ansible playbook in json format not working

[Narahari 'n' Savitha]

Hello Folkds:

Thank you in advance for your time and attention.

I wrote a playbook in the json format.

[
  {
    "name": "Test the json mode"
    "hosts": "cool_columbus",
    "tasks": [
      {
        "name": "First task"
        "shell": {
          "chdir": "/tmp",
          "free_form": "ls -l",
        }
      }
    ]
  }
]

when I run it with the command

 ansible-playbook test_playbook.json

ERROR! Syntax Error while loading YAML.

  expected ',' or '}', but got '<scalar>'

The error appears to have been in '/home/pidansible/test_playbook.json': line 4, column 5, but may

be elsewhere in the file depending on the exact syntax problem.

The offending line appears to be:

What am I doing wrong and how to run this ?

Please help.

-N 

[Michael Mullay]

Playbooks must be in yaml. Inventories can be in json (at least dynamic inventories require it), but not the playbooks themselves.

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[James Cassell]

On Wed, Jun 26, 2019, at 6:08 PM, Narahari 'n' Savitha wrote:
> Hello Folkds:
>
> Thank you in advance for your time and attention.
>
> I wrote a playbook in the json format.
>
> > [
> > {
> > "name": "Test the json mode"

Missing a comma.

> > "hosts": "cool_columbus",
> > "tasks": [
> > {
> > "name": "First task"

Missing comma.

> > "shell": {
> > "chdir": "/tmp",
> > "free_form": "ls -l",
> > }
> > }
> > ]
> > }
> > ]
>
> when I run it with the command
>

> >> ansible-playbook test_playbook.jsonERROR! Syntax Error while loading YAML. expected ',' or '}', but got '<scalar>'
> >> The error appears to have been in '/home/pidansible/test_playbook.json': line 4, column 5, but maybe elsewhere in the file depending on the exact syntax problem.

> >> The offending line appears to be:
>
>
> What am I doing wrong and how to run this ?
>
> Please help.
>
> -N

V/r,
James Cassell

[Narahari 'n' Savitha]

Thank You James for pointing out the mistakes.

I fixed them and now the json playbook works.

[Narahari 'n' Savitha]

James pointed out the mistakes in the json and now it works.

I am able to use json as valid format for playboks.

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[Narahari 'n' Savitha]

On Wednesday, June 26, 2019 at 6:08:25 PM UTC-4, Narahari 'n' Savitha wrote:

Hello Folkds:

Thank you in advance for your time and attention.

I wrote a playbook in the json format.

[
  {
    "name": "Test the json mode"==> put ,
    "hosts": "cool_columbus",
    "tasks": [
      {
        "name": "First task" ==> put ,

        "shell": {
          "chdir": "/tmp",
          "free_form": "ls -l",
        }
      }
    ]
  }
]

[Angel Rengifo Cancino]

Just for curiosity, why are you using json instead of yaml?

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[Brian Coca]

JSON is a subset of YAML, so anything you see in YAML can be done in
JSON, .. the real question is SHOULD YOU?
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Brian Coca