Does JMESPath have an 'in' like operator, that will be true if a key's value is present in an array of strings?

Does JMESPath have an 'in' like operator, that will be true if a key's value is present in an array of strings?

Given the following snippet of data, (assume the number of items is much larger, and I want to select a few)

[
  {
    "object": {
      "metadata": {
        "name": "item1"
      }
    },
    "data": {}
  },
  {
    "object": {
      "metadata": {
        "name": "item2"
      }
    },
    "data": {}
  },
  {
    "object": {
      "metadata": {
        "name": "item3"
      }
    },
    "data": {}
  }
]

Is there something that would allow me to select any object, whose metadata.name key's value is in the list ['item1', 'item2']?

Q: "Select any object, whose metadata.name key's value is in the list ['item1', 'item2']"

A: Use the JmesPath built-in function contains. The below query does what you want

[?contains(['item1', 'item2'], object.metadata.name)]

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• Example of a complete playbook for testing

- hosts: localhost

  vars:

    data:
      - data: {}
        object:
          metadata:
            name: item1
      - data: {}
        object:
          metadata:
            name: item2
      - data: {}
        object:
          metadata:
            name: item3

    result: "{{ data|json_query(result_query) }}"
    result_query: |
            [?contains(['item1', 'item2'], object.metadata.name)]

  tasks:

    - debug:
        var: result

gives (abridged)

  result:
  - data: {}
    object:
      metadata:
        name: item1
  - data: {}
    object:
      metadata:
        name: item2

• You can put the list into a variable. For example,

    result: "{{ data|json_query(result_query) }}"
    filter: ['item1', 'item2']
    result_query: |
            [?contains({{ filter }}, object.metadata.name)]

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