As per the Jinja documentation:

Beside “filters, there are also so-called “tests” available. Tests can be used to test a variable against a common expression.

Filters such as selectattr() can accept tests as a parameter. As per the documentation:

“selectattr() filters a sequence of objects by applying a test to the specified attribute of each object, and only selecting the objects with the test succeeding. If no test is specified, the attribute’s value will be evaluated as a boolean.

We seen an example of this on the selectattr () page where the undefined Test is passed as a parameter:

- set_fact:
    emails: "{{ users | selectattr('password', 'undefined') | map(attribute='email') | list }}"

Jinja & Ansible Tests

While Jinja provides numerous tests, Ansible brings some of its own to the table too. You can find their documentation here:


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