It would be easier to rewrite your var to something like:
part:
- name: eyes
where: faces
colors:
- blue
- brown
- green
And then use:
- debug:
msg: "{{ item.0.name }}_{{ item.1 }}"
loop: "{{ part|subelements('colors') }}"
loop_control:
label: "{{ item.0.name }}_{{ item.1 }}"
Otherwise, using your current data structure:
- debug:
msg: "{{ item.0.0 }}_{{ item.1 }}"
loop: "{{ part|dictsort|subelements([1, 'colors']) }}"
loop_control:
label: "{{ item.0.0 }}_{{ item.1 }}"
>From there, you should be able to extrapolate to meet your specific needs,
potentially using the template module, to write out the files.
On Mon, Jun 10, 2019 at 11:24 AM Josh Smift <jsm...@care.com> wrote:
> I have a data structure like this:
>
> part:
> eyes:
> where: faces
> colors:
> - blue
> - brown
> - green
> hair:
> where: heads
> colors:
> - black
> - blond
> - brown
> - red
> toenails:
> where: feet
> colors:
> - pink
> - red
> - teal
>
> I want to create a file for each of the colors in the nested lists, with a
> name like /etc/parts/eyes_blue, and in that template, have things like
> "This is the file about things with blue eyes on their faces" or "This is
> the file about things with red toenails on their feet" (in
> /etc/parts/toenails_red). So I don't want to loop over the part dict, or
> the various dicts in the part dict, but over the colors lists -- but I need
> to do that while also keeping track of where in the data structure I am, so
> I don't want to just flatten them into one big list and iterate over it. If
> I were writing code for this, I'd do something like
>
> for (key, value) in part.items():
> for color in value['colors']:
> with open ("foodir/{}_{}".format(key, color), 'w') as fh:
> fh.write("This is the file about things with {} {} on their {}".
> format(color, key, value['where']))
>
> Is there a way to do that in an Ansible task somehow?
>
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