You are just giving your curl command the python data structure of
`eck_logs` and effectively you get a text representation of the data which
includes the `u` prefix to indicate Unicode.
You likely want to do the following instead:
{{ eck_logs|to_json }}
To output the data in JSON format.
On Sat, Oct 21, 2017 at 10:23 AM wildfan <tsheri...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I have wasted way too much time on this seemingly simple solution, and was
> looking for some help.
>
> We have a Tower job to deploy AWS cloudwatch and configure the logs to
> monitor that is kicked off via a callback. I use the following curl-
>
> The callback is:
> curl -f -k -H 'Content-Type: application/json' -XPOST -d '{"host_config_key":
> "xxxxx", "extra_vars": "{\"logs\":{{ eck_logs }},\"env_stage\":\"dev\"}"}'
> "https://tower.xxxx.net:443/api/v1/job_templates/xx/callback/";
>
> Which expands to
> "curl -f -k -H 'Content-Type: application/json' -XPOST -d
> '{\"host_config_key\": \"xxx\", \"extra_vars\":
> \"{\\\"logs\\\":\\\"[{u'file': u'/apps/app1/shared/logs/catalina.out',
> u'group_name': u'/on-premise/app1/container'}, {u'file':
> u'/apps/app1/shared/logs/app1-webapp.log', u'group_name':
> u'/on-premise/app1-webapp/applog'}]\\\",\\\"env_stage\\\":\\\"dev\\\"}\"}'
> \"https://tower.xxx.net:443/api/v1/job_templates/xx/callback/\"";..
>
> The eck_logs variable looks like
> "eck_logs": [
> {
> "file": "/apps/app1/shared/logs/catalina.out",
> "group_name": "/on-premise/app1/container"
> },
> {
> "file": "/apps/app1/shared/logs/app1-webapp.log",
> "group_name": "/on-premise/app1/applog"
> }
> ]
>
> The issue i am running into is, i believe all about quoting.. as it is
> currently, it will pass the variable to the Tower job, however it tacks on
> the "u" for unicode to the variable resulting in:
>
> logs:
> - ugroup_name: u/on-premise/app1-webapp/container
> ufile: u/apps/app1/shared/logs/catalina.out
> - ugroup_name: u/on-premise/app1/applog
> ufile: u/apps/app1/shared/logs/app1-webapp.log
>
>
>
> when i quote the eck_logs variable in the curl command, i then instead get-
>
> command:
> curl -f -k -H 'Content-Type: application/json' -XPOST -d
> '{"host_config_key": "xxx", "extra_vars": "{\"logs\":\"{{ eck_logs
> }}\",\"env_stage\":\"dev\"}"}' "
> https://tower.xxx.net:443/api/v1/job_templates/xxx/callback/";
>
> result
> "curl -f -k -H 'Content-Type: application/json' -XPOST -d
> '{\"host_config_key\": \"xxx\", \"extra_vars\":
> \"{\\\"logs\\\":\\\"[{u'file': u'/apps/app1/shared/logs/catalina.out',
> u'group_name': u'/on-premise/app1/container'}, {u'file':
> u'/apps/app1/shared/logs/app1-webapp.log', u'group_name':
> u'/on-premise/app1-webapp/applog'}]\\\",\\\"env_stage\\\":\\\"dev\\\"}\"}'
> \"https://tower.xxx.net:443/api/v1/job_templates/xxx/callback/\"";
>
> Variable on Tower:
> logs: >-
> [{ufile: u/apps/app1/shared/logs/catalina.out, ugroup_name:
> u/on-premise/app1/container}, {ufile:
> u/apps/app1/shared/logs/app1-webapp.log, ugroup_name:
> u/on-premise/app1/applog}]
>
>
>
> I have tried seemingly every filter, quoting, escaping I can and i can't
> get the desired variable value when passing tower..
>
> I am looking for the results in my first example for the logs variable
> (list), but without the leading "u" getting added to the values..
>
> I realize this might be a mixture of a jinja/ansible question , but does
> anyone have any ideas on what i can try to fix this?
>
> Thanks in advance!
>
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