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Given the list below to simplify the example

The error message reports AnsibleUnsafeText object' has no attribute 'rules' ... The error appears to be in '/***/firewallrules.yml' but I cant find anything about .rules or firewallrules.yml in your description.

In respect to the minimal information

I would like to pass a particular value as an input to the URI from the JSON body. ... need a solution to get the netid from my input JSON ... which will be used in the API URI

it seems that your URI task and URL parameter are misconstructed. I've created a debugging task to get a better understanding of the use case.

You get an undefined error for your job id because:

1. You use poll: X on your initial task, so ansible connects every X seconds to check if the task is finished
2. When ansible exists that task and enters your next async_status task, the job is done. And since you used a non-zero value to poll the async status cache is automatically cleared.
3. since the cache was cleared, the job id does not exist anymore.

Your above scenario is meant to be used to avoid timeouts with your target on long running tasks, not to run tasks concurrently and have a later checkpoint on their status. For this second requirement, you need to run the async task with poll: 0 and clean-up the cache by yourself

See the documentation for more explanation on the above concepts:

• ansible async guide
• ansible async_status module

I made an example with your above task and fixed it to use the dedicated module apt (note that you could add a name option to the module with one or a list of packages and ansible would do both the cache update and install in a single step). Also, retries * delay on the async_status task should be equal or greater than async on the initial task if you want to make sure that you won't miss the end.

Using regex, checking the last character.

Just loop dict and compare:

source0.json:

set_fact works with loops, but not in a way you expect.

This example constructs list with loop from lists of dicts:

Ensure to add a bindep.txt file:

Rather than using a file lookup, it might be easiest just to make a group_vars file so that Ansible reads it for you automatically.

That is, if you create a file groups_vars/all.yml with this content:

I fixed my problem but it took me a few days and lots of debugging. For reasons which I will not discuss here (my tech-lead kind of forced me), I had to use this API. I recommend not using it at all outside Ansible development. It was a time consuming and bad experience in general.

This error is masking the real issue. If you see this exception it means something is broken somewhere else. It is usually inside task_executor.py. Check your code and make sure you have no typos and all arguments are provided. Python API seems to lack correct exception handling and hence the exception messages are somewhat confusing.

For me it was because I didn't provide context.CLIARGS with verbosity argument which is also missing from the brief example provided in the Ansible docs.