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community.general/plugins/filter/groupby_as_dict.py
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Move licenses to LICENSES/, run add-license.py, add LICENSES/MIT.txt (#5065)
* Move licenses to LICENSES/, run add-license.py, add LICENSES/MIT.txt.

* Replace 'Copyright:' with 'Copyright'

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Co-authored-by: Maxwell G <gotmax@e.email>
2022-08-05 12:28:29 +02:00

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# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
# Copyright (c) 2021, Felix Fontein <felix@fontein.de>
# GNU General Public License v3.0+ (see LICENSES/GPL-3.0-or-later.txt or https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-3.0.txt)
# SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-3.0-or-later
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,
}