# uri body call needs \[\] instead of {} **URL:** \ **Category:** Ansible Project\ **Created:** [December 13, 2019, 9:09pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/uri-body-call-needs-instead-of/31819 "2019-12-13T21:09:07Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 10\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Nicholas\_Britton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/a587f6/32.png) [@Nicholas\_Britton](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Nicholas_Britton)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2019, 9:09pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/uri-body-call-needs-instead-of/31819/1 "2019-12-13T21:09:07Z")
I am working on some uri calls with netbackup and with swagger shows that it only works with but the uri modual is using {}. Any thoughts or tricks to get that to format correctly? For example i am sending a body uri body of: ` - name: Create MSDP Disk Pool uri: url: “{{baseurl}}storage/disk-pools” method: POST body\_format: json status\_code: 201 headers: authorization: “{{login.json.token}}” content-type: application/vnd.netbackup+json;version=3.0 body: data: type: diskPool attributes: name: server\_dpm diskVolumes: [name: PureDiskVolume] maximumIoStreams: limitIoStreams: true streamsPerVolume: 75 relationships: storageServers: data: type: storageServer id: ‘PureDisk:server.domain’ validate\_certs: no return\_content: yes register: dp\_create ` Which produces this: ` “body”: { “data”: { “attributes”: { “diskVolumes”: [ { “name”: “PureDiskVolume” } ], “maximumIoStreams”: { “limitIoStreams”: true, “streamsPerVolume”: 75 }, “name”: “server\_dpm” }, “relationships”: { “storageServers”: { “data”: { “id”: “PureDisk:server.domain”, “type”: “storageServer” } } }, “type”: “diskPool” } }, ` While swagger produces it as this: ` working: { “data”: { “type”: “diskPool”, “attributes”: { “name”: “server\_dpm”, “diskVolumes”: [ { “name”: “PureDiskVolume” } ], “maximumIoStreams”: { “limitIoStreams”: true, “streamsPerVolume”: 75 } }, “relationships”: { “storageServers”: { “data”: [ { “type”: “storageServer”, “id”: “PureDisk:server.domain” } ] } } } } ` ---
**Author:** ![Dick\_Visser](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/d9b06d/32.png) [@Dick\_Visser](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Dick_Visser)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2019, 11:16pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/uri-body-call-needs-instead-of/31819/2 "2019-12-13T23:16:18Z")
You’re sending something that doesn’t work, and you seem to know exactly what the problem is, and also what format _does_ work. So the solution is… send that? Or am I missing something ---
**Author:** ![Nicholas\_Britton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/a587f6/32.png) [@Nicholas\_Britton](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Nicholas_Britton)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2019, 11:46pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/uri-body-call-needs-instead-of/31819/3 "2019-12-13T23:46:33Z")
The problem is I don’t know how to make ansible send the right bracket. Testing from swagger I know what it expects. ---
**Author:** ![racke](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/ansible/user_avatar/forum.ansible.com/racke/32/4767_2.png) [@racke](https://forum.ansible.com/u/racke)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2019, 8:35am UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/uri-body-call-needs-instead-of/31819/4 "2019-12-14T08:35:24Z")
> The problem is I don't know how to make ansible send the right bracket. Testing from swagger I know what it expects. Hello Nicholas, try to use a list instead of a dict: data:   - type: storageServer     id: 'PureDisk:server.domain' Regards         Racke ---
**Author:** ![Nicholas\_Britton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/a587f6/32.png) [@Nicholas\_Britton](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Nicholas_Britton)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2019, 1:21pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/uri-body-call-needs-instead-of/31819/5 "2019-12-14T13:21:56Z")
Is it the - in front of type that makes it a list over a dict? ---
**Author:** ![Nicholas\_Britton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/a587f6/32.png) [@Nicholas\_Britton](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Nicholas_Britton)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2019, 1:34pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/uri-body-call-needs-instead-of/31819/6 "2019-12-14T13:34:22Z")
When i try that i get a syntax error. fatal: [127.0.0.1]: FAILED! =\> { “reason”: “Syntax Error while loading YAML.\n did not find expected ‘-’ indicator\n\nThe error appears to be in ‘/home/nbritton/ansible/gts-core-storage-operations/netbackup/tasks/msdp.create.include.yml’: line 78, column 17, but may\nbe elsewhere in the file depending on the exact syntax problem.\n\nThe offending line appears to be:\n\n - type: storageServer\n id: ‘PureDisk:server’\n ^ here\nThis one looks easy to fix. It seems that there is a value started\nwith a quote, and the YAML parser is expecting to see the line ended\nwith the same kind of quote. For instance:\n\n when: "ok" in result.stdout\n\nCould be written as:\n\n when: ‘"ok" in result.stdout’\n\nOr equivalently:\n\n when: "‘ok’ in result.stdout"\n” } ---
**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:** [December 14, 2019, 3:19pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/uri-body-call-needs-instead-of/31819/7 "2019-12-14T15:19:34Z")
Hi Nicholas, > When i try that i get a syntax error. > > fatal: [127.0.0.1]: FAILED! =\> { >     "reason": "Syntax Error while loading YAML.\n Literal style indicator of the block is missing "|" [https://yaml.org/spec/1.2/spec.html#id2795688](https://yaml.org/spec/1.2/spec.html#id2795688) Try:                    body: | instead of > \> \> body: > \> \> data: > \> \> type: diskPool > \> \> attributes: > \> \> name: server\_dpm > \> \> diskVolumes: > \> \> [name: PureDiskVolume] > \> \> maximumIoStreams: > \> \> limitIoStreams: true > \> \> streamsPerVolume: 75 > \> \> relationships: > \> \> storageServers: > \> \> data: > \> \> type: storageServer > \> \> id: 'PureDisk:server.domain' Cheers,   -vlado ---
**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:** [December 14, 2019, 3:40pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/uri-body-call-needs-instead-of/31819/8 "2019-12-14T15:40:34Z")
Hi Nicholas, > When i try that i get a syntax error. > > fatal: [127.0.0.1]: FAILED! =\> { >     "reason": "Syntax Error while loading YAML.\n Indentation is wrong. (Disregard my previous email.) > \> \> body: > \> \> data: > \> \> . type: diskPool > \> \> . attributes: > \> \> . name: server\_dpm > \> \> . diskVolumes: > \> \> . [name: PureDiskVolume] > \> \> . maximumIoStreams: > \> \> . limitIoStreams: true > \> \> . streamsPerVolume: 75 > \> \> .relationships: > \> \> .storageServers: > \> \> data: > \> \> type: storageServer > \> \> id: 'PureDisk:server.domain' Cheers,   -vlado ---
**Author:** ![Nicholas\_Britton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/a587f6/32.png) [@Nicholas\_Britton](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Nicholas_Britton)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2019, 5:48pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/uri-body-call-needs-instead-of/31819/9 "2019-12-14T17:48:29Z")
Okay I can try that. Looks like you added a . In front of each line but the last one that needs to be a list? Did I see that correct? ---
**Author:** ![Nicholas\_Britton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/a587f6/32.png) [@Nicholas\_Britton](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Nicholas_Britton)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2019, 5:31am UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/uri-body-call-needs-instead-of/31819/10 "2019-12-15T05:31:58Z")
Thank everyone for the help. Once i lined up the - correctly it worked. That was a nice trick to learn. relationships: storageServers: data: - type: storageServer id: “PureDisk:{{mediaserver}}.{{domain}}”