Using ansible playbook, and lookup plugins, How to convert the result of "curl https://ifconfig.io/all
" which has the dictionary format key: value
to item list
country_code: US
encoding: gzip
forwarded: 29.493.593.012
host: XXX.XXX.X53.2XX
ifconfig_hostname: ifconfig.io
ip: XXX.XXX.X53.2XX
lang: ""
method: GET
mime: '/'
port: 27404
referer: ""
ua: Python-urllib/3.6
The required output: items list in this format:
[
{
"key": "country_code",
"value": "US"
},
{
"key": "encoding",
"value": "gzip"
},
{
"key": "forwarded",
"value": "29.493.593.012"
},
{
"key": "host",
"value": "XXX.XXX.X53.2XX"
},
{
"key": "ifconfig_hostname",
"value": "ifconfig.io"
},
{
"key": "ip",
"value": "XXX.XXX.X53.2XX"
},
{
"key": "lang",
"value": "''"
},
{
"key": "method",
"value": "GET"
},
{
"key": "mime",
"value": "''"
},
{
"key": "port",
"value": "28180"
},
{
"key": "referer",
"value": "''"
},
{
"key": "ua",
"value": "Python-urllib/3.6"
}
]
The script I have used is:
- name: Get url contents
vars:
curl_res: "{{ query('url','https://ifconfig.io/all') }}"
debug:
msg: "{{ item }}"
loop: "{{ curl_res | dict2items }}"
But I have got this error:
TASK [Get url contents] *****************************************************************************************************************
fatal: [servera]: FAILED! => {"msg": "Unexpected templating type error occurred on ({{ curl_res | dict2items }}): dict2items requires a dictionary, got <class 'list'> instead."}
So, I made it manually, saved the curl results in a local file then fine-tune it to this format:
cat files/curl_result
{
"country_code": "US",
"encoding": "gzip",
"forwarded": "29.493.593.012",
"host": "XXX.XXX.X53.2XX",
"ifconfig_hostname": "ifconfig.io",
"ip": "XXX.XXX.X53.2XX",
"lang": "''",
"method": "GET",
"mime": "''",
"port": "28580",
"referer": "''",
"ua": "Python-urllib/3.6"
}
then, I have run this task in my play :
- name: extract from file
vars:
items_curl_res: "{{ lookup('file', 'curl_result') | from_json | dict2items }}"
debug:
var: items_curl_res
The return you are getting is not a dictionary, but a list of string in the form key: value
.
That form is actually a valid YAML format, so you could use map
to apply a from_yaml
filter to all those string, then, map
again a dict2items
and finally, flatten
the list of list.
Ending up with this taks:
- debug:
var: >-
query('url','https://ifconfig.io/all')
| map('from_yaml')
| map('dict2items')
| flatten
This task would yield:
query('url','https://ifconfig.io/all') | map('from_yaml') | map('dict2items') | flatten:
- key: country_code
value: BE
- key: encoding
value: gzip
- key: forwarded
value: 93.184.216.34
- key: host
value: 93.184.216.34
- key: ifconfig_hostname
value: ifconfig.io
- key: ip
value: 93.184.216.34
- key: lang
value: ''
- key: method
value: GET
- key: mime
value: ''
- key: port
value: 24294
- key: referer
value: ''
- key: ua
value: ansible-httpget