How can I pass extra variables to a shell script in my playbooks

[Conor Proud]

Hi,
This looks like the right place for posting questions- but please point me in the right direction if not.
I'm using the "extra variables" box on the awx web front-end to provide key-value pairs to a shell script in my playbook. The problem I'm having is how I can use those variables in my shell script, as they all appear as {u'key': u'value'} when I print them from within my shell script. This means that they don't conform to the standard JSON format (which uses double-quotes) and also as these are unicode strings I'm having other issues trying to pull out the information I want. What I would like is to easily put these key-value pairs into an associative array so I can access the values when they're required. Is there a good way to do this? At the moment I'm having to use sed to substitute out the bits I don't want (the single quotes have to be converted to double quotes and I have to remove the "u" character and then pass this to a package called jq to read the string as a JSON object). This feels like the wrong approach, so I'm look for some advice or examples of whether this can be done more elegantly?

[Jon Spriggs]

Hi Conor, sounds like you're probably doing this (untested pseudocode):

- shell: "/path/to/script {{ var }}"

  vars:

    var:

      some_key: some_data

Instead, you need to do something like this (untested pseudocode):

- shell: "/path/to/script {% for item in var|dict2items %}{{ item.key }}={{ item.value }}{% endfor %}"

  vars:

    var:

      some_key: some_data

If not, if you can post some example script, that might help...

All the best,

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