JSON formatting on register value.

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I have a playbook that use the S3 module to list items:

`

  • name: List s3 bucket

local_action:
module: s3
bucket: “{{ S3_BUCKET_NAME }}”
mode: list
register: S3_LIST_ITEM

`

The result I output to a file using lineinfile:

`

name: Output to folder

local_action:
module: lineinfile
create: yes
line: “{{ S3_LIST_ITEM.s3_keys }}”
dest: “{{ S3_BUCKET_FILE }}”
state: present

`

However this results in a JSON format:

[‘HelloWorld.sh’, ‘bucket1/’, ‘test1’]

I tried using jinja2 filter (from_json),

e.g. line: “{{ S3_LIST_ITEM.s3_keys }}”| from_json

But that didn’t work as it gave me:

`
fatal: [localhost]: FAILED! => {“failed”: true, “msg”: “Unexpected templating type error occurred on ({{ S3_LIST_ITEM.s3_keys|from_json }}): expected string or buffer”}

`

There is also no stdout_lines equivalent so how can I put this in a text format that separate each value in a new line?

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FYI I figured it out that I needed to use with_item to parse the JSON.