Nested Loop Registed Variable

[Abhishek R.]

Hi folks,

Need some help related to registered variables.

The first task in my playbook performs some operations over a nested loop and I'm registering a variable for its results. The variable looks like this  -

"n_init": {

            "changed": true, 

            "failed": true, 

            "msg": "One or more items failed.", 

            "results": [

                {

                    "changed": true, 

                    ----

                    "item": [

                        "host1.abc.com", 

                        "1098"

                    ],

                    ----

                },

                {

                    "changed": true, 

                    ----

                    "item": [

                        "host2.abc.com", 

                        "1098"

                    ],

                    ----

                },

                ----

                {

                    "changed": true, 

                    ----

                    "item": [

                        "host10.abc.com", 

                        "1098"

                    ],

                    ----

                }    

            ]    

        }

In my second task, I need to execute a script and need to pass two parameters to it, both derived from the above variable. The two parameters should have contents like this -

param1 (string) - "host1.abc.com:host2.abc.com:...:host10.abc.com"

param2 (json array) - [{"host":"host1.abc.com","port":"1098"},{"host":"host2.abc.com","port":"1098"},...,{"host":"host10.abc.com","port":"1098"}]

I've tried out few Jinja2 filters and Ansible looping constructs, but am unable to get these values off the registered variable. Any suggestions?

Thanks in advance

Regards

Abhishek

[Abhishek R.]

Ok. Did not realize that we can use Jinja2 statement blocks right along with the modules and it doesn't always have to just a variable expression. Was able to do this by templating.

Regards

Abhishek