RobL,
Can you use ansible's regex_replace jinja filter in test.j2 to turn
surrounding single quotes to double quotes? e.g.
regex_replace('^[\'"]?(.*)[\'"]?$','"\\1"')
```
{
"keepDoubleQuotes": {{ keepDoubleQuotes |
regex_replace('^[\'"]?(.*)[\'"]?$','"\\1"') }},
"loseDoubleQuotes": {{ loseDoubleQuotes |
regex_replace('^[\'"]?(.*)[\'"]?$','"\\1"')}}
}
```
I didn't test that the matching single quote is escaped with \
See also ansible's regex_filter
On Friday, May 2, 2014 11:17:17 AM UTC-5, RobL wrote:
>
> https://gist.github.com/anonymous/1ca1385f46a688ed2561
>
> The output I see is:
> "loseDoubleQuotes": [{'name2': 'value2nestedValue'}]
>
> What I expect to see is:
> "loseDoubleQuotes": [{"name2": "value2nestedValue"}]
>
> Thanks for looking.
>
> Rob
>
> On Thursday, May 1, 2014 2:25:41 PM UTC-7, Michael DeHaan wrote:
>>
>> This is hard for me to follow where you have defined these variables, how
>> about sharing everything in a gist?
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> On Wed, Apr 30, 2014 at 3:02 PM, RobL <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi:
>>>
>>> I'm trying to use the template module to create a JSON file.
>>>
>>> I'm hitting an issue where some of my double-quotes are converting to
>>> single quotes. Is there a way to ensure that Jinja2 won't do this
>>> conversion? Notice how output.json has double-quotes for the first
>>> variable but single-quotes for the second variable. I've tried various
>>> ways of quoting, both in the template and in values.json.
>>>
>>> Sample hitting the issue:
>>>
>>> output.json:
>>> {
>>> "keepDoubleQuotes": [ {"name": "value"} ],
>>> "loseDoubleQuotes": [{'name2': 'value2nestedValue'}]
>>> }
>>>
>>> test/tasks/main.yml:
>>> ---
>>> - name: dbg
>>> debug: var=keepDoubleQuotes
>>>
>>> - name: dbg2
>>> debug: var=loseDoubleQuotes
>>>
>>> - name: template
>>> template: src="test.j2"
>>> dest="/var/tmp/output.json"
>>>
>>> test/templates/test.j2:
>>> {
>>> "keepDoubleQuotes": {{ keepDoubleQuotes}},
>>> "loseDoubleQuotes": {{ loseDoubleQuotes}}
>>> }
>>>
>>> test/values.json:
>>> {
>>> keepDoubleQuotes: '[
>>> {"name": "value"}
>>> ]',
>>> "nestedVar": "nestedValue",
>>> loseDoubleQuotes: '[
>>> { "name2": "value2{{ nestedVar }}" }
>>> ]',
>>> }
>>>
>>> command line:
>>> ansible-playbook -e "@test/values.json" -vvvv ./test.yml
>>>
>>> Output:
>>> TASK: [test | dbg]
>>> ************************************************************
>>> ok: [...] => {
>>> "item": "",
>>> "keepDoubleQuotes": [
>>> {
>>> "name": "value"
>>> }
>>> ]
>>> }
>>>
>>> TASK: [test | dbg2]
>>> ***********************************************************
>>> ok: [...] => {
>>> "item": "",
>>> "loseDoubleQuotes": [
>>> {
>>> "name2": "value2nestedValue"
>>> }
>>> ]
>>> }
>>>
>>>
>>>
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