Sending JSON through URI module

[Junaid Farooq]

I am doing this task

- name: Register evercam-media local commit hash
  local_action:
    shell
    chdir={{local_media_dir}}
    git log --pretty='{"sha":"%h", "author_name":"%an", "author_name":"%ae", "unix_timestamp":"%at", "subject":"%s", "branch":"%d"}' | head -1
  register: local_commit_info


- set_fact:
    commit: "{{ local_commit_info.stdout }}"

which creates such as

changed: [media.evercam.io -> localhost] => {
    "changed": true,
    "cmd": "git log --pretty='{\"sha\":\"%h\", \"author_name\":\"%an\", \"author_name\":\"%ae\", \"unix_timestamp\":\"%at\", \"subject\":\"%s\", \"branch\":\"%d\"}' | head -1",
    "delta": "0:00:00.005962",
    "end": "2019-12-11 19:24:54.788804",
    "invocation": {
        "module_args": {
            "_raw_params": "git log --pretty='{\"sha\":\"%h\", \"author_name\":\"%an\", \"author_name\":\"%ae\", \"unix_timestamp\":\"%at\", \"subject\":\"%s\", \"branch\":\"%d\"}' | head -1",
            "_uses_shell": true,
            "argv": null,
            "chdir": "/home/junaid/evercam/evercam-server",
            "creates": null,
            "executable": null,
            "removes": null,
            "stdin": null,
            "stdin_add_newline": true,
            "strip_empty_ends": true,
            "warn": true
        }
    },
    "rc": 0,
    "start": "2019-12-11 19:24:54.782842",
    "stderr": "",
    "stderr_lines": [],
    "stdout": "{\"sha\":\"aca4ef2\", \"author_name\":\"Junaid Farooq\", \"author_name\":\"jun...@evercam.io\", \"unix_timestamp\":\"1576042588\", \"subject\":\"Merge pull request #1240 from evercam/delete_timelapse\", \"branch\":\" (HEAD -> master, origin/master, origin/HEAD)\"}",
    "stdout_lines": [
        "{\"sha\":\"aca4ef2\", \"author_name\":\"Junaid Farooq\", \"author_name\":\"jun...@evercam.io\", \"unix_timestamp\":\"1576042588\", \"subject\":\"Merge pull request #1240 from evercam/delete_timelapse\", \"branch\":\" (HEAD -> master, origin/master, origin/HEAD)\"}"
    ]
}
Read vars_file 'common-vars.yml'
Read vars_file 'media-vars.yml'
Read vars_file '../private_vars_media.yml'


TASK [media : set_fact] *******************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************
task path: /home/junaid/evercam/evercam-devops/ansible/media/tasks/hotcode.yml:8
ok: [media.evercam.io] => {
    "ansible_facts": {
        "commit": {
            "author_name": "jun...@evercam.io",
            "branch": " (HEAD -> master, origin/master, origin/HEAD)",
            "sha": "aca4ef2",
            "subject": "Merge pull request #1240 from evercam/delete_timelapse",
            "unix_timestamp": "1576042588"
        }
    },
    "changed": false
}

All I want to do is to send the commit to a URL as a post request.

I am doing this way

- uri:
    url: "http://www.myapi.com/create"
    method: POST
    return_content: yes
    body_format: json
    HEADER_Content-Type: "application/json"
    body: "{{ commit }}"

But I am getting error such as

fatal: [media.evercam.io]: FAILED! => {
    "changed": false,
    "invocation": {
        "module_args": {
            "HEADER_Content-Type": "application/json",
            "body": {
                "author_name": "jun...@evercam.io",
                "branch": " (HEAD -> master, origin/master, origin/HEAD)",
                "sha": "aca4ef2",
                "subject": "Merge pull request #1240 from evercam/delete_timelapse",
                "unix_timestamp": "1576042588"
            },
            "body_format": "json",
            "method": "POST",
            "return_content": true,
            "url": "http://www.myapi.com/create"
        }
    },
    "msg": "Unsupported parameters for (uri) module: HEADER_Content-Type Supported parameters include: attributes, backup, body, body_format, client_cert, client_key, content, creates, delimiter, dest, directory_mode, follow, follow_redirects, force, force_basic_auth, group, headers, http_agent, method, mode, owner, regexp, remote_src, removes, return_content, selevel, serole, setype, seuser, src, status_code, timeout, unix_socket, unsafe_writes, url, url_password, url_username, use_proxy, validate_certs"
}

Can you point where I am wrong? I also tried Just using curl which didn't work as well?

[Junaid Farooq]

I have removed headers but now I am getting this error

fatal: [media.evercam.io]: FAILED! => {
    "changed": false,

    "content": "",
    "elapsed": 0,
    "invocation": {
        "module_args": {
            "attributes": null,
            "backup": null,
            "body": {

                "commit": {
                    "author_name": "jun...@evercam.io",
                    "branch": " (HEAD -> master, origin/master, origin/HEAD)",
                    "sha": "aca4ef2",
                    "subject": "Merge pull request #1240 from evercam/delete_timelapse",
                    "unix_timestamp": "1576042588"
                }
            },

            "body_format": "json",
            "client_cert": null,
            "client_key": null,
            "content": null,
            "creates": null,
            "delimiter": null,
            "dest": null,
            "directory_mode": null,
            "follow": false,
            "follow_redirects": "safe",
            "force": false,
            "force_basic_auth": false,
            "group": null,
            "headers": {
                "Content-Type": "application/json"
            },
            "http_agent": "ansible-httpget",
            "method": "POST",
            "mode": null,
            "owner": null,
            "regexp": null,
            "remote_src": null,
            "removes": null,
            "return_content": true,
            "selevel": null,
            "serole": null,
            "setype": null,
            "seuser": null,
            "src": null,
            "status_code": [
                200
            ],
            "timeout": 30,
            "unix_socket": null,
            "unsafe_writes": null,
            "url": "http://127.0.0.1:3000/v1/server/deployed",
            "url_password": null,
            "url_username": null,
            "use_proxy": true,
            "validate_certs": true
        }
    },
    "msg": "Status code was -1 and not [200]: Request failed: <urlopen error [Errno 111] Connection refused>",
    "redirected": false,
    "status": -1,
    "url": "http://127.0.0.1:3000/v1/server/deployed"
}

    "stdout": "{\"sha\":\"aca4ef2\", \"author_name\":\"Junaid Farooq\", \"author_name\":\"junaid@evercam.io\", \"unix_timestamp\":\"1576042588\", \"subject\":\"Merge pull request #1240 from evercam/delete_timelapse\", \"branch\":\" (HEAD -> master, origin/master, origin/HEAD)\"}",
    "stdout_lines": [
        "{\"sha\":\"aca4ef2\", \"author_name\":\"Junaid Farooq\", \"author_name\":\"junaid@evercam.io\", \"unix_timestamp\":\"1576042588\", \"subject\":\"Merge pull request #1240 from evercam/delete_timelapse\", \"branch\":\" (HEAD -> master, origin/master, origin/HEAD)\"}"

[Abhijeet Kasurde]

 Hi Junaid,

You can convert stdout to json using `jq` binary and `from_json` filter like -

  tasks:
    - name: local
      local_action:
        shell
        chdir=/Volumes/data/src/ansible/
        git log --pretty='["%h", "%an", "%ae", "%ad", "%s"]' | head -1 | jq
      register: local_commit_info

    - set_fact:
        m: "{{ local_commit_info.stdout | from_json }}"

    - debug:
        msg: "{{ m[1] }}"

You can `m` directly in your next call.