I get "failed to combine variables, expected dicts but got a 'AnsibleUnsafeText' and a 'dict' when I use folded or literal style

[Norbert Klamann]

I want to copy some data from obne dictioneary to teh other and use a task like this, which works fine:

```

    - name: Create dg_helper for usage information about data_groups

      ansible.builtin.set_fact:

        dg_helper: "{{ dg_helper| default({}) | combine( { item: {'handled_in': [], 'backed_up_in': [], 'content' : data_groups[item].content }} )      }}"

      with_items:

        "{{ data_groups }}"

      no_log: true

      tags: data_overview

```

When I used folded or literal style  used folded stype and literal style, I get  the above mentioned error :

```

    - name: Create dg_helper for usage information about data_groups

      ansible.builtin.set_fact:

        dg_helper: |

          "{{ dg_helper| default({}) | combine(

              { item:

                {'handled_in':[], 'backed_up_in':[], 'content': data_groups[item].content }

              }

            )      }}"

      with_items:

        "{{ data_groups }}"

      tags: data_overview

```

This gives :

```

ansible-playbook   --tags data_overview   reports_scripts_pb.yml

PLAY [Generate Reports] ****************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************

TASK [Create dg_helper for usage information about data_groups] ************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************
ok: [localhost] => (item=assets)
fatal: [localhost]: FAILED! => {"msg": "failed to combine variables, expected dicts but got a 'AnsibleUnsafeText' and a 'dict': \n\"\\\"{'assets': {'handled_in': [], 'backed_up_in': [], 'content': 'Software, Graphiken, Fonts usw'}}\\\"\\n\"\n{\"audio\": {\"handled_in\": [], \"backed_up_in\": [], \"content\": \"Musik, H\\u00f6rspiele, H\\u00f6rb\\u00fccher\"}}"}

```

Why is this ?

Thanks a lot

Norbert

[Norbert Klamann]

I should show the source datastructure , i think . It looks like this:

```

data_groups: {

  "assets": {content: "Software, Graphiken, Fonts usw", backup_required: true },

  "audio": {content: "Musik, Hörspiele, Hörbücher", backup_required: true },

  "fileserver": {content: "Samba-Konfguration", backup_required: true },

  "fossil": {content: "Fossil-Repositories", backup_required: true }

}

```

And the error message suggests that it tried to,load the data from 'audio' in the entry for 'assets', but why ?

BTW changing the | operator above to > does not change the problem

[Todd Lewis]

You are over quoting. When you switch to "|"-style, you should then remove the beginning and ending double-quotes.

[Norbert Klamann]

Ah, many thanks . That did it !