Ansible / BlockInFile / With_Items

blockinfile_with_items.yaml

- hosts: localhost
  connection: local
  gather_facts: false
  become: false

  tasks: 
    - blockinfile:
        dest: '/tmp/THE_FILE'
        block: |
          foo {{ item }} bar
        marker: "THE BLOCK MARKER FOR {{ item }}"
        with_items:
          - foo
          - bar
          - hello
          - world

error.md

$ ansible --version
ansible 2.2.0.0

Error message is:

$ ansible-playbook /tmp/t.playbook 

PLAY [localhost] ***************************************************************

TASK [blockinfile] *************************************************************
fatal: [localhost]: FAILED! => {"failed": true, "msg": "the field 'args' has an invalid value, which appears to include a variable that is undefined. The error was: 'item' is undefined\n\nThe error appears to have been in '/tmp/t.playbook': line 7, column 7, but may\nbe elsewhere in the file depending on the exact syntax problem.\n\nThe offending line appears to be:\n\n  tasks:\n    - blockinfile:\n      ^ here\n"}
        to retry, use: --limit @/tmp/t.retry

PLAY RECAP *********************************************************************
localhost                  : ok=0    changed=0    unreachable=0    failed=1