finished in failure, opposite of succeeded.
  • This test checks for the existence of a failed key in the input dictionary and that it is True if present.
  • Tasks that get skipped or not executed due to other failures (syntax, templating, unreachable host, etc) do not return a ‘failed’ status.

Aliases: failure

Input

This describes the input of the test, the value before is ansible.builtin.failed or is not ansible.builtin.failed.

Parameter

Comments

Input

dictionary / required

registered result from an Ansible task

Examples

# test 'status' to know how to respond
{{ taskresults is failed }}

Return Value

Key

Description

Return value

boolean

Returns True if the task was failed, False otherwise.

Returned: success

Authors

  • Ansible Core

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https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/collections/ansible/builtin/failed_test.html