how to filter e filter string from list in ansible - ansible

Question

this is the list which i have filtered from a nested json using the below json_query
Please see the content of tmpdata
{
"content_length": "4883",
"status": 200,
"cookies": {},
"changed": false,
"strict_transport_security": "max-age=15768000",
"x_api_total_time": "0.234s",
"_ansible_item_result": true,
"_ansible_no_log": false,
"json": {
"job_tags": "",
"type": "job",
"scm_revision": "",
"status": "successful",
"credential": null,
"force_handlers": false,
"job_slice_number": 0,
"ask_credential_on_launch": false,
"started": "2021-02-24T06:48:29.884643Z",
"ask_job_type_on_launch": false,
"start_at_task": "",
"event_processing_finished": true,
"elapsed": 27.82,
"finished": "2021-02-24T06:48:57.704791Z",
"ask_variables_on_launch": true,
"ask_limit_on_launch": false,
"job_slice_count": 1,
"ask_skip_tags_on_launch": false,
"extra_vars": "{\"domain\": \"abc-cn-1\", \"mgmt_password\": \"admin123\", \"mgmt_server\": \"192.168.20.30\", \"fingerprint\": \"9125544D272B5AD28F3E9AB7BC8AA3F276E45064\", \"fwcmd\": \"fw sam -v -J src 192.68.10.10\", \"targets\": [\"abc-cn-c1\"]}",
"use_fact_cache": false,
"name": "test-Checkpoint",
"created": "2021-02-24T06:48:29.003796Z",
"url": "/api/v2/jobs/1198/",
"vault_credential": null,
"verbosity": 4,
"job_args": "[\"ansible-playbook\", \"-u\", \"root\", \"-vvvv\", \"-i\", \"/tmp/awx_1198_e4iie_fm/tmpz4bfietf\", \"-e\", \"#/tmp/awx_1198_e4iie_fm/env/extravars\", \"chkpoint.yml\"]",
"modified": "2021-02-24T06:48:29.720325Z",
"unified_job_template": 7,
"project": 6,
"limit": "",
"timeout": 0,
"host_status_counts": {
"ok": 1
},
"result_traceback": "",
"launch_type": "manual"
},
"server": "nginx/1.12.2",
"connection": "close",
"_ansible_parsed": true,
"allow": "GET, DELETE, HEAD, OPTIONS",
"redirected": false,
"cookies_string": "",
"_ansible_ignore_errors": null
}
i am using the below json_query to filter the output from the tempdata
- name: "search for traget fw"
set_fact:
job_status2: "{{ tmpdata | json_query('[json.status, json.extra_vars]') }}"
please see the output from the above facts, you can see dict inside the list and i want to filter only expected output mentioned below
current output:
ok: [localhost] => {
"msg": [
"successful",
"{\"domain\": \"abc-cn-1\", \"mgmt_password\": \"admxxxxxin123\", \"mgmt_server\": \"192.168.10.20\", \"fingerprint\": \"9125544D272B5AD28F3E9AB7BC8AA3F276E45064\", \"fwcmd\": \"fw sam -v -J src 192.68.10.10\", \"targets\": [\"abc-cn-c1\"]}"
]
}
expected output:
["successful", targets": ["abc-cn-c1"]]
please help me id if this is possible

Answer 1

There are (at least) two answers to your question if you want to continue to use json_query, and one that sidesteps that mess entirely. We'll start with the latter because it's less typing for me :-)
- set_fact:
job_status2: '{{ [ tmpdata.json.status, (tmpdata.json.extra_vars|from_json).targets] }}'
the second is a slight variation on that, in that someone needs to resolve that embedded JSON to a dict and (AFAIK) JMESPath has no such ability
- set_fact:
job_status2: "{{ newdata | json_query('[json.status, json.extra_vars.targets]') }}"
vars:
newdata: >-
{{ tmpdata
| combine({"json":{"extra_vars", tmpdata.json.extra_vars|from_json}}, recursive=True)
}}
I mention that one mostly for the case where you are doing other things with json_query and thus it would be advantageous to know how to coerce the structure to be friendlier for JMESPath
and finally, you can cheat and use the JMESPath literal notation to embed the already JSON-ified string right into the query
- set_fact:
job_status2: "{{ newdata | json_query('[json.status, `' + newdata.json.extra_vars + '`.targets]') }}"