Ansible playbook --extra-var with dot in json key

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Hi All,

I need to pass a json file to ansible-palybook command using --extra-var (like --extra-var @/tmp/test.json). I am able to reference the variable inside playbook if the json key don’t have dot character in it. But I am not able reference the key which contain dot(.) in it. This is just sample entry in JSOn file but I have many keys which contain dot(.) in key name and I can’t remove the dot char in the key name because the file coming from external system.

# cat /tmp/test.json | jq
{
  "VMware.Hardware.Version": " vmx-10",

  "toolname": "tomcat"

}



Playbook:



# cat test.yml 

---

host: myhost

vars:

  hdversion: "{{ VMware.Hardware.Version }}" # not works due to dot(.), getting VARIABLE NOT DEFINED when try to reference hdversion inside role

  mytoolname: "{{toolname}}"  # works fine



any workaround to use hdversion: "{{ VMware.Hardware.Version }}" to get the value? 

Any advise or guidance would be greatly appreciated.
2

This should work
   {{ vars['VMware.Hardware.Version'] }}

3

Oh. That helps. Thank you very much.