Extracting an IP address from a shell command's return using a regex

[J-P Methot]

Hi,

I've been stuck on this issue for a few days and I'm still unable to make it work, even though it should be doable. Essentially, I'm doing a shell command which gives me the following return (please don't suggest to use an ansible module for this, the ansible module and shade don't support choosing the subnet when associating a floatingip)

1. "stdout_lines": [
2.             "Created a new floatingip:",
3.             "+---------------------+--------------------------------------+",
4.             "| Field               | Value                                |",
5.             "+---------------------+--------------------------------------+",
6.             "| created_at          | 2018-02-19T09:32:44Z                 |",
7.             "| description         |                                      |",
8.             "| fixed_ip_address    | 10.80.16.60                          |",
9.             "| floating_ip_address | 192.168.0.1                        |",
10.             "| floating_network_id | uuid |",
11.             "| id                  | uuid |",
12.             "| port_id             | uuid |",
13.             "| project_id          | uuid     |",
14.             "| revision_number     | 1                                    |",
15.             "| router_id           | uuid |",
16.             "| status              | DOWN                                 |",
17.             "| tenant_id           | uuid     |",
18.             "| updated_at          | 2018-02-19T09:32:44Z                 |",
19.             "+---------------------+--------------------------------------+

Essentially, I want to extract the floating_ip_address line. So, I've been using a commonly recognized regex for IP address and, right now, I've reached the point where I have the following line:

1. - name: extract the ip line
2.   set_fact:
3.     regexcomp: "{{ rawfloating.stdout_lines | regex_search('floating_ip_address \\| \\b\\d{1,3}\\.\\d{1,3}\\.\\d{1,3}\\.\\d{1,3}\\b') }}"

Now ansible tells me that it's expecting a string or buffer. I'm not sure what to do anymore. Anyone has any ideas?

[Kai Stian Olstad]

On 19.02.2018 10:48, J-P Methot wrote:
> Essentially, I want to extract the floating_ip_address line. So, I've
> been
> using a commonly recognized regex for IP address and, right now, I've
> reached the point where I have the following line:
>
>

> 1. - name: extract the ip line
> 2. set_fact:
> 3. regexcomp: "{{ rawfloating.stdout_lines |

> regex_search('floating_ip_address \\|
> \\b\\d{1,3}\\.\\d{1,3}\\.\\d{1,3}\\.\\d{1,3}\\b') }}"
>
> Now ansible tells me that it's expecting a string or buffer. I'm not
> sure
> what to do anymore. Anyone has any ideas?

rawfloating.stdout_lines is a list not a sting, you need to use
rawfloating.stdout

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Kai Stian Olstad

[Brian Coca]

You need to use select to go over the list and get you the 'correct
line' as it is a 'list of lines', then you can extract the info from
that line.

Or just use stdout instead of stdout_lines.





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Brian Coca