Access all the sub-elements in a yaml map

[Naween Ghimire]

Hi I have been trying to access all the sub-elements available in a map but i am unable to do so:

Here's my usecase:

A yaml map is defined as follows:

object:

    element1: "value1"

    element2: "value2"

    element3: "value3"

    ...

    ...

    ...

    elementn: "valuen"

In a task i need to access all the values (value1,value2,value3,...,valuen)

I tried the following:

- name: pass values to script

      debug: "msg={{ item }}"

      with_items:

        - "{{ object }}"

But this doesn't seem to work.

Whereas the following works,

- name: pass values to script

      debug: "msg={{ item }}"

      with_items:

        - "{{ object.element1 }}"

        - "{{ object.element2 }}"

But this is not scalable, and i have a usecase where the number of elements might vary. Is there a way to get this done in ansible ?

Regards,

Naween

[benno joy]

i think what you need is with_dict: object and use it via item.key and item.value

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[Naween Ghimire]

Thanks. Works as expected.