Since templating json can get messy another way to go about this is to
take your json configuration, express it as yaml in a var in ansible
and then do this in your template:
{{ app_settings | to_nice_json }}
On Sun, Jan 5, 2014 at 1:56 PM, Michael DeHaan <[email protected]> wrote:
> That's quite unsafe, JSON is not line oriented.
>
> It would probably be better to just template out the file to be like you
> want it to be.
>
>
> On Sun, Jan 5, 2014 at 8:12 AM, Guillaume DEDRIE
> <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>> Hi,
>> I'm looking for some help.
>>
>> I'm trying to edit with "lineinfile" module a JSON config file:
>>
>> - name: Task
>> lineinfile:
>> dest=/etc/pkg/settings.json
>> state=present
>> regexp='{{ item.key }}'
>> line='"{{ item.key }}": {{ item.value }}'
>> with_items:
>> - { key: 'setting1', value: 'true' }
>> - { key: 'setting2', value: '"value2"' }
>>
>>
>> But, ansible return an error:
>>
>> Note: The error may actually appear before this position: line x, column y
>>
>> regexp='{{ item.key }}'
>> line='"{{ item.key }}": {{ item.value }},'
>> ^
>> This one looks easy to fix. YAML thought it was looking for the start of
>> a
>> hash/dictionary and was confused to see a second "{". Most likely this
>> was
>> meant to be an ansible template evaluation instead, so we have to give the
>> parser a small hint that we wanted a string instead. The solution here is
>> to
>> just quote the entire value.
>>
>> For instance, if the original line was:
>>
>> app_path: {{ base_path }}/foo
>>
>> It should be written as:
>>
>> app_path: "{{ base_path }}/foo"
>>
>> Ansible failed to complete successfully. Any error output should be
>> visible above. Please fix these errors and try again.
>>
>>
>> I get an hotfix, using this template of key/value format:
>>
>> - {key: '"setting1":', value: true}
>> - {key: '"setting2":', value: '"value2"'}
>>
>>
>> Is there another way to do this?
>>
>> Regards,
>> Guillaume
>>
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