From 5bb876b0e21bb7b9e5a2e07f7a4a007264bcd122 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Peter Sprygada <psprygada@ansible.com>
Date: Wed, 23 Mar 2016 02:32:18 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] fixes issue with getting value with . (dot) in key in netcfg

This commit addresses a problem when attempting to retrieve a value from
the result that includes a dict key using . (dot).
---
 lib/ansible/module_utils/netcfg.py | 22 ++++++++++++++--------
 1 file changed, 14 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)

diff --git a/lib/ansible/module_utils/netcfg.py b/lib/ansible/module_utils/netcfg.py
index 644a0a32dfa..5ccaf8d5bc3 100644
--- a/lib/ansible/module_utils/netcfg.py
+++ b/lib/ansible/module_utils/netcfg.py
@@ -85,9 +85,8 @@ def parse(lines, indent):
 
 
 class Conditional(object):
-    ''' 
-    Used in command modules to evaluate waitfor conditions
-    ''' 
+    """Used in command modules to evaluate waitfor conditions
+    """
 
     OPERATORS = {
         'eq': ['eq', '=='],
@@ -133,13 +132,20 @@ class Conditional(object):
         raise AttributeError('unknown operator: %s' % oper)
 
     def get_value(self, result):
-        for key in self.key.split('.'):
-            match = re.match(r'^(.+)\[(\d+)\]', key)
+        parts = re.split(r'\.(?=[^\]]*(?:\[|$))', self.key)
+        for part in parts:
+            match = re.findall(r'\[(\S+?)\]', part)
             if match:
-                key, index = match.groups()
-                result = result[key][int(index)]
+                key = part[:part.find('[')]
+                result = result[key]
+                for m in match:
+                    try:
+                        m = int(m)
+                    except ValueError:
+                        m = str(m)
+                    result = result[m]
             else:
-                result = result.get(key)
+                result = result.get(part)
         return result
 
     def number(self, value):