# Formatting the dict items with debug **URL:** \ **Category:** Ansible Project\ **Created:** [October 14, 2023, 8:01am UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/formatting-the-dict-items-with-debug/38520 "2023-10-14T08:01:28Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 10\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Veera](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/ansible/user_avatar/forum.ansible.com/veera/32/4107_2.png) [@Veera](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Veera)\ **Post date:** [October 14, 2023, 8:01am UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/formatting-the-dict-items-with-debug/38520/1 "2023-10-14T08:01:28Z")
Hi, I have the below output from my playbook using - debug: msg: “{{ result.stdout }}” TASK [debug] \*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\* ok: [localhost] =\> { “msg”: { “access\_token”: “xxxxxxxxxx”, “expires\_in”: 43200, “token\_type”: “xxxxxx” } } and when I tried to filter the access token alone , with map by “{{ result.stdout | map(‘extract’, access\_token) }}” ., it errors as below The task includes an option with an undefined variable. The error was: ‘access\_token’ is undefined\n\n and when I tried to filter the access token alone , with map by msg: “{{ result.stdout | map(attribute=‘access\_token’) }}” ., it errors as below What I am missing here to get the desired output here? ---
**Author:** ![dnmvisser](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/8e8cbc/32.png) [@dnmvisser](https://forum.ansible.com/u/dnmvisser)\ **Post date:** [October 14, 2023, 12:31pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/formatting-the-dict-items-with-debug/38520/2 "2023-10-14T12:31:23Z")
What is your desired output then?? ---
**Author:** ![Veera](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/ansible/user_avatar/forum.ansible.com/veera/32/4107_2.png) [@Veera](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Veera)\ **Post date:** [October 14, 2023, 12:43pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/formatting-the-dict-items-with-debug/38520/3 "2023-10-14T12:43:40Z")
I need only the output or the value of the below(trying to set\_fact the access\_token) access\_token": “xxxxxxxxxx” ---
**Author:** ![dnmvisser](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/8e8cbc/32.png) [@dnmvisser](https://forum.ansible.com/u/dnmvisser)\ **Post date:** [October 14, 2023, 12:59pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/formatting-the-dict-items-with-debug/38520/4 "2023-10-14T12:59:01Z")
Try piping it through from\_json first ---
**Author:** ![Will\_McDonald](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/f475e1/32.png) [@Will\_McDonald](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Will_McDonald)\ **Post date:** [October 14, 2023, 1:01pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/formatting-the-dict-items-with-debug/38520/5 "2023-10-14T13:01:17Z")
Is there any reason you can’t just use result.stdout.access\_token? $ cat debug-token.yml - name: debug vars hosts: localhost gather\_facts: no vars: result: stdout: access\_token: xxxxxxxxxx expires\_in: 4320 token\_type: yyyyyyyyyy tasks: - name: debug the result ansible.builtin.debug: var: result - name: extract the token ansible.builtin.debug: msg: “{{ result.stdout.access\_token }}” $ ansible-playbook debug-token.yml PLAY [debug vars] \*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\* TASK [debug the result] \*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\* ok: [localhost] =\> { “result”: { “stdout”: { “access\_token”: “xxxxxxxxxx”, “expires\_in”: 4320, “token\_type”: “yyyyyyyyyy” } } } TASK [extract the token] \*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\* ok: [localhost] =\> { “msg”: “xxxxxxxxxx” } ---
**Author:** ![Veera](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/ansible/user_avatar/forum.ansible.com/veera/32/4107_2.png) [@Veera](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Veera)\ **Post date:** [October 14, 2023, 2:09pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/formatting-the-dict-items-with-debug/38520/6 "2023-10-14T14:09:59Z")
when I try with - debug: msg: “{{ result }}” the output is TASK [debug] \*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\* ok: [localhost] =\> { “msg”: { “changed”: true, “cmd”: “curl -X POST ‘[https://xxxxxx.com/auth/login](https://xxxxxx.com/auth/login)’ -H ‘Content-Type: application/json’ -d @.mycred.json”, – trimmed lines ---- “rc”: 0, – trimmed lines ---- “stdout”: “{"access\_token":"XXXXX","token\_type":"Bearer","expires\_in":86400}”, “stdout\_lines”: [ “{"access\_token":"XXXXX","token\_type":"Bearer","expires\_in":86400}” ] } } The output for the - debug: msg: “{{ result.stdout |from\_json }}” is TASK [debug] \*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\* ok: [localhost] =\> { “msg”: { “access\_token”: “XXXXXX”, “expires\_in”: 86400, “token\_type”: “Bearer” } } when I use the - debug: msg: “{{ result.stdout.access\_token }}” the error is TASK [debug] \*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\* fatal: [localhost]: FAILED! =\> {“msg”: “The task includes an option with an undefined variable. The error was: ‘ansible.utils.unsafe\_proxy.AnsibleUnsafeText object’ has no attribute ‘access\_token’\n\nThe error appears to be in ‘/home/user/check.yml’: line 32, column 7, but may\nbe elsewhere in the file depending on the exact syntax problem.\n\nThe offending line appears to be:\n\n\n - debug:\n ^ here\n”} ---
**Author:** ![dnmvisser](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/8e8cbc/32.png) [@dnmvisser](https://forum.ansible.com/u/dnmvisser)\ **Post date:** [October 14, 2023, 3:05pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/formatting-the-dict-items-with-debug/38520/7 "2023-10-14T15:05:37Z")
Yes, so you should combine them like: - debug: msg: “{{ (result.stdout|from\_json).access\_token }}” ---
**Author:** ![Veera](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/ansible/user_avatar/forum.ansible.com/veera/32/4107_2.png) [@Veera](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Veera)\ **Post date:** [October 14, 2023, 3:24pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/formatting-the-dict-items-with-debug/38520/8 "2023-10-14T15:24:42Z")
It worked and its my miss again to combine it … 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![vbotka](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/ansible/user_avatar/forum.ansible.com/vbotka/32/359_2.png) [@vbotka](https://forum.ansible.com/u/vbotka)\ **Post date:** [October 14, 2023, 3:28pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/formatting-the-dict-items-with-debug/38520/9 "2023-10-14T15:28:04Z")
> - debug: >         msg: "{{ result.stdout }}" > > ok: [localhost] =\> { >     "msg": { >         "access\_token": "xxxxxxxxxx", >         "expires\_in": 43200, >         "token\_type": "xxxxxx" >     } > } For example, given the file > cat /tmp/test.json { "access\_token": "xxxxxxxxxx", "expires\_in": 43200, "token\_type": "xxxxxx" } The value of \*result.stdout\* is \*AnsibleUnsafeText\*. What you see depends on the callback. The below play > cat pb.yml - hosts: all   tasks:     - command: cat /tmp/test.json       register: result     - debug:         var: result.stdout gives JSON with the default callback > ANSIBLE\_STDOUT\_CALLBACK=default ansible-playbook pb.yml   ... ok: [localhost] =\> {     "result.stdout": {         "access\_token": "xxxxxxxxxx",         "expires\_in": 43200,         "token\_type": "xxxxxx"     } } The same task gives YAML with the yaml callback > ANSIBLE\_STDOUT\_CALLBACK=yaml ansible-playbook pb2.yml   ... ok: [localhost] =\>   result.stdout:     access\_token: xxxxxxxxxx     expires\_in: 43200     token\_type: xxxxxx You can test the type of the attribute \*stdout\*     - debug:         var: result.stdout|type\_debug gives   result.stdout|type\_debug: AnsibleUnsafeText > filter the access token alone Convert the text to dictionary and get the \*access\_token\* as well. It's up to you where you put the vars   vars:     test\_data: "{{ result.stdout|from\_json }}"     access\_token: "{{ test\_data.access\_token }}" Example of a complete playbook for testing > cat pb.yml - hosts: all   vars:     test\_data: "{{ result.stdout|from\_json }}"     access\_token: "{{ test\_data.access\_token }}"   tasks:     - command: cat /tmp/test.json       register: result     - debug:         var: result.stdout     - debug:         var: result.stdout|type\_debug     - debug:         var: test\_data|type\_debug     - debug:         var: test\_data     - debug:         var: access\_token ---
**Author:** ![Veera](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/ansible/user_avatar/forum.ansible.com/veera/32/4107_2.png) [@Veera](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Veera)\ **Post date:** [October 14, 2023, 4:50pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/formatting-the-dict-items-with-debug/38520/10 "2023-10-14T16:50:31Z")
Thanks Vladimir … rich info for me …