Access to stdout_lines when using Ansible - debugging

Question

Given I have "registered" files in directory using shell task in a var sonarqube_plugins_installed, when I "debug" this using
- name: Debug
debug:
var: sonarqube_plugins_installed.results
I see for example
TASK [sonarqube : Debug] ************************************************************************
ok: [sonarqube] => {
"sonarqube_plugins_installed.results": [
{
"ansible_loop_var": "item",
"changed": true,
"cmd": "ls /opt/sonarqube/sonarqube-6.7/extensions/plugins/sonar-build-breaker-plugin-*.jar",
"delta": "0:00:00.003748",
"end": "2019-09-18 04:04:54.355667",
"failed": false,
"invocation": {
"module_args": {
"_raw_params": "ls /opt/sonarqube/sonarqube-6.7/extensions/plugins/sonar-build-breaker-plugin-*.jar",
"_uses_shell": true,
"argv": null,
"chdir": null,
"creates": null,
"executable": null,
"removes": null,
"stdin": null,
"stdin_add_newline": true,
"strip_empty_ends": true,
"warn": true
}
},
"item": "build_breaker",
"rc": 0,
"start": "2019-09-18 04:04:54.351919",
"stderr": "",
"stderr_lines": [],
"stdout": "/opt/sonarqube/sonarqube-6.7/extensions/plugins/sonar-build-breaker-plugin-2.2.jar",
"stdout_lines": [
"/opt/sonarqube/sonarqube-6.7/extensions/plugins/sonar-build-breaker-plugin-2.2.jar"
]
}
]
}
How can I access for example stdout in another task? In another task I want to process each item in results using with_items and output stdout.
How can this be done?

Answer 1

The following should be a good start:
- name: show stdout for each result
debug:
var: item.stdout
loop: "{{ sonarqube_plugins_installed.results }}"
As you guessed, this is going trough each elements in your results list.
An other approach if your want to print all lines at once would be to process the data structure through json_query with the relevant jmespath expression to only extract the needed information
- name: show sdtout list for all results
debug:
msg: "{{ sonarqube_plugins_installed | json_query('results[].stdout[]') }}"
You could also combine the two and loop over the simple list of stdouts only
- name: show stdout for each result
debug:
var: item
loop: "{{ sonarqube_plugins_installed | json_query('results[].stdout[]') }}"
You could also use the map filter to extract the desired attribute:
- name: show stdout list of all results
debug:
msg: "{{ sonarqube_plugins_installed.results | map(attribute='stdout') | list }}"
And there other solutions you can use that I'm sure you will find in the specific ansible filters and general jinja2 filters documentations