ansible JEMSPATH errors while parasing ansible facts

Question

i am trying to filter all the strings which contains "RegButton-" from the below ansible facts and use the output as list of items in the next play. trying to use json_query filter but it is failing with below error

ansible fact

{
    "ansible_facts": {
        "srcgrpname": [
            "RegButton-48773",
            "test_vio",
            "RegButton-23395",
            "RegButton-520859",
            "RegButton-743141",
            "RegButton-297578",
            "RegButton-186156"
        ]
    },
    "changed": false
}

playbook entry

  - name: "Filter Regbutton policy Names"
    set_fact:
      srcgrpname2: "{{ resultid1 | json_query(query) }}"
    vars:
        query: "ansible_facts.srcgrpname[?contains(@, 'RegButton-') == `true`]"

Error that i am receiving.

{
    "msg": "JMESPathError in json_query filter plugin:\nIn function contains(), invalid type for value: RegButton-48773, expected one of: ['array', 'string'], received: \"unknown\"",
    "_ansible_no_log": false
}

Vladimir Botka · Accepted Answer · 2019-10-01T07:01:52.453

It's possible to use select and regex. For example the tasks below

- set_fact:
    srcgrpname2: "{{ ansible_facts.srcgrpname|
                     select('regex', '^RegButton-(.*)$')|
                     list }}"
- debug:
    var: srcgrpname2

give

"srcgrpname2": [
    "RegButton-48773", 
    "RegButton-23395", 
    "RegButton-520859", 
    "RegButton-743141", 
    "RegButton-297578", 
    "RegButton-186156"
]

Notes

It's an open issue with contains.
- json_query filter fails when using the functions "contains", "starts_with", others #27299
- Allow for subclassed types #158
It's reproducible "RegButton-48773, expected one of: ['array', 'string'], received: unknown"
See json format query with contains

Super sir , it worked thanks for the support as always – mikeraj2019 Oct 01 '19 at 07:00 — mikeraj2019, Oct 01 '19 at 07:00

ansible JEMSPATH errors while parasing ansible facts

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