community.general.dict filter – Convert a list of tuples into a dictionary

Note

This filter plugin is part of the community.general collection (version 9.5.1).

You might already have this collection installed if you are using the ansible package. It is not included in ansible-core. To check whether it is installed, run ansible-galaxy collection list.

To install it, use: ansible-galaxy collection install community.general.

To use it in a playbook, specify: community.general.dict.

New in community.general 3.0.0

Synopsis

  • Convert a list of tuples into a dictionary. This is a filter version of the dict function.

Input

This describes the input of the filter, the value before | community.general.dict.

Parameter

Comments

Input

list / elements=list / required

A list of tuples (with exactly two elements).

Examples

- name: Convert list of tuples into dictionary
  ansible.builtin.set_fact:
    dictionary: "{{ [[1, 2], ['a', 'b']] | community.general.dict }}"
    # Result is {1: 2, 'a': 'b'}

- name: Create a list of dictionaries with map and the community.general.dict filter
  ansible.builtin.debug:
    msg: >-
      {{ values | map('zip', ['k1', 'k2', 'k3'])
                | map('map', 'reverse')
                | map('community.general.dict') }}
  vars:
    values:
      - - foo
        - 23
        - a
      - - bar
        - 42
        - b
  # Produces the following list of dictionaries:
  #   {
  #     "k1": "foo",
  #     "k2": 23,
  #     "k3": "a"
  #   },
  #   {
  #     "k1": "bar",
  #     "k2": 42,
  #     "k3": "b"
  #   }

Return Value

Key

Description

Return value

boolean

The dictionary having the provided key-value pairs.

Returned: success

Authors

  • Felix Fontein (@felixfontein)

Hint

Configuration entries for each entry type have a low to high priority order. For example, a variable that is lower in the list will override a variable that is higher up.