How to filter Ansible 'find' output - ansible

Question

I would like to view the list of symbolic links from some remote servers in the terminal, but a lot of information is being printed when I run the playbook.
This is ansible 2.7.12 running on an Ubuntu server. I am using 'find' module and file_type: link to get the softlink details.
Find is returning a lot of details with the return value key "files" but I just need the soft links and corresponding server name in the terminal.
---
# tasks file for application
- name: Get the current applications running
find:
paths: /path/to/app
file_type: link
register: find_result
- name: Print find output
debug:
var: find_result.results
Actual Result:
ok: [client3.example.com] => {
"find_result.files": [
{
"atime": 1559027986.555,
"ctime": 1559027984.828,
"dev": 64768,
"gid": 0,
"gr_name": "root",
"inode": 4284972,
"isblk": false,
"ischr": false,
"isdir": false,
"isfifo": false,
"isgid": false,
"islnk": true,
"isreg": false,
"issock": false,
"isuid": false,
"mode": "0777",
"mtime": 1559027984.828,
"nlink": 1,
"path": "/path/to/app/softlink.1",
"pw_name": "root",
"rgrp": true,
...
...
Would like to get some filtered output in the terminal like:
ok: [client3.example.com] => {
"find_result.files": [
{
"path": "/path/to/app/softlink.1",
},

Answer 1

There are a couple of ways of addressing this question. You could use the map filter to extract just the path attribute from your results:
- name: Print find output
debug:
var: results.files|map(attribute='path')|list
Given the sample data in your question, this would result in:
TASK [Print find output] *****************************************************************************************************************************************************
ok: [localhost] => {
"results.files|map(attribute='path')|list": [
"/path/to/app/softlink.1"
]
}
You can also accomplish something similar using the json_query filter, which applies JMESPath queries to your data:
- name: Print find output
debug:
var: results.files|json_query('[*].path')