On Fri, 26 May 2023 at 19:40, Joefrey Kimmel <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> Correct. The control node is an Ansible Tower server that we have limited
> access to.
That indeed does not leave much.
I'm not sure but the problem may be that you're using the quoted json
style to define your list of key/values.
If I lay that out as basic yaml (same data structure, but a bit
cleaner to look at), it does seem to work for me:
---
- name: xml slurp and filter
hosts: localhost
connection: local
gather_facts: no
tasks:
- name: Create dictionary of values from test.xml
ansible.builtin.set_fact:
file_xml_data: '{{ file_xml_data | default({}) |
combine({item.key: item.value}) }}'
loop:
- key: cifs_share
value: "{{ file_xml | regex_search('<SharedPath>(.+)</',
'\\1') | first }}"
- debug:
var: file_xml_data
vars:
file_xml: |
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<ClusterParameters xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema";
xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance";>
<SharedPath>\\somewhere.com\adata\aclusters\bytes</SharedPath>
</ClusterParameters>
gives:
dick.visser@GA0267 ~$ ansible-playbook work/tasks/xml4.yml
[WARNING]: No inventory was parsed, only implicit localhost is available
PLAY [filter] ******************************************************************
TASK [Create dictionary of values from test.xml] *******************************
ok: [localhost] => (item={'key': 'cifs_share', 'value':
'\\\\somewhere.com\\adata\\aclusters\\bytes'})
TASK [debug] *******************************************************************
ok: [localhost] =>
file_xml_data:
cifs_share: \\somewhere.com\adata\aclusters\bytes
PLAY RECAP *********************************************************************
localhost : ok=2 changed=0 unreachable=0
failed=0 skipped=0 rescued=0 ignored=0
Still, DIY string parsing of XML is never bullet proof. What happens
if things span multiple lines, etc etc.
In short, YMMV.
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