printing the items on dictionary format

[Veera]

I have the items defined in  the file  vars/myvars.yml as below:

world:

     asia:

         country:  india

         state:     maha         

         city:        mumbai

         

     n_america:

           nation:  canada

           province : quebec

           city:  montreal

When I try to  print them with a loop and subelements , i am missing something 

     - name:  play to print the details

       hosts: localhost

       gather_facts: no

       vars: 

            - vars/myvars.yml

       tasks:

           - name: printing the details of montreal

              debug:

                  msg: "{{  item[2] ['city']}}"

               loop: "{{   world | subelements('n_america') | dict2items   }}"

I receive a error like      "obj must be a list of dicts or a nested dict"}

                    

msg: with "world .n_america.city" will work 

I want to print this through loop only , as i need to process other items  also.

Thanks ,, 

  

[Avinash Jadhav]

Hi 

  you can try this way 

 

- name: printing the details of montreal
  debug:

    msg: "{{ item.value.city }}"

[Veera]

Thanks .. You mean with the "loop" enabled .. It did not work in both modes.

I am looking for a way so that this particular play will process  the variables(items) under n_america   in 

vars_files : 

    - vars/myvars.yml

[Todd Lewis]

Not sure what you're trying to do with subelements.

You could do this:

---
- name: Print world details

  hosts: localhost
  gather_facts: no
  vars:

    world:
      asia:
        country: india
        state:   maha
        city:    mumbai
      n_america:
        nation:   canada
        province: quebec
        city:     montreal

  tasks:
    - name: Printing details of montreal
      ansible.builtin.debug:
        msg: "{{ item.value.city | default(item.key ~ ' has no city') }}"
      loop: "{{ world | dict2items }}"
      when: item.key == 'n_america'

[Veera]

Thanks Todd,

It works . 

"Not sure what you're trying to do with subelements."   -  I want to avoid  printing messages of  other dict items ( asia) from vars  during the execution (in the  skipping), which prints some sensitive info on the screen.  
Turning on no_log  is not helpful in registering the output.
So , I was trying to call only the variables under n_america when I  execute the task  and i got it .  However for now skipping shows the items from asia during the play .