Ansible nested json value extraction using json_query - json

Question

I am looking for some to extract the value from a nested json when the condition is matching
Here you can see three different items are listed. I wanted to exact item value
when the "target-name": "$variable"
For example if "target-name": "dev-cn-c2" then the item value will be "item": "Standard"
I tried json_query
results.results[?target-name==dev-cn-c2].item
and I am getting below response
[
"PolicyPKG1",
"PolicyPKG2",
"Standard"
]
Please see the full json
{
"results": {
"changed": false,
"msg": "All items completed",
"results": [
{
"ansible_facts": {
"checkpoint_access_layers": {
"access": true,
"access-layers": [
{
"domain": {
"domain-type": "global domain",
"name": "Global",
"uid": "1e294ce0-367a-11e3-aa6e-0800200c9a66"
},
"name": "Network",
"type": "access-layer",
"uid": "b94c472e-56df-42f7-9c28-2b0b3d470657"
},
{
"domain": {
"domain-type": "domain",
"name": "dom-cn-1",
"uid": "9597dde5-6c2e-4696-a4b9-0e9c5118947a"
},
"name": "PolicyPKG1 Network",
"type": "access-layer",
"uid": "96ab580d-939a-476f-ac25-48782a1a4ed9"
}
],
"color": "black",
"comments": "",
"desktop-security": false,
"domain": {
"domain-type": "domain",
"name": "dom-cn-1",
"uid": "9597dde5-6c2e-4696-a4b9-0e9c5118947a"
},
"icon": "Blades/Access",
"installation-targets": "all",
"meta-info": {
"creation-time": {
"iso-8601": "2019-07-30T15:38+0530",
"posix": 1564481316745
},
"creator": "admin",
"last-modifier": "admin",
"last-modify-time": {
"iso-8601": "2019-07-30T15:38+0530",
"posix": 1564481316745
},
"lock": "unlocked",
"validation-state": "ok"
},
"name": "PolicyPKG1",
"nat-policy": true,
"qos": false,
"qos-policy-type": "recommended",
"read-only": false,
"tags": [],
"threat-prevention": false,
"type": "package",
"uid": "231616b2-5ffa-4afe-9dcb-8fe1d0dd9ae3",
"vpn-traditional-mode": false
}
},
"ansible_loop_var": "item",
"changed": false,
"failed": false,
"invocation": {
"module_args": {
"name": "PolicyPKG1",
"uid": null
}
},
"item": "PolicyPKG1"
},
{
"ansible_facts": {
"checkpoint_access_layers": {
"access": true,
"access-layers": [
{
"domain": {
"domain-type": "global domain",
"name": "Global",
"uid": "1e294ce0-367a-11e3-aa6e-0800200c9a66"
},
"name": "Network",
"type": "access-layer",
"uid": "b94c472e-56df-42f7-9c28-2b0b3d470657"
},
{
"domain": {
"domain-type": "domain",
"name": "dom-cn-1",
"uid": "9597dde5-6c2e-4696-a4b9-0e9c5118947a"
},
"name": "PolicyPKG2 Network",
"type": "access-layer",
"uid": "9651831a-7e9e-4a60-848f-ca4e194e2393"
}
],
"color": "black",
"comments": "",
"desktop-security": false,
"domain": {
"domain-type": "domain",
"name": "dom-cn-1",
"uid": "9597dde5-6c2e-4696-a4b9-0e9c5118947a"
},
"icon": "Blades/Access",
"installation-targets": "all",
"meta-info": {
"creation-time": {
"iso-8601": "2019-07-30T15:38+0530",
"posix": 1564481331344
},
"creator": "admin",
"last-modifier": "admin",
"last-modify-time": {
"iso-8601": "2019-07-30T15:38+0530",
"posix": 1564481331344
},
"lock": "unlocked",
"validation-state": "ok"
},
"name": "PolicyPKG2",
"nat-policy": true,
"qos": false,
"qos-policy-type": "recommended",
"read-only": false,
"tags": [],
"threat-prevention": false,
"type": "package",
"uid": "d579c212-5486-4242-aa63-b510f6f3c93c",
"vpn-traditional-mode": false
},
"discovered_interpreter_python": "/usr/bin/python"
},
"ansible_loop_var": "item",
"changed": false,
"failed": false,
"invocation": {
"module_args": {
"name": "PolicyPKG2",
"uid": null
}
},
"item": "PolicyPKG2"
},
{
"ansible_facts": {
"checkpoint_access_layers": {
"access": true,
"access-layers": [
{
"domain": {
"domain-type": "global domain",
"name": "Global",
"uid": "1e294ce0-367a-11e3-aa6e-0800200c9a66"
},
"name": "Network",
"type": "access-layer",
"uid": "b94c472e-56df-42f7-9c28-2b0b3d470657"
},
{
"domain": {
"domain-type": "domain",
"name": "dom-cn-1",
"uid": "9597dde5-6c2e-4696-a4b9-0e9c5118947a"
},
"name": "security",
"type": "access-layer",
"uid": "82d38fdf-11a1-4d2d-bc11-380aa922af1a"
},
{
"domain": {
"domain-type": "domain",
"name": "dom-cn-1",
"uid": "9597dde5-6c2e-4696-a4b9-0e9c5118947a"
},
"name": "Network",
"type": "access-layer",
"uid": "809bb6ce-2dbb-4e28-8bec-a6365999cdb5"
}
],
"color": "black",
"comments": "",
"desktop-security": false,
"domain": {
"domain-type": "domain",
"name": "dom-cn-1",
"uid": "9597dde5-6c2e-4696-a4b9-0e9c5118947a"
},
"icon": "Blades/Access",
"installation-targets": "all",
"installation-targets-revision": [
{
"cluster-members-revision": [
{
"revision": {
"domain": {
"domain-type": "domain",
"name": "dom-cn-1",
"uid": "9597dde5-6c2e-4696-a4b9-0e9c5118947a"
},
"name": "admin#4/30/2019",
"type": "session",
"uid": "1240db79-9cfa-4a29-b7f9-2b82fd915f4d"
},
"target-name": "dev-cn-c1",
"target-uid": "84ed0d02-4a01-4079-90c2-b4a119e64cf2"
},
{
"revision": {
"domain": {
"domain-type": "domain",
"name": "dom-cn-1",
"uid": "9597dde5-6c2e-4696-a4b9-0e9c5118947a"
},
"name": "admin#4/30/2019",
"type": "session",
"uid": "1240db79-9cfa-4a29-b7f9-2b82fd915f4d"
},
"target-name": "dev-cn-c2",
"target-uid": "2639ab93-01ab-472c-a071-b24ad62eb49c"
}
],
"target-name": "Clus-01",
"target-uid": "7a5f9f5c-b533-4db6-b808-e8088ce6ab3c"
},
{
"cluster-members-revision": [
{
"revision": {
"domain": {
"domain-type": "domain",
"name": "dom-cn-1",
"uid": "9597dde5-6c2e-4696-a4b9-0e9c5118947a"
},
"name": "admin#4/30/2019",
"type": "session",
"uid": "58b232f3-7826-40a7-b7f0-0e35985e999a"
},
"target-name": "dev-cn-4",
"target-uid": "36289a7f-57ff-4320-bfe4-e7c640f3fdb1"
},
{
"revision": {
"domain": {
"domain-type": "domain",
"name": "dom-cn-1",
"uid": "9597dde5-6c2e-4696-a4b9-0e9c5118947a"
},
"name": "admin#4/30/2019",
"type": "session",
"uid": "58b232f3-7826-40a7-b7f0-0e35985e999a"
},
"target-name": "dev-cn-c3",
"target-uid": "443a3649-65fe-4a7e-bf48-66973f239bf6"
}
],
"target-name": "Clus-cn-02",
"target-uid": "5a395d40-0615-4cde-9a39-5c024fc0278d"
}
],
"meta-info": {
"creation-time": {
"iso-8601": "2019-04-26T16:31+0530",
"posix": 1556276469175
},
"creator": "System",
"last-modifier": "System",
"last-modify-time": {
"iso-8601": "2019-04-26T16:31+0530",
"posix": 1556276469175
},
"lock": "unlocked",
"validation-state": "ok"
},
"name": "Standard",
"nat-policy": true,
"qos": false,
"qos-policy-type": "recommended",
"read-only": false,
"tags": [],
"threat-layers": [
{
"domain": {
"domain-type": "domain",
"name": "dom-cn-1",
"uid": "9597dde5-6c2e-4696-a4b9-0e9c5118947a"
},
"name": "IPS",
"type": "threat-layer",
"uid": "5cab7f13-b376-4866-9b2d-1920ffc9a222"
},
{
"domain": {
"domain-type": "domain",
"name": "dom-cn-1",
"uid": "9597dde5-6c2e-4696-a4b9-0e9c5118947a"
},
"name": "Standard Threat Prevention",
"type": "threat-layer",
"uid": "bcaa152e-f1d6-4c9e-aeee-4a5046abb061"
}
],
"threat-prevention": true,
"type": "package",
"uid": "dc4d894f-8c77-41fc-bfd8-3a1a3c1335e2",
"vpn-traditional-mode": false
}
},
"ansible_loop_var": "item",
"changed": false,
"failed": false,
"invocation": {
"module_args": {
"name": "Standard",
"uid": null
}
},
"item": "Standard"
}
]
}
}

Answer 1

Try this:
- debug:
var: results | json_query(query)
vars:
query: results[?ansible_facts.checkpoint_access_layers."installation-targets-revision"[?"cluster-members-revision"[?"target-name"=='dev-cn-c2']]].item
The query has been split out into a separate variable because string escaping in json_query is hard, and the hyphens (-) in the keys (for example target-name) messes things up a little.