I'd like to remove a single key from a dictionary in Ansible.
For example, I'd like this:
- debug: var=dict2
vars:
dict:
a: 1
b: 2
c: 3
dict2: "{{ dict | filter_to_remove_key('a') }}"
To print this:
ok: [localhost] => {
"dict2": {
"b": 2,
"c": 3
}
}
Please note that the dictionary is loaded from a json file and I POST it to the Grafana REST API. I'd like to allow saving an 'id' key in the file and remove the key before POSTing it.
This is closer to the actual use I have for the removal:
- name: Install Dashboards
uri:
url: "{{ grafana_api_url }}/dashboards/db"
method: POST
headers:
Authorization: Bearer {{ grafana_api_token }}
body:
overwrite: true
dashboard:
"{{ lookup('file', item) | from_json | removekey('id') }}"
body_format: json with_fileglob:
- "dashboards/*.json"
- "../../../dashboards/*.json"
- set_fact:
dict:
a: 1
b: 2
c: 3
dict2: {}
- set_fact:
dict2: "{{dict2 |combine({item.key: item.value})}}"
when: "{{item.key not in ['a']}}"
with_dict: "{{dict}}"
- debug: var=dict2
or create a filter plugin and use it.
Thanks for showing the way. I created a filter plugin, but it's cleaner to make do with native ansible if possible.
Very nice! You don't even have to declare dict2, you can use {} directly.