Have the Following Playbook Which Returns the following
ok: [localhost] => {
“mdb.json”: [
{
“mac-address”: “xx:xx:xx:xx:xx”
}
]
}
Something like this would work I believe:
“{{ mdb.json.split(‘:’)[1:6] | join(‘:’) }}”
Also, could you not just reference it directly by using “{{ mdb.json.mac-address }}”?
When i do Both
“{{ mdb.json.mac-address }}”
“{{ mdb.json.split(‘:’)[1:6] | join(‘:’) }}”
It returns
fatal: [localhost]: FAILED! => {“msg”: “The task includes an option with an undefined variable. The error was: ‘list object’ has no attribute ‘mac’\n\nThe error appears to be in ‘/srv/Ansible/mdb.yaml’: line 8, column 5, but may\nbe elsewhere in the file depending on the exact syntax problem.\n\nThe offending line appears to be:\n\n register: mdb\n - debug:\n ^ here\n”}
fatal: [localhost]: FAILED! => {“msg”: “The task includes an option with an undefined variable. The error was: ‘list object’ has no attribute ‘split’\n\nThe error appears to be in ‘/srv/Ansible/mdb.yaml’: line 8, column 5, but may\nbe elsewhere in the file depending on the exact syntax problem.\n\nThe offending line appears to be:\n\n register: mdb\n - debug:\n ^ here\n”}
What’s your plabook look like? You’ll probably have to loop through your JSON results as it looks like it’s a list.
Ok, try this then:
- debug:
msg: “{{ item.mac-address }}”
loop: “{{ mdb.json }}”
Have the Following Playbook Which Returns the following
ok: [localhost] => {
"mdb.json": [
The [ is telling us that mdb.json is a list, the fist element in a list i 0.
{
"mac-address": "xx:xx:xx:xx:xx"
}
]
}
<snip />
- debug:
msg: "{{ mdb.json.split(':') }}"What i would like to Return is just
"msg": "xx:xx:xx:xx:xx"
That would be {{ mdb.json.0['mac-address'] }}
because of the dash in mac-address you need to use notation and not the dot notation on that one.
Thanks Kai,
that worked i was also able to Split(‘-’)[0] and that only outputted the xxx:xxx:xxx:xx just what i was looking for.