best way to modify json in ansible

Question

I have a variable (via set_fact) containing a json string:

{
  \"PolicyVersion\": {
    \"CreateDate\": \"2017-08-07T02:48:05Z\",
    \"Document\": {
      \         


        

Answer 1

Actually Ansible is natively able to read JSON files.

see this question:

add-a-new-key-value-to-a-json-file-using-ansible