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Partial-Solution: Messed around with the JMESPath syntax and was able to successfully get a match for the first test case (without the optional variable) using:
jmesquery: "{{ datacenter }}{{ subcategory }}.{{ refine_hosts }}.[*][].[*][][]"
I am writing an Ansible Playbook that takes a list of hosts from a network server, parses the JSON list, and finds hostnames that matches the user's input when they deploy the playbook as a Jenkin's Job through it's API.
The issue I am encountering is that I am unable to successfully query the JSON host list. Currently, I am only trying to run the following test case:
datacenter: a
subcategory: bc
refine_hosts: QA
However, the final version of this playbook should be able to take in values for datacenter
, subcategory
, and refine_hosts
with an optional input value of host_type
. An example test case including the optional input value would be the following:
datacenter: a
subcategory: bc
refine_hosts: QA
host_type: WEBSITE
In my playbook, I am using JMESPath within the following task:
- name: Build HOSTS list
set_fact:
hosts_list: "{{ jsondata | json_query(jmesquery) }}"
vars:
jmesquery: '%