How to update existing JSON with a smaller subset JSON in Ansible? - json

Question

I have this task:
- name: Get Status page url
uri:
url: "{{ responseversion.json.results[0]._links.self }}?expand=version,body.storage"
method: GET
return_content: yes
body_format: json
force_basic_auth: yes
headers:
Authorization: Basic blablab
register: responseurl
- name: print body without updates
debug: var=responseurl
- debug:
msg: "{{ responseurl | combine({'json':{'body':{ 'version':{'minorEdit':true, 'number':responseversion.json.results[0].version.number+1} }}}) }}"
Basically I get a response, get the page "version" and "minorEdit" keys from response and replace them and their values in the original response. There are other keys besides "version", I need to keep them also, as well as the neighboring keys inside "version" key.
The targeted "version" key before update looks like this:
"version": {
"_expandable": {
"content": "/rest/api/content/164794022"
},
"_links": {
"self": "https://hostname.com/confluence/rest/experimental/content/164794022/version/4"
},
"by": {
"_expandable": {
"status": ""
},
"_links": {
"self": "https://hostname.com/confluence/rest/api/user?key=ff80808164c5cf240164c6e351d30002"
},
"displayName": "my name",
"profilePicture": {
"height": 48,
"isDefault": false,
"path": "/confluence/download/attachments/98107443/user-avatar",
"width": 48
},
"type": "known",
"userKey": "ff80808164c5cf240164c6e351d30002",
"username": "my name"
},
"hidden": false,
"message": "",
"minorEdit": false,
"number": 4,
"when": "2021-08-25T15:36:35.285+03:00"
}
The final debug task print the version key like this:
"json": {
"body": {
"version": {
"minorEdit": true,
"number": 5
}
}
}
You can see the JSON for replacement inline, inside the "combine" function call. Whole JSON key gets overriden.