How to unquote a json structure

[jean-christophe manciot]

One shell command returns a json structure, but ansible converts it into a string in the registered variable.

In order to access some attributes, this string needs to be unquoted, but how?

There is a quote filter, but there is no unquote filter in ansible or jinja2.

For instance, let's suppose a shell module returns the following registered variable:

    return:
      changed: true
      cmd: |-
        cmd_returning_json
      delta: '0:00:00.002283'
      end: '2022-07-28 11:09:17.921175'
      failed: false
      msg: ''
      rc: 0
      start: '2022-07-28 11:09:17.918892'
      stderr: ''
      stderr_lines: []
      stdout: '{"class": "data", "id": "a61b96e7-427e-493a-993c-c3efc8a16aa1", "size": "500GB", "type": "ssd"}'

How do we convert return.stdout into:

{"class": "data", "id": "a61b96e7-427e-493a-993c-c3efc8a16aa1", "size": "500GB", "type": "ssd"}

so that we can access for instance: 

return.stdout.id

[jean-christophe manciot]

It turns out there is no need for unquoting.

In my original issue, the returned structure was much more complex and included some strange new lines.

Removing all new lines with:

return.stdout |  regex_replace('\\n', '')
solves this issue.