parse json response using ansible - json

Question

I need to parse the json response from an API request using ansible and then take action on items returned in the response. Here is part of my ansible playbook -
```- name: Invoke Import API
uri:
url: "{{ atl_bitbucket_dataset_url }}/rest/api/1.0/migration/imports"
user: admin
password: "{{ atl_bitbucket_admin_password }}"
method: POST
follow_redirects: yes
force_basic_auth: yes
creates: "{{ atl_product_home_shared }}/data/migration/import/lock.file"
body: "{ \"archivePath\": \"{{ atl_bitbucket_dataset_url | basename }}\" }"
body_format: json
return_content: yes
register: response
until: response.status == 200
retries: 6
delay: 15
failed_when: response.response.json.state != 'INITIALISING'
- name: get status of import
debug: var=response```
and here is the json response i got on a previous run
```TASK [bitbucket_dataset_restore : get status of import] ************************
ok: [localhost] => {
"response": {
"attempts": 1,
"cache_control": "no-cache, no-transform",
"changed": false,
"connection": "close",
"content": "{\"id\":1,\"initiator\":{\"name\":\"admin\",\"emailAddress\":\"admin#yourcompany.com\",\"id\":1,\"displayName\":\"AdminIstrator\",\"active\":true,\"slug\":\"admin\",\"type\":\"NORMAL\",\"links\":{\"self\":[{\"href\":\"http://bbdc-test-loadbala-t6vnlr2363vl-1404860112.us-west-2.elb.amazonaws.com/users/admin\"}]}},\"nodeId\":\"e72aa995-5016-4b2c-80e8-edba5eda3ab4\",\"progress\":{\"percentage\":0},\"startDate\":1574803309090,\"state\":\"INITIALISING\",\"type\":\"com.atlassian.bitbucket.migration.import\",\"updateDate\":1574803309090}",
"content_type": "application/json;charset=UTF-8",
"cookies": {},
"cookies_string": "",
"date": "Tue, 26 Nov 2019 21:21:49 GMT",
"elapsed": 1,
"failed": false,
"failed_when_result": False,
"json": {
"id": 1,
"initiator": {
"active": True,
"displayName": "AdminIstrator",
"emailAddress": "admin#yourcompany.com",
"id": 1,
"links": {
"self": [
{
"href": "http://bbdc-test-loadbala-t6vnlr2363vl-1404860112.us-west-2.elb.amazonaws.com/users/admin"
}
]
},
"name": "admin",
"slug": "admin",
"type": "NORMAL"
},
"nodeId": "e72aa995-5016-4b2c-80e8-edba5eda3ab4",
"progress": {
"percentage": 0
},
"startDate": 1574803309090,
"state": "INITIALISING",
"type": "com.atlassian.bitbucket.migration.import",
"updateDate": 1574803309090
},
"msg": "OK (unknown bytes)",
"redirected": False,
"status": 200,
"transfer_encoding": "chunked",
"url": "http://localhost:7990/rest/api/1.0/migration/imports",
"vary": "accept-encoding,x-auserid,cookie,x-ausername,accept-encoding",
"warnings": [
"The value True (type bool) in a string field was converted to u'True' (type string). If this does not look like what you expect, quote the entire value to ensure it does not change."
],
"x_arequestid": "#XXAH7Kx1281x1x0",
"x_asen": "SEN-500",
"x_auserid": "1",
"x_ausername": "admin",
"x_content_type_options": "nosniff"
}
}```
I want to retrieve the value "state": "INITIALISING" and the "id": 1. I have tried various methods response.response.json.state or response['response']['json']['state']. And it has not worked. Can anyone help me on how i can retrieve those values so i can use in other tasks further down?

Answer 1

I was able to fix this by adding is defined. So my code looks like this -
failed_when: output is defined and output.json is defined and output.json.state != 'INITIALISING'