I get "failed to combine variables, expected dicts but got a 'AnsibleUnsafeText' and a 'dict' when I use folded or literal style

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I want to copy some data from obne dictioneary to teh other and use a task like this, which works fine:


- name: Create dg_helper for usage information about data_groups
ansible.builtin.set_fact:
dg_helper: "{{ dg_helper| default({}) | combine( { item: {'handled_in': [], 'backed_up_in': [], 'content' : data_groups[item].content }} ) }}"
with_items:
"{{ data_groups }}"
no_log: true
tags: data_overview

When I used folded or literal style used folded stype and literal style, I get the above mentioned error :


- name: Create dg_helper for usage information about data_groups
ansible.builtin.set_fact:
dg_helper: |
"{{ dg_helper| default({}) | combine(
{ item:
{'handled_in':[], 'backed_up_in':[], 'content': data_groups[item].content }
}
) }}"
with_items:
"{{ data_groups }}"
tags: data_overview

This gives :

ansible-playbook --tags data_overview reports_scripts_pb.yml

PLAY [Generate Reports] ****************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************

TASK [Create dg_helper for usage information about data_groups] ************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************
ok: [localhost] => (item=assets)
fatal: [localhost]: FAILED! => {"msg": "failed to combine variables, expected dicts but got a 'AnsibleUnsafeText' and a 'dict': \n\"\\"{'assets': {'handled_in': [], 'backed_up_in': [], 'content': 'Software, Graphiken, Fonts usw'}}\\"\n\"\n{\"audio\": {\"handled_in\": [], \"backed_up_in\": [], \"content\": \"Musik, H\u00f6rspiele, H\u00f6rb\u00fccher\"}}"}

Why is this ?

Thanks a lot

Norbert

2

I should show the source datastructure , i think . It looks like this:


data_groups: {
"assets": {content: "Software, Graphiken, Fonts usw", backup_required: true },
"audio": {content: "Musik, Hörspiele, Hörbücher", backup_required: true },
"fileserver": {content: "Samba-Konfguration", backup_required: true },
"fossil": {content: "Fossil-Repositories", backup_required: true }
}

And the error message suggests that it tried to,load the data from ‘audio’ in the entry for ‘assets’, but why ?

BTW changing the | operator above to > does not change the problem

3

You are over quoting. When you switch to “|”-style, you should then remove the beginning and ending double-quotes.

4

Ah, many thanks . That did it !