Sort of. set_fact doesn't have anything to coerce string inputs and will
result in you storing a string.
However, you can use {{ result.stdout | from_json }} anywhere you want the
datastructure.
On Fri, Mar 21, 2014 at 8:29 AM, Matt Martz <[email protected]> wrote:
> You should be able to use that json by doing something like:
>
> - debug: msg="{{ (result.stdout|from_json).ipaddress }}"
>
> If you wanted to try to turn the whole thing into an accessible data type,
> you could probably use set_fact:
>
> - set_fact:
> some_new_var: "{{ result.stdout|from_json }}"
>
> --
> Matt Martz
> [email protected]
>
> On March 21, 2014 at 12:10:26 AM, Jinsik Kim ([email protected]) wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I am a newbie in this wonderful tool Ansible.
> I made a playbook script to test it.
>
> But I found that sometimes I need to parse the stdout of each task.
>
> For instance
>
> - name : run and get the result in JSON format on stdout
> shell : "/usr/local/something"
> register : result
>
>
> Let's see result.stdout
>
> {u'name':u'test1', u'ipaddress':'xxx.xxx.xxx.xx', u'pass':'asdfasfd'}
>
> Can I extract these three elements(name, ipaddress, pass) from stdout and
> use it on another task?
>
> I think lot of users experienced this issue because the return
> values(stdout) of tools are not simple sometimes
>
> Even if I have a plan to make another Module I think it's tough because I
> should pass the three elements.
> (Unfortunately I am not good at Python yet)
>
>
> Thanks in advance!
>
> -Justin
>
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