Maybe try these expressions:
{{ '{' ~ lookup('ansible.builtin.env', 'QUALYS_ACTIVATIONID') ~ '}' }}
{{ '{' ~ lookup('ansible.builtin.env', 'QUALYS_CUSTOMERID') ~ '}' }}
On 11/4/23 10:35 PM, matthew Higgs wrote:
Hey. I am having a bit of trouble trying to convert a jinja template
because of the some issues escaping curly braces. Consider this simple
jinja template that is currently returning an error:
activationID: {{{ lookup('ansible.builtin.env', 'QUALYS_ACTIVATIONID') }}}
CustomerID: {{{ lookup('ansible.builtin.env', 'QUALYS_CUSTOMERID') }}}
As you can see, there is an environment variable storing a string
value that I need, but the final string that my playbook needs is that
value surrounded by single curly brackets, eg:
{34-34-456-34}
I have tried various methods I found online to attempt to get ansible
to properly convert the jinja template, including:
Example 1:
activationID: \{{{ lookup('ansible.builtin.env',
'QUALYS_ACTIVATIONID') }}\}
CustomerID: \{{{ lookup('ansible.builtin.env', 'QUALYS_CUSTOMERID') }}\}
Example 2:
activationID: "{{{ lookup('ansible.builtin.env',
'QUALYS_ACTIVATIONID') }}}"
CustomerID: "{{{ lookup('ansible.builtin.env', 'QUALYS_CUSTOMERID') }}}"
Example 3:
activationID: "\{{{ lookup('ansible.builtin.env',
'QUALYS_ACTIVATIONID') }}\}"
CustomerID: "\{{{ lookup('ansible.builtin.env', 'QUALYS_CUSTOMERID') }}\}"
But no matter what I try, I keep getting this error:
The error was: . expected token ':', got '}
I did notice some interesting output from ansible regarding how the
template is being parsed as I ran the examples listed above. For
example, the output when I ran example 1:
String: activationID: \\{{{ lookup('ansible.builtin.env',
'QUALYS_ACTIVATIONID') }}\\}\nCustomerID: \\{{{
lookup('ansible.builtin.env', 'QUALYS_CUSTOMERID') }}\\}\n. expected
token ':', got '}'"
As you can see, "\" which I want to escape the outer most curly brace
is itself being automatically escaped by ansible. Same when I run
example 3:
"msg": "AnsibleError: template error while templating string: expected
token ':', got '}'. String: activationID: \"\\{{{
lookup('ansible.builtin.env', 'QUALYS_ACTIVATIONID')
}}\\}\"\nCustomerID: \"\\{{{ lookup('ansible.builtin.env',
'QUALYS_CUSTOMERID') }}\\}\"\n. expected token ':', got '}'"
I am at a loss as to what to do here. Any help would be awesome.
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