community.dns.unquote_txt filter – Unquotes a TXT record entry to a string

Note

This filter plugin is part of the community.dns collection (version 3.0.3).

It is not included in ansible-core. To check whether it is installed, run ansible-galaxy collection list.

To install it, use: ansible-galaxy collection install community.dns.

To use it in a playbook, specify: community.dns.unquote_txt.

New in community.dns 2.9.0

Synopsis

  • Given a (quoted) TXT entry content, extracts its value.

Input

This describes the input of the filter, the value before | community.dns.unquote_txt.

Parameter

Comments

Input

string / required

The string to unquote.

Keyword parameters

This describes keyword parameters of the filter. These are the values key1=value1, key2=value2 and so on in the following example: input | community.dns.unquote_txt(key1=value1, key2=value2, ...)

Parameter

Comments

character_encoding

string

Whether to treat numeric escape sequences (\xyz) as octal or decimal numbers.

The default value decimal is compatible to RFC 1035.

Choices:

  • "decimal" ← (default)

  • "octal"

Examples

- name: Unquote a TXT entry
  ansible.builtin.set_fact:
    public_suffix: "{{ value | community.dns.unquote_txt }}"
    # Should result in 'this is a test'
  vars:
    value: >-
      "this is " "a test"

Return Value

Key

Description

Return value

string

The extracted string.

Returned: success

Authors

  • Felix Fontein (@felixfontein)

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.