how to set ansible fact from an array with whitespace - arrays

Question

i am trying to set facts from a json array, since the key contains space i am unable to parse, can someone help me here,
i want to set fact as "name": "IN-FG-04" when "vdom": "vdom-shop"
Please see my sample playbook entry
- name: Iterate JSON
set_fact:
app_item: "{{ item['scope member'] }}"
with_items: "{{ result.results }}"
register: app_result
please see the json input and this is an output of my previous task
{
"msg": {
"ansible_facts": {
"discovered_interpreter_python": "/usr/bin/python"
},
"changed": false,
"failed": false,
"msg": "Custom Query Success",
"results": [
{
"name": "FG-04-Policy",
"obj ver": 3,
"oid": 1196,
"package settings": {
"central-nat": "disable",
"fwpolicy-implicit-log": "disable",
"fwpolicy6-implicit-log": "disable",
"inspection-mode": "proxy"
},
"scope member": [
{
"name": "IN-FG-04",
"vdom": "vdom-shop"
}
],
"type": "pkg"
},
{
"name": "FG-04-DC",
"obj ver": 23,
"oid": 1216,
"package settings": {
"central-nat": "disable",
"fwpolicy-implicit-log": "disable",
"fwpolicy6-implicit-log": "disable",
"inspection-mode": "proxy"
},
"scope member": [
{
"name": "IN-FG-04",
"vdom": "vdom1-dc"
}
],
"type": "pkg"
}
]
}
}

Answer 1

The snippet below
set fact as "name": "IN-FG-04" when "vdom": "vdom-shop"
- name: "set fact as name: IN-FG-04 when vdom: vdom-shop"
set_fact:
name: "{{ result.results|json_query('[].\"scope member\"[?\"vdom\"==`\"vdom-shop\"`].name')|flatten|first }}"
- debug:
var: name
gives:
"name": "IN-FG-04"

Answer 2

Note: although this is quite a good exercice for practicing loops, you should definitely consider fixing the previous task giving the result or write your own filter.
First of all, you are using register on a set_fact task. It is not an error in itself but is of very limited interest. This will register if you correctly assigned a value to a variable, not the values themselves. So you will never get the expected result with this.
What you want to do is to append items to a list while you are looping over your json in the set_fact task. This is done by initializing your set_fact variable to an empty list with the default filter on first loop and appending a new list with your items.
Moreover, since you need to look at several level of your object at the same time to take decisions, you need to use a subelements loop: loop level 0 on each result and level 1 on each element of the scope member list. On each iteration, you will append an object to the list. In the example below, I used the ternary filter to decide which name to include.
---
- name: SO Test
hosts: localhost
vars:
result: {
"ansible_facts": {
"discovered_interpreter_python": "/usr/bin/python"
},
"changed": false,
"failed": false,
"msg": "Custom Query Success",
"results": [
{
"name": "FG-04-Policy",
"obj ver": 3,
"oid": 1196,
"package settings": {
"central-nat": "disable",
"fwpolicy-implicit-log": "disable",
"fwpolicy6-implicit-log": "disable",
"inspection-mode": "proxy"
},
"scope member": [
{
"name": "IN-FG-04",
"vdom": "vdom-shop"
}
],
"type": "pkg"
},
{
"name": "FG-04-DC",
"obj ver": 23,
"oid": 1216,
"package settings": {
"central-nat": "disable",
"fwpolicy-implicit-log": "disable",
"fwpolicy6-implicit-log": "disable",
"inspection-mode": "proxy"
},
"scope member": [
{
"name": "IN-FG-04",
"vdom": "vdom1-dc"
}
],
"type": "pkg"
}
]
}
tasks:
- name: Get all names + vdom as requested in a list
set_fact:
app_result: >-
{{
app_result
| default([])
+
[{
'name': (item.1.vdom == 'vdom-shop') | ternary(item.0.name, item.1.name),
'vdom': item.1.vdom
}]
}}
loop: "{{ lookup('subelements', result.results, 'scope member') }}"
- name: show result
debug:
var: app_result
Which results in
PLAY [SO Test] *****************************************************************
TASK [Gathering Facts] *********************************************************
ok: [localhost]
TASK [Get all names + vdom as requested in a list] *****************************
ok: [localhost] => (item=[{'name': 'FG-04-Policy', 'obj ver': 3, 'oid': 1196, 'package settings': {'central-nat': 'disable', 'fwpolicy-implicit-log': 'disable', 'fwpolicy6-implicit-log': 'disable', 'inspection-mode': 'proxy'}, 'type': 'pkg'}, {'name': 'IN-FG-04', 'vdom': 'vdom-shop'}])
ok: [localhost] => (item=[{'name': 'FG-04-DC', 'obj ver': 23, 'oid': 1216, 'package settings': {'central-nat': 'disable', 'fwpolicy-implicit-log': 'disable', 'fwpolicy6-implicit-log': 'disable', 'inspection-mode': 'proxy'}, 'type': 'pkg'}, {'name': 'IN-FG-04', 'vdom': 'vdom1-dc'}])
TASK [show result] *************************************************************
ok: [localhost] => {
"app_result": [
{
"name": "FG-04-Policy",
"vdom": "vdom-shop"
},
{
"name": "IN-FG-04",
"vdom": "vdom1-dc"
}
]
}
PLAY RECAP *********************************************************************
localhost : ok=3 changed=0 unreachable=0 failed=0