Why is my jinja not processed

[PieterL75]

I want to use an external yaml source for certain fields in my AVD data.
ex:

snmp_server:
  location: "{{ device_details | selectattr('hostname', 'equalto', inventory_hostname_short) | map(attribute='snmp_location') | first | default('') }}"

but for some reason, this does not get parsed and ends up in the structured config as

snmp_server:
  location: '{{ device_details | selectattr(''hostname'', ''equalto'', inventory_hostname_short) | map(attribute=''snmp_location'')
    | first | default('''') }}'

and intented config as

snmp-server location {{ device_details | selectattr('hostname', 'equalto', inventory_hostname_short) | map(attribute='snmp_location') | first | default('') }}

I had the same with the node/mgmt_ip field.

Are some field not jinja enabled ??

Pieter

[gmuloc]

Hi Pieter,

From what I understand from your post, what you are trying to do should work.

The default behavior from ansible is to render the template if any variable is not present. (device_details, inventory_hostname_short, ...) can you share a bit more context?
You can try to replace with something smaller first maybe?

[PieterL75]

You're right..
It as all because of a wrong datastructure (dict-of-dict, in stead of list-of-dict), a wrong operator on the selectattr, and jinja2 just not telling me it was unable to parse it..

Got it all fixed. This can be closed as PEBCAK