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I am trying to run an ansible "uri" task that fetches the status in an "until" loop till the status returned is either SUCCESS or FAILED. My task looks like this:
- name: Fetching recycle status
url: "http://{{ restarter }}/status?job_id={{ item }}"
method: GET
body_format: json
headers:
Accept: 'application/json'
return_content: yes
register: restart_status
with_items:
- 14502414
- 14552415
until: (restart_status.results|json_query('[*].json')| json_query('[*][*].status')|flatten) in ['SUCCESS', 'FAILED']
restart_status is a variable that contains the json payload that is returned and it looks like this:
"changed": false,
"results": [
"_ansible_ignore_errors": null,
"item": 14502414,
"json": [
"created_date": 1635348569000,
"job": {
"application_name": "testapp",
"id": 14552414,
"user": "gui"
"status": "FAILED"
"vary": "Accept-Encoding"
"_ansible_ignore_errors": null,
"item": 14552415,
"json": [
"created_date": 1635348569000,
"job": {
"application_name": "testapp",
"id": 14502415,
"user": "gui"
"status": "FAILED"
"vary": "Accept-Encoding"
The output of (restart_status.results|json_query('[].json')| json_query('[][*].status')|flatten) is
ok: [localhost] => {
"msg": [
"FAILED",
"FAILED"
I somehow cant seem to get the until clause to work.I have tried multiple things like "contain", "in" ,"not in", ==, but none of it is working. This is the error that is thrown.
TASK [Fetching recycle status] **************************************************************************************************
fatal: [localhost]: FAILED! => {"msg": "The conditional check '(restart_status.results|json_query('[*].json')| json_query('[*][*].status')|flatten) not in ['INIT', 'PROGRESS']' failed. The error was: Unexpected templating type error occurred on ({% if (restart_status.results|json_query('[*].json')| json_query('[*][*].status')|flatten) not in ['INIT', 'PROGRESS'] %} True {% else %} False {% endif %}): 'NoneType' object is not iterable"}
Any help or pointer to what I am doing wrong is greatly appreciated.
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Since the JSON response you receive contains a list in json[].status as shown in debug output, the multiple (dynamic) items of that list cannot be matched with in ['SUCCESS', 'FAILED'].
However matching the desired status would work, like 'SUCCESS' in ['SUCCESS', 'FAILED']. If we want to match multiple statuses, we can use and/or combination.
Something like:
- debug:
msg: Fetching recycle status
until: |
'SUCCESS' in restart_status.results | json_query('[].json[].status') or
'FAILED' in restart_status.results | json_query('[].json[].status')
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Do not test the cumulative results. Using until you have to test the registered variable in each iteration, e.g.
- hosts: localhost
tasks:
- command: echo FAILED
register: status
loop: [1,2,3]
until: status.stdout in ['FAILED', 'SUCCESS']
- debug:
msg: "{{ status.results|json_query('[].stdout') }}"
This trivial example will pass the iterations. Change the command to e.g. "echo XXX". You'll see the until condition in action.
In your case, the condition might be
until: restart_status.json.0.status in ['FAILED', 'SUCCESS']
, but I'm not sure why the attribute json is a list. Maybe it keeps the results from all attempts? Anyway, to be on the safe side, the condition below should work also with multiple items in the list
until: restart_status.json|
json_query('[].status')|unique|
intersect(['FAILED', 'SUCCESS'])|length > 0
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