'utf8' codec can't decode byte 0xff in position 0: invalid start byte"

[Suporter]

Getting the subject mentioned error while reading a compressed json, any workaround for this?

    - name: read local file
      set_fact:
       reg_changes: "{{ lookup('file', '/home/tess/xl.json') | from_json }}"                    
      delegate_to: localhost

[J Hawkesworth]

Try using a site like jsonlint.com to check if your xl.json is actually valid JSON.

[Toshio Kuratomi]

If it's compressed, you probably need to uncompress it first.  The from_json filter doesn't have builtin support for decompressing files.  (I don't believe any of our filters do)

-Toshio

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