AnsibleUnsafeText enhancement to an existing playbook - ansible

Question

I have a playbook that includes a set of tasks to obtain the status of an IBM MQ Channel. The playbook is passed the Channel name and I run the runmqsc command on each server
and register the output which unfortunately is on many lines, so i need to get this onto one line
echo "DISPLAY CHS('{{CHANNEL_NAME}}') STATUS RQMNAME"| runmqsc {{QMGR}}|grep -v DISPLAY|sed 's/^[^ ].*$/%/g' | tr -s " " | tr -d "\n" | tr "%" "\n"|grep CHANNEL|sed 's/ CURRENT//g' | sed 's/^ //g'|sed 's/ *$//g'
which gave the output
CHANNEL(CHANNEL) CHLTYPE(CLUSSDR) CONNAME(1.2.3.4(1414)) RQMNAME(QMGR) STATUS(RUNNING) SUBSTATE(MQGET) XMITQ(XMIT_QUEUE)
this I parsed to create a list CHSstatus (when CHANNEL_NAME is a wildcard I can have more than one result). From this list I then set variables to the STATUS of the channel.
- set_fact:
allStopped: "{%if splitStatus.STATUS == 'STOPPED'%}{{allStopped + [splitStatus.CHANNEL]}}{%else%}{{allStopped}}{%endif%}"
allRunning: "{%if splitStatus.STATUS == 'RUNNING'%}{{allRunning + [splitStatus.CHANNEL]}}{%else%}{{allRunning}}{%endif%}"
mixedState: "{%if splitStatus.STATUS != 'STOPPED' and splitStatus.STATUS != 'RUNNING'%}{{mixedState + [splitStatus.CHANNEL]}}{%else%}{{mixedState}}{%endif%}"
with_items: "{{CHSstatus}}"
loop_control:
loop_var: splitStatus
This has been working fine for a while with no issues. The problem with this is that you actually need to know the Channel name and as I wanted to enhance it to get the status of all the channels in a CLUSTER I put a 'wrapper' task in front of it to collect the channel names and use these to pass them.
My playbook now calls the MQ command to get these channel names, we can pass the CLUSTER name and register the result in clusterChannels, and include the previously working task with each channel name
- name: Status of Cluster channels
include: channelstatus.yml CHANNEL_NAME={{item}}
with_items: "{{clusterChannels.stdout_lines}}"
This now fails when trying to access the CHSStatus list, I get the error is ERROR! Unexpected Exception: unhashable type: 'dict'
I have tried both methods and compared some variables for each call of the original tasks
Original
"CHSstatus = [{'STATUS': u'RUNNING', 'CHANNEL': u'CHANNEL1'}]",
"CHSstatus Type = list",
"CHANNEL_NAME = CHANNEL1",
"CHANNEL_NAME type = AnsibleUnicode"
with the wrapper
"CHSstatus = [{'STATUS': u'RUNNING', 'CHANNEL': u'CHANNEL1'}]",
"CHSstatus Type = list",
"CHANNEL_NAME = CHANNEL1",
"CHANNEL_NAME type = AnsibleUnsafeText"
I have tried to find information about what AnsibleUnsafeText variable is and found that
'Since you are registering the result of a command in a variable, Ansible can't know what will be the content which becomes delivered. Therefore the registered Text output is marked as Unsafe.'
This has confused me a bit as I am running two commands, one to get the list of Channels in the wrapper and another to get the status of each individual channel in the original unchanged code. The registered variable is of type list but when I pass each channel from the wrapper it becomes an AnsibleUnsafeText type, I noticed that each of the registered variables for both commands when run with_items do indeed have an AnsibleUnsafeText type.
Can i convert this in any way? I have seen answers on how to convert to int, and i have tried item|string but this did not work either.
My original playbook used roles and i created a cutdown version of this using tasks only, this included cut down versions of channelstatus.yml and this worked OK, i then converted this to a role again including the same file and this failed.
One thing i notices in both cases of my MQ command registered results gets parsed successfully but the error occurs when I try to use this list of dict.
Example below is a list which contains a single dict, this can be a list of multiple dict's when run
CHSstatus = [{'STATUS': u'RUNNING', 'CHANNEL': u'CHANNEL1'}]
and a simple debug command is enough for this error to fail the playbook...
- debug:
msg:
- "{{item.CHANNEL}}"
- "{{item.STATUS}}"
with_items: "{{CHSstatus}}"
ERROR! Unexpected Exception: unhashable type: 'dict'
however
- debug:
msg:
- "{{CHSstatus[0].CHANNEL}}"
- "{{CHSstatus[0].STATUS}}"
works fine, which really does not make sense
Any help appreciated