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authorTim Way <1091435+timway@users.noreply.github.com>2023-04-20 14:01:22 -0500
committerGitHub <noreply@github.com>2023-04-20 15:01:22 -0400
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Vars Plugin Documentation Improvement (#80470)
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- vars_plugin_staging
'''
+At times a value provided by a vars plugin will contain unsafe values. The utility function `wrap_var` provided by `ansible.utils.unsafe_proxy` should be used to ensure that Ansible handles the variable and value correctly. The use cases for unsafe data is covered in :ref:`unsafe_strings`.
+
+.. code-block:: python
+
+ from ansible.plugins.vars import BaseVarsPlugin
+ from ansible.utils.unsafe_proxy import wrap_var
+
+ class VarsPlugin(BaseVarsPlugin):
+ def get_vars(self, loader, path, entities):
+ return dict(
+ something_unsafe=wrap_var("{{ SOMETHING_UNSAFE }}")
+ )
+
For example vars plugins, see the source code for the `vars plugins included with Ansible Core
<https://github.com/ansible/ansible/tree/devel/lib/ansible/plugins/vars>`_.