How to filter dictionaries in Jinja?

Question

I have a dictionary of packages with package-name being the key and a dictionary of some details being the value:

{
        "php7.1-readline": {
            "latest": "7.1.9-1+ubuntu14.04.1+deb.sury.org+1", 
            "origins": [
                "ppa.launchpad.net"
            ], 
            "version": "7.1.6-2~ubuntu14.04.1+deb.sury.org+1", 
            "www": "http://www.php.net/"
        }, 
        "php7.1-xml": {
            "latest": "7.1.9-1+ubuntu14.04.1+deb.sury.org+1", 
            "origins": [
                "ppa.launchpad.net"
            ], 
            "version": "7.1.6-2~ubuntu14.04.1+deb.sury.org+1", 
            "www": "http://www.php.net/"
        }, 
        "plymouth": {
            "version": "0.8.8-0ubuntu17.1"
        },
    ....
}

I'd like to reduce the above to a dictionary with only the packages, that have the latest-attribute in their values.

It would seem like json_query is the filter to use, but I can't figure out the syntax. The examples out there all seem to operate on lists of dictionaries, not dictionaries of same...

For example, if I "pipe" the above dictionary into json_query('*.latest'), I get the list of the actual latest versions:

[
  "7.1.9-1+ubuntu14.04.1+deb.sury.org+1",
  "7.1.9-1+ubuntu14.04.1+deb.sury.org+1",
  "7.1.6-2~ubuntu14.04.1+deb.sury.org+1"
]

How can I get the entire dictionary-elements instead?

Any hope?

Answer 1

You can't perform this translation (I think) exclusively with Jinja filters, but you can get there by applying a little Ansible logic as well. The following playbook uses a with_dict loop to loop over the items in your dictionary, and build a new dictionary from matching ones:

- hosts: localhost                                                              
  vars:                                                                         
    packages: {                                                                 
        "php7.1-readline": {                                                    
          "latest": "7.1.9-1+ubuntu14.04.1+deb.sury.org+1",                     
          "origins": [                                                          
            "ppa.launchpad.net"                                                 
          ],                                                                    
          "version": "7.1.6-2~ubuntu14.04.1+deb.sury.org+1",                    
          "www": "http://www.php.net/"                                          
        },                                                                      
        "php7.1-xml": {                                                         
          "latest": "7.1.9-1+ubuntu14.04.1+deb.sury.org+1",                     
          "origins": [                                                          
            "ppa.launchpad.net"                                                 
          ],                                                                    
          "version": "7.1.6-2~ubuntu14.04.1+deb.sury.org+1",                    
          "www": "http://www.php.net/"                                          
        },                                                                      
        "plymouth": {                                                           
          "version": "0.8.8-0ubuntu17.1"                                        
        }                                                                       
      }                                                                         

  tasks:                                                                        
    - set_fact:                                                                 
        new_packages: >                                                         
          {{ new_packages|default({})|                                          
                combine({item.key: item.value}) }}                              
      with_dict: "{{ packages }}"                                               
      when: "{{ item.value.latest is defined }}"                                

    - debug:                                                                    
        var: new_packages