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eddyP23
eddyP23

Reputation: 6825

Tool to read Ansible debug module JSON output

When I run Ansible debug module and print out some variable, I get message that looks similar to JSON, but is not really JSON and can't be parsed into JSON directly. It looks like this:

ok: [zoo_01] => {
    "msg": "Hostvars {u'zoo_01': {u'module_setup': True, u'ansible_distribution_version'...

When I replace all of the following, it becomes parsable as JSON

u'    -> "
'     -> "
True  -> true
False -> false
None  -> null

Is there any tool that can parse it as JSON and show me it's nice structure? I would like something like this: https://codebeautify.org/online-json-editor

Or maybe this format has a name?

Upvotes: 1

Views: 3261

Answers (1)

Konstantin Suvorov
Konstantin Suvorov

Reputation: 68269

This is Python representation:

Use to_json filter to get JSON output. Or var instead of msg:

- debug:
    var: myvar

- debug:
    msg: "My JSON {{ myvar | to_json }}"

Upvotes: 2

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