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ansible.utils.validate – Validate data with provided criteria

Note

This plugin is part of the ansible.utils collection (version 2.0.0).

To install it use: ansible-galaxy collection install ansible.utils.

To use it in a playbook, specify: ansible.utils.validate.

New in version 1.0.0: of ansible.utils

Synopsis

  • Validate data with provided criteria based on the validation engine.

Note

This module has a corresponding action plugin.

Parameters

Parameter Choices/Defaults Comments
criteria
raw / required
The criteria used for validation of data. For the type of criteria refer to the documentation of individual validate plugins.
data
raw / required
Data that will be validated against criteria. For the type of data refer to the documentation of individual validate plugins.
engine
string
Default:
"ansible.utils.jsonschema"
The name of the validate plugin to use. The engine value should follow the fully qualified collection name format, that is <org-name>.<collection-name>.<validate-plugin-name>.

Notes

Note

  • For the type of options data and criteria refer to the individual validate plugin documentation that is represented in the value of engine option.
  • For additional plugin configuration options refer to the individual validate plugin documentation that is represented by the value of engine option.
  • The plugin configuration option can be either passed as task or environment variables.
  • The precedence of the validate plugin configurable option is task variables followed by the environment variables.

Examples

- name: set facts for data and criteria
  ansible.builtin.set_fact:
    data: "{{ lookup('ansible.builtin.file', './validate/data/show_interfaces_iosxr.json')}}"
    criteria: "{{ lookup('ansible.builtin.file', './validate/criteria/jsonschema/show_interfaces_iosxr.json')}}"

- name: validate data in with jsonschema engine (by passing task vars as configurable plugin options)
  ansible.utils.validate:
    data: "{{ data }}"
    criteria: "{{ criteria }}"
    engine: ansible.utils.jsonschema
  vars:
    ansible_jsonschema_draft: draft7

Return Values

Common return values are documented here, the following are the fields unique to this module:

Key Returned Description
errors
list / elements=string
when data value is invalid
The list of errors in data based on the criteria.
msg
string
always
The msg indicates if the data is valid as per the criteria.
In case data is valid return success message all checks passed.
In case data is invalid return error message Validation errors were found along with more information on error is available.


Authors

  • Bradley Thornton (@cidrblock)
  • Ganesh Nalawade (@ganeshrn)

© 2012–2018 Michael DeHaan
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Licensed under the GNU General Public License version 3.
https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/2.11/collections/ansible/utils/validate_module.html