How to Read and Output json Response using Ansible - ansible

Question

How to read/display the following response (e.g: name, srcinft, dstinf) from FortiGate Firewall using Ansible. Or is there any way I can read this JSON output from file and display the fields i want.
{
"changed": false,
"meta": {
"http_method": "GET",
"size": 2,
"matched_count": 2,
"next_idx": 1,
"revision": "ac9c4e1d722b74695dee4fb3ce4fcd12",
"results": [
{
"policyid": 1,
"q_origin_key": 1,
"status": "enable",
"name": "test-policy01",
"uuid": "c4de3298-97ce-51ed-ccba-cafc556ba9e0",
"uuid-idx": 14729,
"srcintf": [
{
"name": "port2",
"q_origin_key": "port2"
}
],
"dstintf": [
{
"name": "port1",
"q_origin_key": "port1"
}
],
"action": "accept",
"ztna-status": "disable",
"srcaddr": [
{
"name": "all",
"q_origin_key": "all"
}
],
"dstaddr": [
{
"name": "all",
"q_origin_key": "all"
}
],
"policy-expiry": "disable",
"policy-expiry-date": "0000-00-00 00:00:00",
"service": [
{
"name": "ALL",
"q_origin_key": "ALL"
}
],
"tos": "0x00",
"sgt-check": "disable",
"sgt": []
},
{
"policyid": 2,
"q_origin_key": 2,
"status": "enable",
"name": "test-policy-02",
"uuid": "534b6c9c-97d1-51ed-7aa8-7544c628c7ea",
"uuid-idx": 14730,
"srcintf": [
{
"name": "port1",
"q_origin_key": "port1"
}
],
"dstintf": [
{
"name": "port2",
"q_origin_key": "port2"
}
],
"action": "accept",
"nat64": "disable",
"nat46": "disable",
"ztna-status": "disable",
"srcaddr": [
{
"name": "all",
"q_origin_key": "all"
}
],
"dstaddr": [
{
"name": "login.microsoft.com",
"q_origin_key": "login.microsoft.com"
}
],
"srcaddr6": [],
"reputation-direction6": "destination",
"policy-expiry-date": "0000-00-00 00:00:00",
"service": [
{
"name": "ALL_ICMP6",
"q_origin_key": "ALL_ICMP6"
}
],
"tos": "0x00",
"webcache": "disable",
"webcache-https": "disable",
"sgt-check": "disable",
"sgt": []
}
],
"vdom": "root",
"path": "firewall",
"name": "policy",
"version": "v7.2.3",
"build": 1262
},
"invocation": {
"module_args": {
"vdom": "root",
"access_token": "VALUE_SPECIFIED_IN_NO_LOG_PARAMETER",
"selector": "firewall_policy",
"selectors": null
}
},
"_ansible_no_log": false
}
Expected result:
result:
test-policy-02:
dstintf:
- name: port2
q_origin_key: port2
srcintf:
- name: port1
q_origin_key: port1
test-policy01:
dstintf:
- name: port1
q_origin_key: port1
srcintf:
- name: port2
q_origin_key: port2

Answer 1

Unfortunately there is absolute no description or any further information.
However, regarding
How to read/display the following response (e.g: name, srcinft, dstinf) from FortiGate Firewall using Ansible.
you may have a look into the following simple and lazy approach with loop
---
- hosts: localhost
become: false
gather_facts: false
tasks:
- name: Include vars of stuff.yaml into the 'stuff' variable (2.2).
ansible.builtin.include_vars:
file: stuff.json
name: stuff
- name: Show list of dict
debug:
msg: "{{ stuff.meta.results }}"
- name: Print key:value
debug:
msg:
- "name: {{ item.name }}"
- "{{ item.srcintf }}"
- "{{ item.dstintf }}"
loop_control:
label: "policyid: {{ item.policyid }}"
loop: "{{ stuff.meta.results }}"
resulting into an output of
TASK [Print key:value] *****************
ok: [localhost] => (item=policyid: 1) =>
msg:
- 'name: test-policy01'
- - name: port2
q_origin_key: port2
- - name: port1
q_origin_key: port1
ok: [localhost] => (item=policyid: 2) =>
msg:
- 'name: test-policy-02'
- - name: port1
q_origin_key: port1
- - name: port2
q_origin_key: port2
Further Documentation
include_vars module – Load variables from files, dynamically within a task
Loops
Or is there any way I can read this JSON output from file and display the fields I want?
To get familiar with data structure, respective JSON response you've provided in your example, you could start with something like a JSONPathFinder. It will result into an path of
x.meta.results[0].name
x.meta.results[0].srcintf
x.meta.results[0].dstintf
x.meta.results[1].name
x.meta.results[1].srcintf
x.meta.results[1].dstintf
for the provided keys.
It is also possible to use jq on CLI
jq keys stuff.json
[
"_ansible_no_log",
"changed",
"invocation",
"meta"
]
and just proceed further with
jq '.meta.results' stuff.json
jq '.meta.results[0]' stuff.json
jq '.meta.results[1]' stuff.json
Further Q&A
How to get key names from JSON using jq?