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Conversions
-----------
Parsing CSV files
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Ansible offers the :ref:`community.general.read_csv module <ansible_collections.community.general.read_csv_module>` to read CSV files. Sometimes you need to convert strings to CSV files instead. For this, the ``from_csv`` filter exists.
.. code-block:: yaml+jinja
- name: "Parse CSV from string"
debug:
msg: "{{ csv_string | community.general.from_csv }}"
vars:
csv_string: |
foo,bar,baz
1,2,3
you,this,then
This produces:
.. code-block:: ansible-output
TASK [Parse CSV from string] **************************************************************
ok: [localhost] => {
"msg": [
{
"bar": "2",
"baz": "3",
"foo": "1"
},
{
"bar": "this",
"baz": "then",
"foo": "you"
}
]
}
The ``from_csv`` filter has several keyword arguments to control its behavior:
:dialect: Dialect of the CSV file. Default is ``excel``. Other possible choices are ``excel-tab`` and ``unix``. If one of ``delimiter``, ``skipinitialspace`` or ``strict`` is specified, ``dialect`` is ignored.
:fieldnames: A set of column names to use. If not provided, the first line of the CSV is assumed to contain the column names.
:delimiter: Sets the delimiter to use. Default depends on the dialect used.
:skipinitialspace: Set to ``true`` to ignore space directly after the delimiter. Default depends on the dialect used (usually ``false``).
:strict: Set to ``true`` to error out on invalid CSV input.
.. versionadded: 3.0.0
Converting to JSON
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
`JC <https://pypi.org/project/jc/>`_ is a CLI tool and Python library which allows to interpret output of various CLI programs as JSON. It is also available as a filter in community.general. This filter needs the `jc Python library <https://pypi.org/project/jc/>`_ installed on the controller.
.. code-block:: yaml+jinja
- name: Run 'ls' to list files in /
command: ls /
register: result
- name: Parse the ls output
debug:
msg: "{{ result.stdout | community.general.jc('ls') }}"
This produces:
.. code-block:: ansible-output
TASK [Run 'ls' to list files in /] ********************************************************
changed: [localhost]
TASK [Parse the ls output] ****************************************************************
ok: [localhost] => {
"msg": [
{
"filename": "bin"
},
{
"filename": "boot"
},
{
"filename": "dev"
},
{
"filename": "etc"
},
{
"filename": "home"
},
{
"filename": "lib"
},
{
"filename": "proc"
},
{
"filename": "root"
},
{
"filename": "run"
},
{
"filename": "tmp"
}
]
}
.. versionadded: 2.0.0