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How to Provide Body Payload in Ansible's URI Module [Update]
Ansible is a popular automation platform that can be used for various use cases, such as web and API automation, cloud automation, infrastructure as code, and more. In this article, we will focus on how to use Ansible's URI module to interact with web services and provide body payload for different HTTP methods.
The URI module is a powerful tool that allows you to send requests to web services and receive responses. You can use it to perform tasks such as checking the status of a web page, downloading files, logging in to a form-based authentication site, or sending JSON data to an API endpoint.
One of the parameters that you can use with the URI module is body, which specifies the body of the HTTP request or response to the web service. Depending on the body_format parameter, you can provide the body payload in different formats, such as JSON, form-urlencoded, form-multipart, or raw.
JSON Payload
If you want to send JSON data to a web service, you need to set the body_format parameter to json. This will automatically set the Content-Type header to application/json. You can either provide a JSON-formatted string or a data structure that will be converted into JSON by Ansible.
For example, if you want to use the URI module to register a user using a public API service (https://reqres.in/api/users), you can use the following task:
```yaml
- name: Ansible URI used for user registration
uri:
url: https://reqres.in/api/users
method: POST
body:
name: Sarav
job: leader
body_format: json
return_content: yes
status_code: 201
```
This task will send a POST request with the JSON payload {\"name\": \"Sarav\", \"job\": \"leader\"} to the URL https://reqres.in/api/users. It will also expect a 201 status code and return the content of the response. You can access the response content using the content attribute of the registered variable.
Form-urlencoded Payload
If you want to send data in the form of key-value pairs, you need to set the body_format parameter to form-urlencoded. This will automatically set the Content-Type header to application/x-www-form-urlencoded. You can either provide a dictionary or a list of tuples that will be converted into a form-urlencoded string by Ansible.
For example, if you want to use the URI module to log in to a form-based authentication site (https://httpbin.org/forms/post), you can use the following task:
```yaml
- name: Ansible URI used for form-based authentication
uri:
url: https://httpbin.org/forms/post
method: POST
body:
custname: Alice
custtel: 1234567890
custemail: alice@example.com
size: medium
topping: bacon
delivery: 12:00
comments: Enjoy your pizza!
body_format: form-urlencoded
return_content: yes
status_code: 200
```
This task will send a POST request with the form-urlencoded payload custname=Alice&custtel=1234567890&custemail=alice%40example.com&size=medium&topping=bacon&delivery=12%3A00&comments=Enjoy+your+pizza%21 to the URL https://httpbin.org/forms/post. It will also expect a 200 status code and return the content of the response.
Form-multipart Payload
If you want to send data in multiple parts, such as files or binary data, you need to set the body_format parameter to form-multipart. This will automatically set the Content-Type header to multipart/form-data. You can provide a dictionary that will be converted into a form ec8f644aee