Vh (ddlmZmZmZeZdZdZdZy))absolute_importdivisionprint_functiona module: validate author: - Bradley Thornton (@cidrblock) - Ganesh Nalawade (@ganeshrn) short_description: Validate data with provided criteria description: - Validate data with provided criteria based on the validation engine. version_added: 1.0.0 options: data: type: raw description: - Data that will be validated against I(criteria). For the type of data refer to the documentation of individual validate plugins. required: True engine: type: str description: - The name of the validate plugin to use. The engine value should follow the fully qualified collection name format, that is ... default: ansible.utils.jsonschema criteria: type: raw description: - The criteria used for validation of I(data). For the type of criteria refer to the documentation of individual validate plugins. required: True notes: - For the type of options I(data) and I(criteria) refer to the individual validate plugin documentation that is represented in the value of I(engine) option. - For additional plugin configuration options refer to the individual validate plugin documentation that is represented by the value of I(engine) option. - The plugin configuration option can be either passed as task or environment variables. - The precedence of the validate plugin configurable option is task variables followed by the environment variables. ah - name: set facts for data and criteria ansible.builtin.set_fact: data: "{{ lookup('ansible.builtin.file', './validate/data/show_interfaces_iosxr.json') }}" criteria: "{{ lookup('ansible.builtin.file', './validate/criteria/jsonschema/show_interfaces_iosxr.json') }}" - name: validate data in with jsonschema engine (by passing task vars as configurable plugin options) ansible.utils.validate: data: "{{ data }}" criteria: "{{ criteria }}" engine: ansible.utils.jsonschema vars: ansible_jsonschema_draft: draft7 - name: validate configuration with config plugin (see config plugin for criteria examples) ansible.utils.validate: data: "{{ lookup('ansible.builtin.file', './backup/eos.config') }}" criteria: "{{ lookup('ansible.builtin.file', './validate/criteria/config/eos_config_rules.yaml') }}" engine: ansible.utils.config a msg: description: - The msg indicates if the I(data) is valid as per the I(criteria). - In case data is valid return success message B(all checks passed). - In case data is invalid return error message B(Validation errors were found) along with more information on error is available. returned: always type: str errors: description: The list of errors in I(data) based on the I(criteria). returned: when I(data) value is invalid type: list elements: str N) __future__rrrtype __metaclass__ DOCUMENTATIONEXAMPLESRETURNj/home/dcms/DCMS/lib/python3.12/site-packages/ansible_collections/ansible/utils/plugins/modules/validate.pyrs+A@ % N * r