Unable to access JSON property with “-” dash

Question

I am unable to retrieve a value from a json object when the string has a dash character:

{
\"profile-id\":1234, \"user_id\":6789
}

If I try

Answer 1

In addition to this answer, note that in Node.js if you access JSON with the array syntax [] all nested JSON keys should follow that syntax

This is the wrong way

json.first.second.third['comment']

and will will give you the 'undefined' error.

This is the correct way

json['first']['second']['third']['comment'] 

Answer 2

jsonObj.profile-id is a subtraction expression (i.e. jsonObj.profile - id).

To access a key that contains characters that cannot appear in an identifier, use brackets:

jsonObj["profile-id"]

Answer 3

For ansible, and using hyphen, this worked for me:

    - name: free-ud-ssd-space-in-percent
      debug:
        var: clusterInfo.json.content["free-ud-ssd-space-in-percent"]