Iterating through nested dictionaries in Ansibles group_vars

Question

I'm trying to iteratively loop through a group_var that we have inside of our ansible environment and pull the salary value and use it inside of the command module. I have the following file inside of my ansible/groups_vars file -

people:
  george:
    lastname: smith
    job:
      title: associate
      salary: 60    

  chris:
    lastname: george
    job:
      title: senior
      salary: 70

  greg:
    lastname: anderson
    job:
      title: director
      salary: 95

This is the code I currently have:

- name: Run module check command against every docroot
  command: 'drush  --root=/var/www/html/wwwroot/{{item.0.salary}}/docroot en update'
  with_subelements:
   - "{{ people }}"
   -  job.salary

The error that I am seeing is:

FAILED! => {"msg": "the key salary should point to a list, got '60'"}

I put together this solution by looking at the following questions on here:

Ansible with_subelements
Ansible loop using multi-ter group_vars
Ansible with subelements referencing a dict

Trying to set the value to .0 or .1 seems to make it look for a dictionary, and setting it to [0] or [1] says:

{"msg": "could not find 'salary[1]' key in iterated item '{u'title': associate, u'salary': u'60'}"}

I feel like I'm really close to getting this working, but there's just a small piece that I am missing. How can I get it to iteratively loop through and pull that specific piece of information?

Answer 1

There are no nested dictionaries nor lists to loop over in the example you posted. You want to iterate over a single dictionary and refer to its values.

Here is an answer to your question:

- name: Run module check command against every docroot
  command: 'drush  --root=/var/www/html/wwwroot/{{item.value.job.salary}}/docroot en update'
  with_dict:
    - "{{ people }}"