This is untested, but here is how to do that with jinja2 using built in
filters:
(some_var|selectattr('type', 'equalto',
'org.artifactory.repo.cleanup.IntegrationCleanupJob')|first)['state']
selectattr always returns a generator/list.
http://jinja.pocoo.org/docs/dev/templates/#selectattr
http://jinja.pocoo.org/docs/dev/templates/#equalto
http://jinja.pocoo.org/docs/dev/templates/#first
On Mon, Mar 28, 2016 at 10:55 AM, Guy Matz <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hello! I get JSON like the following returned from a REST API:
>
> {
> "tasks" : [ {
> "id" :
> "artifactory.VirtualCacheCleanupJob#9e6619bd-1864-4e1a-9fd7-8bb138813bf1",
> "type" : "org.artifactory.repo.cleanup.VirtualCacheCleanupJob",
> "state" : "scheduled",
> "description" : "Virtual Repositories Cache Cleanup"
> }, {
> "id" :
> "artifactory.ArtifactCleanupJob#63053617-894c-4099-a897-caf5b1a3abd2",
> "type" : "org.artifactory.repo.cleanup.ArtifactCleanupJob",
> "state" : "scheduled",
> "description" : "Remote Repositories Cached Artifacts Cleanup"
> }, {
> "id" :
> "artifactory.IntegrationCleanupJob#517e5d53-a183-4a18-abe4-b81e1136398d",
> "type" : "org.artifactory.repo.cleanup.IntegrationCleanupJob",
> "state" : "scheduled",
> "description" : "Integration/Snapshot Versions Cleanup"
> } ]
> }
>
> "tasks" is a list, and I need to get the "state" of one of the entries in
> this list. I can't depend on the list staying in this order so I can't use
> an index to get the element I want. I can get the element I need in shell
> using a jq query:
> jq '.tasks[] | select(.type ==
> "org.artifactory.repo.cleanup.IntegrationCleanupJob").state'
>
> which gets the "state" for the specific type. Anyone know of an easy way
> to do this in ansible? I'm about to write a custom filter, but thought
> there might be a more concise way. I'd rather not use jq with the command
> module, although I guess I could do that too.
>
> Thanks!
> Guy
>
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