Merge pull request #1093 from brainpage/make_local_action_consistant

2 improvements to delegate_to

lib/ansible/playbook/task.py

@@ -61,12 +61,18 @@ class Task(object):
         elif 'local_action' in ds:
             self.action      = ds.get('local_action', '')
             self.delegate_to = '127.0.0.1'
-            self.transport   = 'local'
         else:
             self.action      = ds.get('action', '')
             self.delegate_to = ds.get('delegate_to', None)
             self.transport   = ds.get('transport', play.transport)
 
+        # delegate_to can use variables
+        if not (self.delegate_to is None):
+	        self.delegate_to = utils.template(None, self.delegate_to, self.module_vars)
+	        # delegate_to: localhost should use local transport
+	        if self.delegate_to in ['127.0.0.1', 'localhost']:
+	            self.transport   = 'local'
+
         # notified by is used by Playbook code to flag which hosts
         # need to run a notifier
         self.notified_by = []