How can I load a list of items in an Ansible playbook task

Question

I have a file ansible/group_vars/test_dir/whitelist.yml which contains:

list:
[item1, item2, item3]

How can I have this list in a YAML style? like:

list:
- item1
- item2
- item3

Answer 1

As a solution. I managed to create a template:

my_list:
{% for item_of_interest in curl_command.result %}
- {{item_of_interest.attribute}}
{% endfor %}

the curl_command.result is actually a variable that I register in the task where I want to make use of this list... but for now, this did it for me.