Hey Kai,
The thing is that is not a *dictionary* but *string*, pay attention to the
"|" after my_var:
my_var: |
{
"b": 1
"a": 2
}
So the question is still the same, why string is unordered in Ansible?
Thanks,
Eddie Mashayev
Cell : 054-4692519
On Tue, Nov 6, 2018 at 8:17 PM Eddie Mashayev <[email protected]> wrote:
> Thanks.
>
> On Tuesday, November 6, 2018 at 3:20:15 PM UTC+2, Eddie Mashayev wrote:
>>
>> Hey,
>>
>> I've this weird situation when I'm passing json(as a string) it still
>> reordering it's order and not consistent.
>>
>> Example:
>>
>> my_var: |
>> {
>> "b": 1
>> "a": 2
>> }
>>
>>
>> when running ansible with
>>
>> - name: "Set up json file"
>> copy:
>> dest: "/tmp/file.json"
>> content: "{{ my_var }}"
>>
>>
>> every ansible run the file is being changed(because json order is being
>> changed), in order to fix it I'm using:
>> content: "{{ my_var | from_json | to_nice_json }}"
>>
>> This command keeps the order the same each run, because to_nice_json
>> <https://github.com/ansible/ansible/blob/80d977bac65768bdd5cd675b9d1794640749431a/lib/ansible/plugins/filter/core.py#L85>
>> sorts the output (`sort_keys=True`).
>>
>> My question is why *my_var* is being changed all the time even it's a
>> string and *not* json
>>
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