[Bug]: nb_lookup vlans item.value.role.slug has no attribute slug (the same goes for item.value.role.name, etc)

[ane-ruiz]

Ansible NetBox Collection version

3.1.1

Ansible version

ansible 2.10.8
  config file = /etc/ansible/ansible.cfg
  configured module search path = ['/home/ane/.ansible/plugins/modules', '/usr/share/ansible/plugins/modules']
  ansible python module location = /usr/local/lib/python3.8/dist-packages/ansible
  executable location = /usr/local/bin/ansible
  python version = 3.8.10 (default, Jun  2 2021, 10:49:15) [GCC 9.4.0]

NetBox version

3.1.7

Python version

3.8

Steps to Reproduce

When I do a debug to show what I get when I do an nb_lookup query of the vlan, I can get the item.value.role.slug and item.value.role.name data, they return a string. When I save the variable like this it is correct.
But when I directly use item.value.role.name or item.value.role.slug in the "when" comparison part of the task to fulfil the condition of being a string or another, the result I get is "Has no attribute 'name' or Has no attribute 'slug'".

Expected Behavior

What I expect is to be able to compare what I get from item.value.role.name or item.value.role.slug with the desired string in the same task that I perform the nb_lookup of the vlans.

For example:

when: item.value.role.slug == "voip"
or
when: item.value.role.name == "VoIP"

Example of task:

    - name: Get voice vlan SIS
      set_fact:
        voice_vlan: '{{ item.value.vid }}' 
      loop: "{{ query('netbox.netbox.nb_lookup', 'vlans', api_endpoint=api_endpoint, api_filter=api_filter_site_vlans, validate_certs=False, token='XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX') }}"
      when: item.value.role.name == "VoIP" 
      ignore_errors: yes

Observed Behavior

When I run this task:

    - name: Get voice vlan SIS
      set_fact:
        voice_vlan: '{{ item.value.vid }}' 
      loop: "{{ query('netbox.netbox.nb_lookup', 'vlans', api_endpoint=api_endpoint, api_filter=api_filter_site_vlans, validate_certs=False, token='XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX') }}"
      when: item.value.role.slug == "voip" 
      ignore_errors: yes

I obtain:

"msg": "The conditional check 'item.value.role.name == \"VoIP\"' failed. The error was: error while evaluating conditional (item.value.role.name == \"VoIP\"): 'None' has no attribute 'name'

But when I run in this way:

    - name: Get voice vlan SIS
      set_fact:
        voice_vlan: '{{ item.value.role.slug }}'
      loop: "{{ query('netbox.netbox.nb_lookup', 'vlans', api_endpoint=api_endpoint, api_filter=api_filter_site_vlans, validate_certs=False, token='XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX') }}"
      when: item.value.vid == 924
      ignore_errors: yes

The result is correct:

ok: [device] => {
    "msg": "voip"
}

[rodvand]

I don't think this is related to the modules per se, as you can get the full data when saving the variable. It might be that the when clause doesn't like the nested dictionaries, but I'm not proficient enough with Ansible conditionals to say for certain.

[ane-ruiz]

Thanks for your answer. Finally, I solved it with a regex_search('...').