How to generate JSON with escaped quotes

[oss.m...@gmail.com]

Hello,

I need to get JSON as string with quotes escaped by a single backslash. Original JSON is in file and I need to send it as string in another JSON body using URI module. I'm able to get only string with quotes escaped as \\\\" instead of \".

// file example.json
{"a":"b","c":"d"}

// I need to get {\"a\":\"b\",\"c\":\"d\"} to embed it in uri module

- uri

    url: http://...

    body: {"data":"{{ lookup('file', 'files/example.json') | replace('\"', '\\\"') }}"}

It generates: {\\\"a\\\":\\\"b\\\",\\\"c\\\":\\\"d\\\"}

It is not just escaping in debug, I save it to file using copy module and it has multiple backslashes.

Many thanks,

Petr

[Matt Martz]

I'd look at using the to_json filter instead of replace.

body: {"data":"{{ lookup('file', 'files/example.json') | to_json }}"}

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Matt Martz
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[oss.m...@gmail.com]

Thank you so much,

it did the trick... almost. I had to add single quotes enclosing the whole expression. Otherwise it defensively renders multiple escape backslashes.

Petr