Reading a json file using Ansible

[Shwetha Hadimani]

Hi,

I have  a json file called "develop.json" like below,

{

    "releasedata": {

        "release_name": "abcd",

        "release_number": "22"

    }

}

I want to read this file in ansible and get the value for "release_name" key. I have tried the below code

---

  - hosts: localhost

    vars:

       version_file: "{{ lookup('file', '/opt/develop.json')  | from_json }}"

    tasks:

       - name: print json file

        debug: msg= "{{ version_file.releasedata.release_name }}"

But I am getting this error:

 {"failed": true, "msg": "the field 'args' has an invalid value ([]), and could not be converted to an dict

So I am assuming this is not the right way to read a json file in ansible. Kindly tell me the right way to read a json file. Thank you.