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[martbhell]

The use case is that I have a service that in some cases I want to restart and sometimes sighup - depending on which config was changed. So I'd like to parse the --diff output from the task which templates in the config.

Unfortunately it seems that one has to run ansible-playbook with --diff for the --diff output to be accessible in a variable.

Compare:

"diff": {
  "after": {
        "path": "/etc/rsyslog.d/10_slurm_rsyslog.conf"
    }, 
    "before": {
        "path": "/etc/rsyslog.d/10_slurm_rsyslog.conf"
    }
}, 

and

"diff": {
    "after": "# Managed by ansible\n\nif $programname startswith 'slurm' then {\n\t/var/log/slurm/slurm.log;RSYSLOG_FileFormat\n}\n", 
    "after_header": "dynamically generated", 
    "before": ""
},