Commit 8c7828d4 by James Cammarata

Tweaking error message resulting from undefined template variables

Fixes #5114
parent 846933dd
......@@ -338,7 +338,10 @@ def template_from_string(basedir, data, vars, fail_on_undefined=False):
res = jinja2.utils.concat(rf)
except TypeError, te:
if 'StrictUndefined' in str(te):
raise errors.AnsibleUndefinedVariable("unable to look up a name or access an attribute in template string")
raise errors.AnsibleUndefinedVariable(
"Unable to look up a name or access an attribute in template string. " + \
"Make sure your variable name does not contain invalid characters like '-'."
)
else:
raise errors.AnsibleError("an unexpected type error occured. Error was %s" % te)
return res
......
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