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community.general/plugins/filter/groupby.py
Felix Fontein 384655e15c
Add groupby_as_dict filter (#2323)
* Add groupby_as_dict filter.

* Test all error cases.
2021-05-13 21:49:57 +02:00

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# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
# Copyright (c) 2021, Felix Fontein <felix@fontein.de>
# 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
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,
}