Subelements with the query plugin

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I’m trying to figure out how to do ‘subelements’ with the query plugin. The thing below doesn’t work, it complains that “could not find ‘ssh_key’ key in iterated item”. So the skip_missing is not working. While when I use ‘with_subelements’ it does work. Can someone see what I’m doing wrong?

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Hi,

I'm trying to figure out how to do 'subelements' with the query
plugin. The thing below doesn't work, it complains that "could not
find 'ssh_key' key in iterated item". So the skip_missing is not
working. While when I use 'with_subelements' it does work. Can
someone see what I'm doing wrong?

> - name: debug user struct
> debug:
> msg: "{{ item.1 }}"
> loop: "{{ query('subelements', user, 'ssh_key', skip_missing=yes) }}"
> tags: test29

According to the documentation (see last example here:
https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/2.5/plugins/lookup/subelements.html#examples)
you need to quote skip_missing=yes:

- name: debug user struct
  debug:
    msg: "{{ item.1 }}"
  loop: "{{ query('subelements', user, 'ssh_key', 'skip_missing=yes') }}"
  tags: test29

(Haven't tried it, though.)

Cheers,
Felix