ansible: using with_items with notify handler

Question

I want to pass a variable to a notification handler, but can\'t find anywhere be it here on SO, the docs or the issues in the github repo, how to do it. What I\'m doing is d

Answer 1

To update jarv's answer above, Ansible 2.5 replaces with_items with loop. When getting results, item by itself will not work. You will need to explicitly get the name, e.g., item.name.

- hosts: localhost
  tasks:
  - file:  >
      path=/tmp/{{ item }}
      state=directory
    register: files_created
    loop:
      - one
      - two
    notify: some_handler

  handlers:
    - name: "some_handler"
      shell: "echo {{ item.name }} has changed!"
      when: item.changed
      loop: files_created.results