Ansible debug module print undesired details [duplicate] - amazon-s3

Question

I'm trying to get a debug message from the results of a previous loop, but I can't get just the bit that I want from it. Ansible keeps giving me the entire result instead just the line I'm asking for.
Here are the 2 modules I'm using:
- name: Make the curl call
uri:
url: https://www.theurl.com
method: GET
return_content: yes
headers:
XXXX: "xxxxxxxxxx"
loop: "{{ simplelist }}"
register: this
- name: just testing
debug:
msg: "I just want to see: {{ item.json.section.test }}"
loop: "{{ this.results}}"
As you can see from the msg, I'm just trying to output that specific value, but what Ansible gives me is:
{
"ansible_loop_var": "item",
"_ansible_no_log": false,
"item": {
"content_length": "",
"cookies": {},
"via": "1.1 varnish",
"connection": "",
"vary": "Accept-Encoding",
"x_timer": "",
"access_control_allow_methods": "OPTIONS, HEAD, GET, PATCH, DELETE",
"x_cache_hits": "0",
"failed": false,
"access_control_allow_credentials": "true",
"content": blah blah blah,
"json": { the json },
"changed": false,
"msg": "I just want to see: False",
So it is setting the message, as you can see from the last line, and it is getting the correct value, but it's not outputting that message. How can I get just the message to be output? I tested and I know that I can get the value because the msg has False and I tested with doing a fail/when with that value.

Answer 1

What you are seeing looks like a verbose output of ansible-playbook running with the -v[vv] option. You can drop that option to decrease verbosity.
Meanwhile, even in non-verbose mode, and whatever module your are using, when going over a loop, ansible outputs a label for each iteration, roughly looking like the following (watch for the (item=....) part of the screen).
TASK [test] *******************************************************************************
ok: [localhost] => (item={'a': 1, 'b': 2}) => {
"msg": "This is the value of a: 1"
}
ok: [localhost] => (item={'a': 3, 'b': 4}) => {
"msg": "This is the value of a: 3"
}
By default, the label is a the full item your are currently looping over. But you can change this label in the loop_control parameter which can be a little too verbose for complex data structures. If you really want an empty label your can use the following example. But you will still get ok: [server1] => (item=) => prepended to each iteration output.
- name: just testing
debug:
msg: "I just want to see: {{ item.json.section.test }}"
loop: "{{ this.results }}"
loop_control:
label: ""
For more info see limiting loop output with label