How to select nested values?

February 24, 2022

The following is the output (return values) of an Ansible module (Oracle Cloud Networking Module). I want to get nested values. I tried with:

var=result_pub_ips_reserved.public_ips.assigned_entity_id

but this does not work. Am I missing something?

Code:

ok: [localhost] => {
    "result_pub_ips_reserved": {
        "changed": false,
        "failed": false,
        "public_ips": [
            {
                "assigned_entity_id": "ocid1.privateip.oc1.eu-frankfurt-1.abtheljtfhzqfze7tvfgbesdkytmf6xaiegwjfjcpw73gamozymt6jh2xrya",
                "assigned_entity_type": "PRIVATE_IP",
                "availability_domain": null,
                "compartment_id": "ocid1.compartment.oc1..aaaaaaaadnurmgbsrwgao42kohyg6t7qil35c2hkjrhicchnltra45fwavma",
                "defined_tags": {},
                "display_name": "anakin-pub-ip",
                "freeform_tags": {},
                "id": "ocid1.publicip.oc1.eu-frankfurt-1.amaaaaaafzy3a4ya2af5l26fnrjvq2tr4mmipqdqoei5o7o72ir5h5olds4a",
                "ip_address": "144.24.171.161",
                "lifecycle_state": "ASSIGNED",
                "lifetime": "RESERVED",
                "private_ip_id": "ocid1.privateip.oc1.eu-frankfurt-1.abtheljtfhzqfze7tvfgbesdkytmf6xaiegwjfjcpw73gamozymt6jh2xrya",
                "public_ip_pool_id": null,
                "scope": "REGION",
                "time_created": "2022-02-22T12:34:35.878000+00:00"
            }
        ]
    }
}

>Solution :

"public_ips" is an array with a single element: a hash. You need to access the first element of that array, result_pub_ips_reserved.public_ips.0.assigned_entity_id, or remove the [...] around {...}