Loop Over Objects in Bicep

[ranadeb-pramanick]

Is there an ability to loop over objects in bicep?

Scenario

I normally use the loadTextContent() to load an external json file like below and then use it to loop .

param storageAccountjsonData object = json(loadTextContent('./input.json'))
param stgAccountInfo array = storageAccountjsonData.stgAccountInfo

input.json is as below

{
    "stgAccountInfo": [
        {
            "name": "teststorgae123",
            "sku": "Standard_LRS"
        },
        {
            "name": "teststorgae12345",
            "sku": "Standard_GRS"
        }
    ]
}

And then i use it loop over a module that create a bunch of storage accounts like below

module stgModule 'storage-account.bicep' = [for item in stgAccountInfo : {
  scope: rg
  name: '${item.name}stgDeployment'
  params: {
    stgAccountName: item.name 
    stgSKU: item.sku
  }
}]

Currently as of now the data structure in the input.json is a list, where as if i change it to a map something like below, the looping construct does not work.

 "stgAccountInfo": {
        "teststorgae123": {
            "sku": "Standard_LRS"
        },
        "teststorgae456": {
            "sku": "Standard_LRS"
        }
    }

If looping over objects was allowed i could easily reference outputs by its name rather than index in some other resource, something that terraform allows ( for_each allows to loop over maps).

[brwilkinson]

There is a discussion over here about the best way to handle filtering output via a Key.

#2165

I don't believe we have a good resolution as yet.

However please feel free to contribute to that discussion if you have any ideas Etc.

[brwilkinson]

I will see if I can follow up about the iteration over the map.

[ranadeb-pramanick]

Thank you @brwilkinson

[StefanIvemo]

This has also been asked for in #4022.

[brwilkinson]

Update #4022 was marked as duplicate, now references #1427

Will mark this as answered based on it being tracked in that issue.