How do I map metadata to a variable? - ansible

Question

I have an ansible playbook in which I need to pass 2 metadata elements to 2 different variables.
My relevent code in my yml is:
- debug:
var: result
- name: convert
set_fact:
var1: "{{ result | map(attribute='appname') }}"
var2: "{{ result | map(attribute='vipport') }}"
My metadata output looks like this:
"result": {
"changed": true,
"failed": false,
"meta": {
"appname": " testserver4",
"serverquerytype": "A",
"servicemonitor": "http-ecv",
"serviceport": 4433,
"vipmethod": "LEASTCONNECTION",
"vipport": 80,
"viptype": "HTTP"
}
I need to be able to create a variable of appname and vipport, the code I tried above does not work. Any idea what I am missing?

Answer 1

Below I put examples of how you can manipulate the result variable. Set_fact is redundant but I have added and example of taking the variable directly from the result variable.
- hosts: localhost
vars:
"result": {
"changed": true,
"failed": false,
"meta": {
"appname": " testserver4",
"serverquerytype": "A",
"servicemonitor": "http-ecv",
"serviceport": 4433,
"vipmethod": "LEASTCONNECTION",
"vipport": 80,
"viptype": "HTTP"
}
}
tasks:
- name: set var1 and var2 from result var
set_fact:
var1: "{{ result.meta.appname }}"
var2: "{{ result.meta.vipport }}"
- name: output of set_fact
debug:
msg:
- "{{ var1 }}"
- "{{ var2 }}"
- name: Output directly from result variable. Just an example that set_fact is not really needed.
debug:
msg:
- "{{ result.meta.appname }}"
- "{{ result.meta.vipport }}"
Output:
TASK [set var1 and var2 from result var] ***************************************************************************************************************************************************
ok: [localhost]
TASK [output of set_fact] ******************************************************************************************************************************************************************
ok: [localhost] => {
"msg": [
" testserver4",
"80"
]
}
TASK [Output directly from result variable. Just an example that set_fact is not really needed.] *******************************************************************************************
ok: [localhost] => {
"msg": [
" testserver4",
"80"
]
}