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Apparently there just isn't an equivalent of additionalProperties in Ansible. The way around this is to break the dictionary argument into a list of key/value pairs: argument_specs: main: ...
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#2: Post edited
by
Iizuki
·
2023-10-11T13:42:43Z (about 1 year ago)
Grammar
- Apparently there just isn't an equivalent of `additionalProperties` in Ansible.
- The way around this is to break the dictionary argument into a list of key/value pairs:
- ```yaml
- argument_specs:
- main:
- options:
- dictionary_argument:
- description: A map from string to integers.
- type: list
- required: true
- elements: dict
- options:
- key:
- type: str
- required: true
- value:
- type: int
- required: true
- ```
Just keep in mind that by doing this you loose some of dictionaries' implicit restriction of unique keys. If this is important, you will have to verify this manually in a task:- ```yaml
- - name: Argument validation
- vars:
- original_length: "{{ dictionary_argument | length }}"
- unique_length: "{{ dictionary_argument | unique(attribute='key') | length }}"
- ansible.builtin.assert:
- that:
- - original_length == unique_length
- ```
- Apparently there just isn't an equivalent of `additionalProperties` in Ansible.
- The way around this is to break the dictionary argument into a list of key/value pairs:
- ```yaml
- argument_specs:
- main:
- options:
- dictionary_argument:
- description: A map from string to integers.
- type: list
- required: true
- elements: dict
- options:
- key:
- type: str
- required: true
- value:
- type: int
- required: true
- ```
- Just keep in mind that by doing this you loose dictionaries' implicit restriction of unique keys. If this is important, you will have to verify this manually in a task:
- ```yaml
- - name: Argument validation
- vars:
- original_length: "{{ dictionary_argument | length }}"
- unique_length: "{{ dictionary_argument | unique(attribute='key') | length }}"
- ansible.builtin.assert:
- that:
- - original_length == unique_length
- ```
#1: Initial revision
by
Iizuki
·
2023-10-11T13:27:55Z (about 1 year ago)
Apparently there just isn't an equivalent of `additionalProperties` in Ansible.
The way around this is to break the dictionary argument into a list of key/value pairs:
```yaml
argument_specs:
main:
options:
dictionary_argument:
description: A map from string to integers.
type: list
required: true
elements: dict
options:
key:
type: str
required: true
value:
type: int
required: true
```
Just keep in mind that by doing this you loose some of dictionaries' implicit restriction of unique keys. If this is important, you will have to verify this manually in a task:
```yaml
- name: Argument validation
vars:
original_length: "{{ dictionary_argument | length }}"
unique_length: "{{ dictionary_argument | unique(attribute='key') | length }}"
ansible.builtin.assert:
that:
- original_length == unique_length
```