Ansible list workaround support

[hanynowsky]

Ansible list workaround support

[bryanlarsen]

I get some sort of strange unicode issues with this.

Using

- ghetto_json:
    path: /tmp/foo.json
    bar:
      - 'bat'

I get result

  "bar": [
    "u'bat'"
  ],

Python 2.7.12, ansible 2.4.1.0

To make things work, I replaced the meat of your if clause with target=eval(target). That'll be much more robust in the face of values containing [, ], or ", but it's eval. :)

[hanynowsky]

It s working fine for me.
did you notice the (jinja filter : to_json):

ghetto_json: path=/etc/sensu/config.json client.keepalive.handlers='{{managed_keepalive_handlers|to_json}}'

• python 2.7, Ansible 2.3

---
managed_keepalive_handlers:
  - halive
  - pagerduty

[bryanlarsen]

No, I missed that. to_json isn't as easy to use inline as it is with variables. But given that you're requiring json, how about using json.loads instead of the string.replace hacks? Similar idea to my eval, just not dangerous. :)

[hanynowsky]

Yeah. Pretty much simpler and efficient. Please go ahead and commit the changes.

[dagwieers]

Please see #6 (comment) for a solution to support multiple use-cases in a single call.