Dry-Run with --check runs into Error

[mattagohni]

Hi,
I just stumbled over a problem with this role, when running it with --check. It seems like, in this case the request to launchpad is skipped, because this task does not support check-mode.

TASK [geerlingguy.php-versions : Debug launchpad_response] *************************************************************************************
ok: [91.98.164.146] => {
    "launchpad_response": {
        "changed": false,
        "msg": "This action (uri) does not support check mode.",
        "skipped": true
    }
}

the next step accesses this variable and tries to read a value out of the json property which does not exist in this case.

TASK [geerlingguy.php-versions : Parse JSON to extract signing key fingerprint] ****************************************************************
[ERROR]: Task failed: Finalization of task args for 'ansible.builtin.set_fact' failed: Error while resolving value for 'signing_key_fingerprint': object of type 'dict' has no attribute 'json'

Task failed.
Origin: /home/mattagohni/.ansible/roles/geerlingguy.php-versions/tasks/setup-Debian.yml:29:3

27
28
29 - name: Parse JSON to extract signing key fingerprint
     ^ column 3

<<< caused by >>>

Finalization of task args for 'ansible.builtin.set_fact' failed.
Origin: /home/mattagohni/.ansible/roles/geerlingguy.php-versions/tasks/setup-Debian.yml:30:3

28
29 - name: Parse JSON to extract signing key fingerprint
30   ansible.builtin.set_fact:
     ^ column 3

<<< caused by >>>

Error while resolving value for 'signing_key_fingerprint': object of type 'dict' has no attribute 'json'
Origin: /home/mattagohni/.ansible/roles/geerlingguy.php-versions/tasks/setup-Debian.yml:31:30

29 - name: Parse JSON to extract signing key fingerprint
30   ansible.builtin.set_fact:
31     signing_key_fingerprint: "{{ launchpad_response.json.signing_key_fingerprint }}"
                                ^ column 30

fatal: [91.98.164.146]: FAILED! => {"changed": false, "msg": "Task failed: Finalization of task args for 'ansible.builtin.set_fact' failed: Error while resolving value for 'signing_key_fingerprint': object of type 'dict' has no attribute 'json'"}

I'm not sure how this could be fixed, but I wanted to highlight this.

My Ansible Setup looks like this:

ansible [core 2.19.3]
  config file = /home/mattagohni/projects/mattagohni-de/ansible.cfg
  configured module search path = ['/home/mattagohni/.ansible/plugins/modules', '/usr/share/ansible/plugins/modules']
  ansible python module location = /usr/lib/python3.13/site-packages/ansible
  ansible collection location = /home/mattagohni/.ansible/collections:/usr/share/ansible/collections
  executable location = /usr/bin/ansible
  python version = 3.13.7 (main, Aug 15 2025, 12:34:02) [GCC 15.2.1 20250813] (/usr/bin/python)
  jinja version = 3.1.6
  pyyaml version = 6.0.3 (with libyaml v0.2.5)