How to inspect a json response from Ansible URI call

Question

I have a service call that returns system status in json format. I want to use the ansible URI module to make the call and then inspect the response to decide whether the system is up or down

{"id":"20161024140306","version":"5.6.1","status":"UP"}

This would be the json that is returned

This is the ansible task that makes a call:

 - name: check sonar web is up
   uri:
    url: http://sonarhost:9000/sonar/api/system/status
    method: GET
    return_content: yes
    status_code: 200
    body_format: json
    register: data

Question is how can I access data and inspect it as per ansible documentation this is how we store results of a call. I am not sure of the final step which is to check the status.

Answer 1

This works for me.

- name: check sonar web is up
uri:
  url: http://sonarhost:9000/sonar/api/system/status
  method: GET
  return_content: yes
  status_code: 200
  body_format: json
register: result
until: result.json.status == "UP"
retries: 10
delay: 30

Notice that result is a ansible dictionary and when you set return_content=yes the response is added to this dictionary and is accessible using json key

Also ensure you have indented the task properly as shown above.