Thank you! That fixed the problem.
On Friday, May 2, 2014 12:15:38 PM UTC-7, Michael DeHaan wrote:
>
> Just as a quick PSA, you can actually use YAML for parameters passed in to
> "-e @test/values" if you like.
>
> In the above example, nestedVar is expressed as a string, but that string
> actually contains no quotes, so that's why you are not seeing quotes there.
>
> The easiest suggestion here if you are trying to write a datastructure as
> json, is to have a template that is exactly this:
>
> {{ datastructure | to_json }}
>
> And it will do the right thing and use the kind of quoting that JSON
> entails.
>
> This also has the added benefit of keeping everything in nice pure
> datastructures and not having to write something in a format for a
> particular datastructure.
>
> By no means should you have to worry about regex replacements to solve
> this, that would be horribly painful :)
>
>
>
>
> On Fri, May 2, 2014 at 12:17 PM, RobL <[email protected] <javascript:>>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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