Add item to list, creating list on demand

[jdmansour]

Hi, I would like to ensure that an item is in a list. For that I can use update: yes:

- name: Test
  hosts: [localhost]
  gather_facts: no

  roles:
    - kwoodson.yedit

  tasks:
  - name: Modify YAML
    yedit:
      content:
        foo: bar
        users:
          - alice
      key: users
      value: "bob"
      update: yes
      # append: yes
      state: present
    register: res

  - debug: var=res

However, this does not work when the list 'users' doesn't exist. It just succeeds without doing anything. If I use append: yes instead, it will create the list if neccessary. But then I get duplicates if the item does exist.

I think the source of this difference is that append has the following code, but update doesn't:

ansible-role-yedit/library/yedit.py

Lines 622 to 624 in 0ae7b9c

	if entry is None:
	self.put(path, [])
	entry = Yedit.get_entry(self.yaml_dict, path, self.separator)

Could this be added to update, or is there another way to achive this?