How to extract war file on target using ansible

Question

I'm using unarchive module of Ansible and that doesn't seem to be working to extract the war file. It works fine for .tar.

There's also a switch setype: "type part of SELinux file context" that I'm not sure if can be used to set the type of file as war.

I tried this:

-name: Unpack war
 unarchive: src=~/wars/mywar.war
            dest=/tmp/deploy
            setype=war
            copy=no

it gives error: msg: Failed to find handler to unarchive. Make sure the required command to extract the file is installed.

When I don't use 'setype' I get exact same error again.

How can I extract war file using Ansible?

Solution

You should be able to unarchive a .war file using Ansible. Are you sure that 'unzip' is installed & the 'unzip' command available on your target system?

As per Ansible Documentation: "requires gtar/unzip command on target host"

Comments

[Mxx]

also regular zip/unzip. But from what I read, war/jar files are essentially zips...

[Bruce P]

They are essentially zip files but they use the jar command to pack/unpack them rather than the unzip/untar/gunzip command. The ansible module would need to be modified to support using the jar command when war files are specified in order to support unpacking them.

[Martin M.]

I proposed an earlier solution saying exactly this. It is wrong :) ansible -i ../inventory/hosts local -m unarchive -a "src=zip-content.war dest=./extracted" -v (war file created with zip -r ... from the command line) -- I can't comment on the actual error the OP has.

[trainmaster]

You can also run ansible with parameter -vvv to get a more verbose output - that usually tells you what the problem is.