Im trying to figure out how to use 1Password CLI to create items from Ansible.
\nEverything I tried is giving me an error: \"Failed to create item: invalid JSON\"

Here is my test task:


\n- name: Run command
\n ansible.builtin.command: \"op item create --category login --title 'Test'\"
\n delegate_to: localhost
\n
\nEven running an empty command \"op item create\" gives the same error about invalid JSON even though I would expect it to fail with something related to a missing category.

I also tried to create a json template and use it, but in that case task finishes fine, but no actual login is created:
\n
\n- name: Run command
\n ansible.builtin.command: \"echo {{ lookup('file', 'login.tpl') }} | op item create\"
\n delegate_to: localhost
\n

Executing command locally works just fine

CLI version: 2.16.1

What am I doing wrong?

1Password Version: 8.10.4
\nExtension Version: Not Provided
\nOS Version: MacOS 13.3.1
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Im trying to figure out how to use 1Password CLI to create items from Ansible.
\nEverything I tried is giving me an error: \"Failed to create item: invalid JSON\"

Here is my test task:


\n- name: Run command
\n ansible.builtin.command: \"op item create --category login --title 'Test'\"
\n delegate_to: localhost
\n
\nEven running an empty command \"op item create\" gives the same error about invalid JSON even though I would expect it to fail with something related to a missing category.

I also tried to create a json template and use it, but in that case task finishes fine, but no actual login is created:
\n
\n- name: Run command
\n ansible.builtin.command: \"echo {{ lookup('file', 'login.tpl') }} | op item create\"
\n delegate_to: localhost
\n

Executing command locally works just fine

CLI version: 2.16.1

What am I doing wrong?

1Password Version: 8.10.4
\nExtension Version: Not Provided
\nOS Version: MacOS 13.3.1
\nBrowser:_ Not Provided

Hey everyone,

My apologies for the late response. This seems to be a bug of op item create present in piped environments, the workaround is indeed to use --template or to pipe a part of the item (or a full template) into the command:
\n
\nop item template get login | op item create
\n

I hope this helps, as a workaround. This is something we're currently looking into fixing, so thank you for raising this!

Best,
\nHoria

@babaika one of my colleagues at work found a solution to this that worked for us. This is what I did in my playbook that worked:

ansible
\nansible.builtin.shell:
\ncmd: |
\n echo '{ \"title\": \"YOUR TITLE\", \"fields\": [ { \"id\": \"notesPlain\", \"value\": \"Hey these are some notes\" } ] }' | op item create --vault Private --category \"Password\" \"password={{ super_secret_password }}\" --tags=foo --format=JSON
\n

You can get all the fields for the echo json by downloading the template:
\nshell
\nop item template get --out-file=password.json \"Password\"
\n

I am having this exact same issue. Using 1password-cli 2.17.0.
\nSomething to add is that the op get command works fine:
\n\"cmd\": [\"op\", \"item\", \"get\", \"FOO\", \"--vault\", \"Private\", \"--fields\", \"notesPlain\"]
\nbut the simple create does not:
\n \"cmd\": [\"op\", \"item\", \"create\"]
\n\"stderr\": \"[ERROR] 2023/05/03 14:08:17 Failed to create item: invalid JSON\"

Here is a raw error msg (from the first command) in case its helpful:


\nfatal: [ans-test3 -> localhost]: FAILED! => {
\n \"changed\": true,
\n \"cmd\": [
\n \"op\",
\n \"item\",
\n \"create\",
\n \"--category\",
\n \"login\",
\n \"--title\",
\n \"Test\"
\n ],
\n \"delta\": \"0:00:01.144492\",
\n \"end\": \"2023-04-28 12:21:14.001860\",
\n \"invocation\": {
\n \"module_args\": {
\n \"_raw_params\": \"op item create --category login --title 'Test'\",
\n \"_uses_shell\": false,
\n \"argv\": null,
\n \"chdir\": null,
\n \"creates\": null,
\n \"executable\": null,
\n \"removes\": null,
\n \"stdin\": null,
\n \"stdin_add_newline\": true,
\n \"strip_empty_ends\": true
\n }
\n },
\n \"msg\": \"non-zero return code\",
\n \"rc\": 1,
\n \"start\": \"2023-04-28 12:21:12.857368\",
\n \"stderr\": \"[ERROR] 2023/04/28 12:21:13 Failed to create item: invalid JSON\",
\n \"stderr_lines\": [
\n \"[ERROR] 2023/04/28 12:21:13 Failed to create item: invalid JSON\"
\n ],
\n \"stdout\": \"\",
\n \"stdout_lines\": []
\n}
\n