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Getting the subject mentioned error while reading a compressed json, any workaround for this?

`

  • name: read local file
    set_fact:
    reg_changes: “{{ lookup(‘file’, ‘/home/tess/xl.json’) | from_json }}”
    delegate_to: localhost
    `
2

Try using a site like jsonlint.com to check if your xl.json is actually valid JSON.

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If it’s compressed, you probably need to uncompress it first. The from_json filter doesn’t have builtin support for decompressing files. (I don’t believe any of our filters do)

-Toshio