You can use the following ansible playbook to extract information from a text file and transform it into JSON format:
---
- name: Extract information from text file and transform to JSON format
hosts: localhost
vars:
text_file: "path/to/text_file.txt"
json_file: "path/to/json_file.json"
tasks:
- name: Read text file
slurp:
src: "{{ text_file }}"
register: text_file_data
- name: Convert text file data to string
set_fact:
text_file_string: "{{ text_file_data['content'] | b64decode }}"
- name: Transform text to JSON
set_fact:
json_data: "{{ text_file_string | regex_replace('(\\r\\n)|(\\n\\r)|\\r|\\n', '') | from_json }}"
- name: Write JSON data to file
copy:
content: "{{ json_data | to_nice_json }}"
dest: "{{ json_file }}"
In this playbook, we first use the slurp
module to read the contents of the text file into a variable named text_file_data
. We then use the b64decode
filter to decode the contents of the file, since the slurp
module returns base64-encoded data.
We use the set_fact
module to store the decoded file contents as a string in a variable named text_file_string
. We then use the regex_replace
filter to remove any newline characters from the string, since they can cause issues when converting the string to JSON.
Finally, we use the from_json
filter to convert the string to JSON format and store it in a variable named json_data
. We use the to_nice_json
filter to format the JSON data in a human-readable way, and then write it to a file using the copy
module.
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Asked: 2022-05-21 11:00:00 +0000
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Last updated: Mar 23 '22
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