Scott,
Was there ever a response on this or a fix you found?
Thanks,
Jason
On Tuesday, March 3, 2015 at 9:31:26 PM UTC-8, Scott Rankin wrote:
>
> Hey ansible community,
>
> I'm trying to do something which I thought would be fairly
> straightforward, but I've run into a number of bugs/roadblocks and so I'm
> coming to the community for some help solving my problem.
>
> What I'm trying to do is this: create a JSON request body and send a URI
> request to a server. Here's a slimmed-down version of my playbook:
>
> ---
> - hosts: 127.0.0.1
> connection: local
> vars:
> cpu_count: 3
> bar: "whooo"
> bar2: "wheee"
> tasks:
> - set_fact:
> request_body: {
> "cpus": "{{cpu_count}}",
> "mem": 1500,
> "env": {
> "FOO": "{{bar}}",
> "FOO2": "{{bar2}}",
> },
> "constraints": [["123", "456"]]
> }
>
> - name: Kick off app
> uri: url=http://requestb.in/1laafhn1
> method=PUT
> body='{{ request_body | to_json }}'
> HEADER_Content-Type="application/json"
> status_code=200,201,204
>
>
> When I run this, I get this string posted to my RequestBin:
>
> {"mem": 1500, "cpus": "3", "env": {"FOO": "whooo", "FOO2": "wheee"},
> "constraints": [["123", "456"]]}
>
> The problem with this is that I don't want the "cpus" variable quoted - it's
> an integer, and my actual target server rejects it. I believe this is a known
> issue (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/9362). And no, {{cpu_count
> | int}} doesn't help. It still quotes the value in the resulting JSON.
>
> In an attempt to work around this, I tried doing something like this:
>
> - set_fact:
> request_string: '{{ request_body | to_json | regex_replace("cpus.:
> .([0-9\\.]+).", "cpus\": \\1") }}'
>
> - name: Kick off app
> uri: url=http://requestb.in/1laafhn1
> method=PUT
> body='{{ request_string }}'
> HEADER_Content-Type="application/json"
> status_code=200,201,204
>
> This has the (somewhat strange to me) effect of stripping all quotes from the
> value PUT on the server:
>
> {mem: 1500, cpus: 3, env: {FOO: whooo, FOO2: wheee}, constraints: [[123,
> 456]]}
>
> And changing the single quotes in the URI module to double quotes makes my
> JSON quoted with single quotes. Also not helpful.
>
> Lastly, I've tried to use the URI module with YAML-style output:
>
> - name: Kick off app
> uri:
> url: http://requestb.in/1laafhn1
> method: PUT
> body: '{{ request_string }}'
> HEADER_Content-Type: "application/json"
> status_code: 200,201,204
>
> This results in an ansible stack trace, which appears to be this bug:
> https://github.com/ansible/ansible-modules-core/issues/265
>
> If you've read this far - I would love some alternative suggestions on how to
> accomplish this using Ansible. Thank you in advance!
>
>
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