Concatenate variable and string in looping with_items

[Vishal Bobade]

Is it possible to concatenate like below?

    - name: Retaining latest backup directory 

      shell:  find $(pwd)/*backup* -type d -prune -exec ls -d {} \; |tail -1

      register: import_back_up_dir

    - name: Import dashboard

      grafana_dashboard:

        state: present

        message: Updated by ansible

        overwrite: no

        path: "{{ item }}"

      with_items:

         - "{{ import_back_up_dir }} + SonarQube_Dashboard.json"    >>>>>> I am trying to concatenate like this however this is not working - could some one please suggest how can we achieve this concatenation.

[Stefan Hornburg (Racke)]

On 1/31/20 6:17 PM, Vishal Bobade wrote:
> *_Is it possible to concatenate like below?_*

>
>     - name: Retaining latest backup directory 
>       shell:  find $(pwd)/*backup* -type d -prune -exec ls -d {} \; |tail -1
>       register: import_back_up_dir
>
>     - name: Import dashboard
>       grafana_dashboard:
>         state: present
>         message: Updated by ansible
>         overwrite: no
>         path: "{{ item }}"
>       with_items:

>          - "{{ import_back_up_dir }} + SonarQube_Dashboard.json"    _>>>>>> I am trying to concatenate like this however

> this is not working - could some one please suggest how can we achieve this concatenation.

Maybe you give us the objective of your task first ...

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[Vishal Bobade]

Thanks Stefan for looking into this. actually I want to import some grafana dashboards and I need to map this import_back_up_dir (which I cannot hardcode) to appropriate json files. so I want to find a way to concatenate these.

[Vishal Bobade]

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On Friday, January 31, 2020 at 11:07:36 PM UTC+5:30, Stefan Hornburg (Racke) wrote:

On 1/31/20 6:17 PM, Vishal Bobade wrote:
> *_Is it possible to concatenate like below?_*
>
>     - name: Retaining latest backup directory 
>       shell:  find $(pwd)/*backup* -type d -prune -exec ls -d {} \; |tail -1
>       register: import_back_up_dir
>
>     - name: Import dashboard
>       grafana_dashboard:
>         state: present
>         message: Updated by ansible
>         overwrite: no
>         path: "{{ item }}"
>       with_items:
>          - "{{ import_back_up_dir }} + SonarQube_Dashboard.json"    _>>>>>> I am trying to concatenate like this however
> this is not working - could some one please suggest how can we achieve this concatenation.

Maybe you give us the objective of your task first ...

Regards
         Racke
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[Vishal Bobade]

Thanks Stefan for looking into this. actually I want to import some grafana dashboards and I need to map this import_back_up_dir (which I cannot hardcode) to appropriate json files. so I want to find a way to concatenate these.

[Kai Stian Olstad]

On 31.01.2020 18:17, Vishal Bobade wrote:
> *Is it possible to concatenate like below?*

>
> - name: Retaining latest backup directory
> shell: find $(pwd)/*backup* -type d -prune -exec ls -d {} \;
> |tail -1
> register: import_back_up_dir
>
> - name: Import dashboard
> grafana_dashboard:
> state: present
> message: Updated by ansible
> overwrite: no
> path: "{{ item }}"
> with_items:
> - "{{ import_back_up_dir }} + SonarQube_Dashboard.json"

> *>>>>>> I am trying to concatenate like this however this is not
> working -
> could some one please suggest how can we achieve this concatenation.*

Concatenate need to be done in inside of {{ }} and use tilde

"{{ import_back_up_dir ~ 'SonarQube_Dashboard.json' }}"

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[Vishal Bobade]

HI kai,

thanks for the response. however I am trying to use inside looping with_items it isn't working.

 "msg": "error : Can't load json file [Errno 2] No such file or directory: '{\\'stderr_lines\\':

[Vishal Bobade]

trying like this 

 with_items:

        - "{{ dashboards_imported_from_latest_backup ~ '/Artifactory_Monitoring.json' }}"

[Kai Stian Olstad]

On 01.02.2020 06:55, Vishal Bobade wrote:
> trying like this
>
> with_items:
> - "{{ dashboards_imported_from_latest_backup ~
> '/Artifactory_Monitoring.json' }}"
>
>
>
> On Saturday, February 1, 2020 at 11:24:05 AM UTC+5:30, Vishal Bobade
> wrote:
>>
>> HI kai,
>>
>> thanks for the response. however I am trying to use inside looping
>> with_items it isn't working.
>>
>> "msg": "error : Can't load json file [Errno 2] No such file or
>> directory:
>> '{\\'stderr_lines\\':

This will only be one item so you don't need to use with_items.
Anyway, since you only need the text it should be like this

with_items:
- "{{
dashboards_imported_from_latest_backup}}/Artifactory_Monitoring.json"


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[Vishal Bobade]

Thanks Kai. No actually this is not going to be one item only as it should be done for almost 7-8 json files. so i think the below trick you shown I am going to try that right now and see if that works forme. Thanks again , cheers!

[Vishal Bobade]

I tried the above what Kai suggested however that is not working and unable to get the particular json for me from the specific backup dir. However I could find a way to get this done  as shown below - this way we can get the output from the variable line by line.

 with_items:

        - "{{ dashboards_imported_from_latest_backup.stdout_lines[2] }}"

        - "{{ dashboards_imported_from_latest_backup.stdout_lines[3] }}"

        - "{{ dashboards_imported_from_latest_backup.stdout_lines[4] }}"