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I was trying to loop over dictionaries and I referred the following thread but it kept on failing:

How to loop over this dictionary in Ansible?

Following is my play book:

- hosts: server_hosts
 tasks:
 - name: Include dictionary data
 include_vars:
 file: vars/input_vars.yaml
 - name: Show info field from data.yml
 debug:
 msg: "Id: input_data[item]['version'] - info: input_data[item]['name'] "
 with_items: " input_data.keys() "

Following is my dictionary vars/input_vars.yaml file:

input_data:

 item_1:

 name: "test1"

 version: "18.3"

 item_2:

 name: "test2"

 version: "18.3"
 item_3:

 name: "test3"

 version: "18.3"

When I executed the playbook, it fails with following error:

fatal: [192.168.16.120]: FAILED! => 
 "ansible_facts": ,
 "ansible_included_var_files": [],
 "changed": false,
 "message": "Syntax Error while loading YAML.n mapping values are not allowed herennThe error appears to have been in '/git_projects/base/vars/input_vars.yaml': line 2, column 12, but maynbe elsewhere in the file depending on the exact syntax problem.nnThe offending line appears to be:nn----n input_data:n ^ heren"

I have tested it and it works, I have removed extra newlines from input_vars.yaml

➜ ~ cat input_vars.yaml 
input_data:
 item_1:
 name: "test1"
 version: "18.3"
 item_2:
 name: "test2"
 version: "18.3"
 item_3:
 name: "test3"
 version: "18.3"

➜ ~ cat example.yml 
---
- hosts: localhost
 tasks:
 - name: Include dictionary data
 include_vars:
 file: input_vars.yaml
 - name: Show info field from data.yml
 debug:
 msg: "Id: input_data[item]['version'] - info: input_data[item]['name'] "
 with_items: " input_data.keys() "

Output

➜ ~ ansible-playbook example.yml 
 [WARNING]: Unable to parse /etc/ansible/hosts as an inventory source 

 [WARNING]: No inventory was parsed, only implicit localhost is available 

 [WARNING]: provided hosts list is empty, only localhost is available. Note that the implicit localhost does not match 'all' 


PLAY [localhost] ***********************************************************************************************************************

TASK [Gathering Facts] *****************************************************************************************************************
ok: [localhost] 

TASK [Include dictionary data] *********************************************************************************************************
ok: [localhost] 

TASK [Show info field from data.yml] ***************************************************************************************************
ok: [localhost] => (item=item_2) => 
 "msg": "Id: 18.3 - info: test2"

ok: [localhost] => (item=item_3) => 
 "msg": "Id: 18.3 - info: test3"

ok: [localhost] => (item=item_1) => 
 "msg": "Id: 18.3 - info: test1"


PLAY RECAP *****************************************************************************************************************************
localhost : ok=3 changed=0 unreachable=0 failed=0