ansible.utils.validate_filter.rst

ansible.utils.validate

Validate data with provided criteria

Version added: 1.0.0

• Synopsis
• Parameters
• Notes
• Examples
• Return Values
• Status

Synopsis

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

Parameters

Parameter	Choices/Defaults	Configuration	Comments
criteria raw / required			The criteria used for validation of value that represents data options. This option represents the first argument passed in the filter plugin. For example config_data|ansible.utils.validate(config_criteria), in this case the value of config_criteria represents this option. For the type of criteria that represents this value refer to the documentation of individual validator plugins.
data raw / required			Data that will be validated against criteria. This option represents the value that is passed to the filter plugin in pipe format. For example config_data|ansible.utils.validate(), in this case config_data represents this option. For the type of data that represents this value refer to the documentation of individual validator plugins.
engine string	Default: "ansible.utils.jsonschema"		The name of the validator plugin to use. This option can be passed in lookup plugin as a key, value pair. For example config_data|ansible.utils.validate(config_criteria, engine='ansible.utils.jsonschema'), in this case the value ansible.utils.jsonschema represents the engine to be use for data validation. If the value is not provided the default value that is ansible.utils.jsonschema will be used. The value should be in fully qualified collection name format that is <org-name>.<collection-name>.<validator-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 key=value pairs within filter plugin or environment variables.
• The precedence of the validate plugin configurable option is the variable passed within filter plugin as key=value pairs 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 json format using jsonschema by passing plugin configuration variable as key/value pairs
  ansible.builtin.set_fact:
    data_validity: "{{ data|ansible.utils.validate(criteria, engine='ansible.utils.jsonschema', draft='draft7') }}"

Return Values

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

Key	Returned	Description
_raw -		If data is valid returns empty list If data is invalid returns list of errors in data

Status

Authors

• Ganesh Nalawade (@ganeshrn)

Hint

Configuration entries for each entry type have a low to high priority order. For example, a variable that is lower in the list will override a variable that is higher up.