# -*- coding: utf-8 -*- # Copyright (c) 2021, Felix Fontein # GNU General Public License v3.0+ (see COPYING or https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-3.0.txt) from __future__ import (absolute_import, division, print_function) __metaclass__ = type DOCUMENTATION = ''' name: groupby_as_dict short_description: Transform a sequence of dictionaries to a dictionary where the dictionaries are indexed by an attribute version_added: 3.1.0 author: Felix Fontein (@felixfontein) description: - Transform a sequence of dictionaries to a dictionary where the dictionaries are indexed by an attribute. positional: attribute options: _input: description: A list of dictionaries type: list elements: dictionary required: true attribute: description: The attribute to use as the key. type: str required: true ''' EXAMPLES = ''' - name: Arrange a list of dictionaries as a dictionary of dictionaries ansible.builtin.debug: msg: "{{ sequence | community.general.groupby_as_dict('key') }}" vars: sequence: - key: value foo: bar - key: other_value baz: bar # Produces the following nested structure: # # value: # key: value # foo: bar # other_value: # key: other_value # baz: bar ''' RETURN = ''' _value: description: A dictionary containing the dictionaries from the list as values. type: dictionary ''' from ansible.errors import AnsibleFilterError from ansible.module_utils.common._collections_compat import Mapping, Sequence def groupby_as_dict(sequence, attribute): ''' Given a sequence of dictionaries and an attribute name, returns a dictionary mapping the value of this attribute to the dictionary. If multiple dictionaries in the sequence have the same value for this attribute, the filter will fail. ''' if not isinstance(sequence, Sequence): raise AnsibleFilterError('Input is not a sequence') result = dict() for list_index, element in enumerate(sequence): if not isinstance(element, Mapping): raise AnsibleFilterError('Sequence element #{0} is not a mapping'.format(list_index)) if attribute not in element: raise AnsibleFilterError('Attribute not contained in element #{0} of sequence'.format(list_index)) result_index = element[attribute] if result_index in result: raise AnsibleFilterError('Multiple sequence entries have attribute value {0!r}'.format(result_index)) result[result_index] = element return result class FilterModule(object): ''' Ansible list filters ''' def filters(self): return { 'groupby_as_dict': groupby_as_dict, }