How to assign ansible variable output to another variable from nested list

Question

I need help to perform join operation of Ansible task output. I have output as below:

{
    "ansible_facts": {
        "server_and_its_status": [
            {
                "name": "server1",
                "session": "enabled"
            },
            {
                "name": "server2",
                "session": "enabled"
            }
        ]
    },
    "changed": false
}

I want the output to be formatted as:

{ 
"server1": "enabled"
"server2": "enabled"
}

I have tried many ways to get the output from my task as below but no luck:

- name: Get the server details
  set_fact:
    server_and_its_status: "{{ jsondata1 | json_query('data.member[].nodes[].{name: name, session: sessionStatus}') | join(':','name','session') }}"

How can I achieve this?

Answer 1

Use filter items2dict, e.g.

  - set_fact:
      srv_stat: "{{ server_and_its_status|
                    items2dict(key_name='name', value_name='session') }}"

gives

  srv_stat:
    server1: enabled
    server2: enabled