Nested loop with user and folder in Ansible - ansible

Question

I have the following task:
- name: Create required folders.
become: true
ansible.builtin.file:
owner: "{{ item.key }}"
group: ftp
mode: '0755'
path: '/data/{{ item.key }}/in'
state: directory
loop: "{{ query('dict', ftp) | list }}"
when: "'state' not in item.value or item.value.state == 'present'"
And the following host variables with different users:
ftp:
test:
ssh_public_key: "XXXX"
password: "XXX"
home: /data/test
test2:
ssh_public_key: "XXXX"
password: "XXX"
home: /data/test2
What I want is to create two directories for every user :
path: '/data/{{ user }}/in' # item.key, in the code above
path: '/data/{{ user }}/out' # item.key, in the code above
But I already need the loop for iterating over the users itself:
loop: "{{ query('dict', ftp) | list }}"
How can I handle this, for example, with nested loop?

Answer 1

Use a product filter to generate every possible combination of user/folder.
loop: "{{ ftp.keys() | product(['in', 'out']) }}"
Then, respectively,
item.0 contains the users dictionary keys
item.1 contains the folders
It is not fully clear what your condition when does actually, in order to adapt it too, but I guess that you do have an absent or present state in those use dictionaries.
So, the resulting task should be something along the lines of
- name: Create required folders
ansible.builtin.file:
owner: "{{ item.0 }}"
group: ftp
mode: '0755'
path: "/data/{{ item.0 }}/{{ item.1 }}"
state: directory
loop: "{{ ftp.keys() | product(['in', 'out']) }}"
loop_control:
label: "/data/{{ item.0 }}/{{ item.1 }}"
when: "ftp[item.0].state | default('absent') == 'present'"
become: true
Given the task above, when run on those data:
ftp:
test:
state: present
test1:
test2:
state: present
It will yield:
TASK [Create required folders] ***************************************
ok: [localhost] => (item=/data/test/in)
ok: [localhost] => (item=/data/test/out)
skipping: [localhost] => (item=/data/test1/in)
skipping: [localhost] => (item=/data/test1/out)
ok: [localhost] => (item=/data/test2/in)
ok: [localhost] => (item=/data/test2/out)

Answer 2

Test it first, for example
- debug:
msg: "Create /data/{{ item.0.key }}/{{ item.1 }}"
with_nested:
- "{{ ftp|dict2items }}"
- [in, out]
when: item.0.value.state|d('present') == 'present'
gives (abridged)
msg: Create /data/test/in
msg: Create /data/test/out
msg: Create /data/test2/in
msg: Create /data/test2/out
Then try to create the dictionaries
- file:
owner: "{{ item.0.key }}"
group: ftp
mode: '0755'
path: "/data/{{ item.0.key }}/{{ item.1 }}"
state: directory
with_nested:
- "{{ ftp|dict2items }}"
- [in, out]
when: item.0.value.state|d('present') == 'present'
(not tested)