# How to convert a text area to list of disks for vmware\_guest **URL:** \ **Category:** Ansible Project\ **Tags:** awx\ **Created:** [June 22, 2019, 5:40am UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/how-to-convert-a-text-area-to-list-of-disks-for-vmware-guest/30633 "2019-06-22T05:40:59Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 3\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Angel\_Rengifo\_Cancin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Angel\_Rengifo\_Cancin](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Angel_Rengifo_Cancin)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2019, 5:40am UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/how-to-convert-a-text-area-to-list-of-disks-for-vmware-guest/30633/1 "2019-06-22T05:40:59Z")
Hello guys: There’s something I’ve been struggling with for some hours without knowing exactly how to solve it. Through AWX, I want users to enter the size of disks for a virtual machine using a text area in a survey, like this: 100 20 130 230 When I assign this input to a variable, I see that ansible converts them to a list, like this: mydisks: |- 100 20 130 230 By using vmware\_guest module, I’d like to convert it to something like… vmware\_guest: disk: - size\_gb: 100 type: None - size\_gb: 20 type: None - size\_gb: 130 type: None - size\_gb: 230 type: None So I found some references on Internet that look like this jinja2 expressions: vmware\_guest: disk: \>- [{% for size in mydisks.split() %}‘{ size\_gb: {{ size }}, type: None }’, {% endfor %}] However, when I run the playbook I got an ugly error like this: TASK [Create virtual machine] \*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\* An exception occurred during task execution. To see the full traceback, use -vvv. The error was: AttributeError: ‘str’ object has no attribute ‘get’ fatal: [localhost]: FAILED! =\> {“changed”: false, “module\_stderr”: “Traceback (most recent call last):\n File "/home/arengifo/.ansible/tmp/ansible-tmp-1561181905.46-145468152234880/AnsiballZ\_vmware\_guest.py", line 114, in \n \_ansiballz\_main()\n File "/home/arengifo/.ansible/tmp/ansible-tmp-1561181905.46-145468152234880/AnsiballZ\_vmware\_guest.py", line 106, in \_ansiballz\_main\n invoke\_module(zipped\_mod, temp\_path, ANSIBALLZ\_PARAMS)\n File "/home/arengifo/.ansible/tmp/ansible-tmp-1561181905.46-145468152234880/AnsiballZ\_vmware\_guest.py", line 49, in invoke\_module\n imp.load\_module(‘ **main** ’, mod, module, MOD\_DESC)\n File "/tmp/ansible\_vmware\_guest\_payload\_iGarsa/ **main**.py", line 2630, in \n File "/tmp/ansible\_vmware\_guest\_payload\_iGarsa/ **main**.py", line 2619, in main\n File "/tmp/ansible\_vmware\_guest\_payload\_iGarsa/ **main**.py", line 2135, in deploy\_vm\n File "/tmp/ansible\_vmware\_guest\_payload\_iGarsa/ **main**.py", line 1811, in configure\_disks\nAttributeError: ‘str’ object has no attribute ‘get’\n”, “module\_stdout”: “”, “msg”: “MODULE FAILURE\nSee stdout/stderr for the exact error”, “rc”: 1} Would someone, please, help me with this issue? I’m sure my jinja2 expression it’s wrong, but I can figure out what’s the right way to do it. Thanks in advance ---
**Author:** ![Kai\_Stian\_Olstad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/e19adc/32.png) [@Kai\_Stian\_Olstad](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Kai_Stian_Olstad)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2019, 7:12am UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/how-to-convert-a-text-area-to-list-of-disks-for-vmware-guest/30633/2 "2019-06-22T07:12:32Z")
> When I assign this input to a variable, I see that ansible converts them to > a list, like this: > > mydisks: |- >    100 >    20 >    130 >    230 > > By using vmware\_guest module, I'd like to convert it to something like... > > vmware\_guest: >    disk: >      - size\_gb: 100 >        type: None >      - size\_gb: 20 >        type: None >      - size\_gb: 130 >        type: None >      - size\_gb: 230 >        type: None > > So I found some references on Internet that look like this jinja2 > expressions: > > vmware\_guest: >    disk: \>- >      [{% for size in mydisks.split() %}'{ size\_gb: {{ size }}, type: None > }', {% endfor %}] > > However, when I run the playbook I got an ugly error like this: \ > Would someone, please, help me with this issue? I'm sure my jinja2 > expression it's wrong, but I can figure out what's the right way to do it. With set\_fact you can do this - set\_fact:     disk: "{{ disk | default() + [{ 'size\_gb': item, 'type': 'None' }] }}"   with\_items: '{{ mydisks.split() }}' ---
**Author:** ![Angel\_Rengifo\_Cancin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Angel\_Rengifo\_Cancin](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Angel_Rengifo_Cancin)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2019, 7:42pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/how-to-convert-a-text-area-to-list-of-disks-for-vmware-guest/30633/3 "2019-06-22T19:42:52Z")
Thank you so much, Kai. This worked perfectly!