uri_module POST with template as body, is it possible?

[Pär Svensson]

Hello!

I'm trying to make a task that uses a REST api to do some final configuration of a previously installed component.

I want to make a POST request with a body that is a template that uses host specific variables.

The closest i've come up with is the following:

- name: Adding datasource via http api

  uri:

    url: http://{{ inventory_hostname }}:3000/api/datasources

    method: POST

    body_format: json

    HEADER_Content-Type: "application/json"

    body: "{{ lookup('file' , 'roles/grafana/templates/datasource.json.j2') }}"

which sends the template-file as body, but unfortunately without any variables substituted...

Any idea how i should approach the problem?

[Toshio Kuratomi]

I believe that using the template lookup instead of the file lookup is
what you want. So something like:

body: "{{ lookup('template',
'roles/grafana/templates/datasource.json.js') }}"

-Toshio

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[Pär Svensson]

Thanks for the help Toshio, i have verified that using the template lookup does exactly what I want!

To help others, also note that the path to the template is relative to the location of the task file that invoked it.

/Pär

[Senthilkumar Ganesan]

Even I've tried with same approach, but getting an error. Can you show the content of datasource.json.j2 file

Thanks!
Senthil

[Aleksandar Kasabov]

One could even skip the roles/grafana/templates/ part in the lookup:

body: "{{lookup('template', 'http/updateRepository.txt')}}"