How to prevent ansible to suppress escaped quotes?

[Gaétan QUENTIN@Work]

Hi,


 in a json file we have this escaped quoted part:

{

 inputs: {

   "value": "my \" value \" is here"

[ .. ]


this json file is read from extra var at command line: -e "@inputs.json"


then a template jinja use it and create another json file . The j2
template use {{ inputs.value  }} which become:  "my  value  is here"


-> protected quotes have disappeared, which make our final system to hang.


How to prevent this?


Regards

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[Felix Fontein]

Hi,

I tried to replicate this, but without success. The quotes were there.
So you probably have to provide more information.

> {
>
>  inputs: {
>
>    "value": "my \" value \" is here"
>
> [ .. ]

Please note that it must be "inputs" for a proper JSON file. Also
please note that the "value" line you inserted above contains some
special invisible characters that trip up both JSON and YAML parsers.

Cheers,
Felix

[Gaétan QUENTIN]

Sorry i have simplified too much my example.

Here is the whole thing:

inputs_with_escaped_quotes.json :

{

    "inputs": {

        "value": "this is a \" escaped quoted \"  \" string \"  yeah..."

    }

}

 

 

Tasks :

Escaped_quotes.yml :

---

- name: escaped quotes set_fact

  set_fact:

    jsoncode: "{{ lookup('template', 'template_with_escaped_quotes.j2') }}"

 

- name: Save file

  local_action:

    module: copy

    content: "{{ jsoncode }}"

    dest: "{{ role_path }}/files/output.json"

 

 

Templates  template_with_escaped_quotes.j2:

{

    "result_value": "{{ inputs.value }}"

}

 

 

 

Json result : output.json :

{

    "result_value": "this is a " escaped quoted "  " string "  yeah..."

}

Regards

[Stefan Hornburg (Racke)]

On 23/08/2021 12:32, Gaétan QUENTIN wrote:
> Sorry i have simplified too much my example.
> Here is the whole thing:
>

Using templates for structured data like XML and JSON is a bad idea in most cases (IMHO).

Regards
Racke

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[Dick Visser]

Yup.
I would suggest from_json and to_json etc.

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[Gaétan QUENTIN]

hi,

the inputs are read from extra variable :  -e "@inputs.json". So they  are already turned into dict. Not enough?

Regards

Gaétan

[Brian Coca]

your `jsoncode` is a misnomer at that point since it will
automatically transform into a python structure internally, use
|string or |to_json to avoid this.

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