uri module - POST files

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Hi,

I have the following line but i fear the uri module is not encoding the file first and thus fails to send the file. I tried to set a variable via a command and uuencode but that also failed - any ideas or do i need to shell and use curl to post?

  • uri: url=http://localhost:8080/store.json method=POST body=“{{ lookup(‘file’,‘test’) }}” status_code=200 HEADER_Content-Type=“application/json”

test is a json file.

Thanks

Mark

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Hi Olivier,

What's the error and what do you get on the server's logs?

Giovanni

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It does not get that far instead ansible tried to parse it and objects to duplicate values which is valid in this case.

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Also, if your run the playbook in verbose mode, you’ll see what ansible is sending. This can help you determine what might be wrong with the sent data.

Also, use the ‘return_content=yes’ on the task to see what the server is responding.

Showing us those two things can help you troubleshoot…

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Can you show us the output… I’m guessing it’s probably some kind of quoting/yaml parsing issue.