How can I loop through json object REST API body in Ansible? - json

Question

When using Ansible I am able to execute when passed one-by-one like this:
---
- name: Using a REST API
become: false
hosts: localhost
gather_facts: false
tasks:
- debug:
msg: “Let’s get list of Interfaces”
- name: Adding a Bridge-Interface
uri:
url: https://router/rest/interface/bridge
method: PUT
validate_certs: false
url_username: ansible
url_password: ansible
force_basic_auth: yes
body_format: json
status_code: 201
body: '{"name":"bridge_ansible"}'
register: results
- debug:
var: results
I want to iterate through a set of commands so I thought of looping, but that does not work for me, I am using this code:
---
- name: Using a REST API
become: false
hosts: localhost
gather_facts: false
tasks:
- debug:
msg: “Let’s get list of Interfaces”
- name: Adding a Bridge-Interface
uri:
url: "{{item.url}}"
method: PUT
validate_certs: false
url_username: ansible
url_password: ansible
force_basic_auth: yes
body_format: json
status_code: 201
body: "{{item.body}}"
register: results
loop:
- {body:'{"name":"bridge_ansible"}', url:'https://router/rest/interface/bridge'}
- {body:'{"address":"6.6.6.6", "interface":"bridge_ansible"}', url:'https://router/rest/ip/address'}
- debug:
var: results
I get an error for this {body:'{"name":"bridge_ansible"}', url:'https://router/rest/interface/bridge'} in the json object { I think my syntax is not correct but cannot understand the correct thing. Can someone please help
ERROR! We were unable to read either as JSON nor YAML, these are the errors we got from each:
JSON: Expecting value: line 1 column 1 (char 0)
Syntax Error while loading YAML.
did not find expected ',' or '}'
The error appears to be in '/ansible-playbook/1-demo.yaml': line 23, column 19, but may
be elsewhere in the file depending on the exact syntax problem.
The offending line appears to be:
loop:
- {body:'\{"name":"bridge_ansible"\}', url:'https://router/rest/interface/bridge'}
^ here
This one looks easy to fix. It seems that there is a value started
with a quote, and the YAML parser is expecting to see the line ended
with the same kind of quote. For instance:
when: "ok" in result.stdout
Could be written as:
when: '"ok" in result.stdout'
Or equivalently:
when: "'ok' in result.stdout"
We could be wrong, but this one looks like it might be an issue with
unbalanced quotes. If starting a value with a quote, make sure the
line ends with the same set of quotes. For instance this arbitrary
example:
foo: "bad" "wolf"
Could be written as:
foo: '"bad" "wolf"'
Thanks