Thank you so much. It's been hard trying to find any documentation on
this. Any links to good docs about this topic? I feel like I'll be
playing around a lot with json, arrays, and uri module in Ansible.
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On Friday, April 17, 2015 at 1:59:36 PM UTC-7, Matt Martz wrote:
>
> This isn't tested, but I believe it would look something like:
>
> "{{ reg_endpoint2.json.array_with_many_elements +
> [reg_endpoint1.json.id_list[0].id] }}"
>
> You need to perform the concatenation inside of a single {{ }}
>
> On Fri, Apr 17, 2015 at 3:43 PM, Michael Liu <[email protected]
> <javascript:>> wrote:
>
>> I'm having an issue adding an element to an array. What i need to do
>> is...
>>
>> 1) get an array list of IDs from an api using the uri module (no issues
>> here)
>> 2) add an element to this array (issue here!)
>> 3) send a PUT with the updated array using uri (no issues here)
>>
>> ====tasks start====
>>
>> - name: get data from endpoint 1
>> uri: url=https://someapi.com/endpoint1.json method=GET
>> HEADER_api_key="xxxxxxxxxxxx"
>> register: reg_endpoint1
>>
>> - name: get data from endpoint 2
>> uri: url=https://someapi.com/endpoint2.json method=GET
>> HEADER_api_key="xxxxxxxxxxxx"
>> register: reg_endpoint2
>>
>> - name: make an array element from id from endpoint 1, then add this to
>> endpoint 2 array, save as updated_array
>> set_fact: updated_array="{{ reg_endpoint2.json.array_with_many_elements
>> }} + [ {{ reg_endpoint1.json.id_list[0].id }} ]"
>>
>> - name: put data with updated_array
>> uri:
>> method=PUT
>> url=https://someapi.com/endpoint3.json
>> HEADER_api_key="xxxxxxxxxxxx"
>> HEADER_Content-Type="application/json"
>> body={{ lookup('template','/full/path/to/file.json.j2') }}
>>
>> ====tasks end====
>>
>>
>> ====/full/path/to/file.json.j2====
>>
>> '{
>> "something1": {
>> "otherthing2": {
>> "thatotherthing3": {{ updated_array }}
>> }
>> }
>> }'
>>
>> ==========================
>>
>>
>> My output error contains:
>>
>> <server1> REMOTE_MODULE uri method=PUT url=
>> https://someapi.com/endpoint3.json HEADER_api_key="xxxxxxxxxxxx"
>> HEADER_Content-Type="application/json" body='{
>> "something1": { "otherthing2": { "thatotherthing3": [13651171, 13651172] +
>> [ 12994448 ] } } }'
>>
>>
>> As you can see the array is malformed from the set_fact task:
>>
>> [13651171, 13651172] + [ 12994448 ]
>>
>> Question:
>> How do I make {{ updated_array }} look like this:
>>
>> [13651171, 13651172, 12994448 ]
>>
>> Thanks!
>>
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