zabbix_template_info and zabbix_template modules fail with "connection error occurred: string indices must be integers"

[dshuffin]

SUMMARY

Running zabbix_template_info and zabbix_template modules fail with "connection error occurred: string indices must be integers". This seems to happen when template has value maps defined. Another requirement is that the module exports the template from zabbix, so running zabbix_template_info with format none doesn't trigger the error. Also importing the template for the first time using zabbix_template doesn't trigger the error, but re-running the same task again does.

ISSUE TYPE

• Bug Report

COMPONENT NAME

zabbix_template_info

ANSIBLE VERSION

ansible [core 2.15.6]
  config file = /home/xxx/infrastructure/ansible.cfg
  configured module search path = ['/home/xxx/.ansible/plugins/modules', '/usr/share/ansible/plugins/modules']
  ansible python module location = /usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/ansible
  ansible collection location = /home/xxx/.ansible/collections:/usr/share/ansible/collections
  executable location = /usr/bin/ansible
  python version = 3.10.12 (main, Nov 20 2023, 15:14:05) [GCC 11.4.0] (/usr/bin/python3)
  jinja version = 3.0.3
  libyaml = True

CONFIGURATION

CONFIG_FILE() = /home/xxx/infrastructure/ansible.cfg
DEFAULT_LOAD_CALLBACK_PLUGINS(/home/xxx/infrastructure/ansible.cfg) = True
DEFAULT_MANAGED_STR(/home/xxx/infrastructure/ansible.cfg) = "$Ansible {{{{ template_path|basename + lookup('pipe', 'git log --format=",%%h %%ad %%ae" -1 --date=format:"%%Y-%%m-%%d %%H:%%M" ' + template_fullpath|quote)|default(>
DEFAULT_ROLES_PATH(/home/xxx/infrastructure/ansible.cfg) = ['/home/xxx/infrastructure/galaxy_roles', '/home/xxx/infrastructure/roles']
DEFAULT_STDOUT_CALLBACK(/home/xxx/infrastructure/ansible.cfg) = yaml
DEFAULT_TIMEOUT(/home/xxx/infrastructure/ansible.cfg) = 60

OS / ENVIRONMENT / Zabbix Version

Zabbix 6.0.23 Control node ubuntu 22.04.

STEPS TO REPRODUCE

export built-in template "APC UPS by SNMP" in json format using zabbix_template_info module

- name: Download Template
  tags: test
  community.zabbix.zabbix_template_info:
    template_name: "APC UPS by SNMP"
    format: json

EXPECTED RESULTS

exported template in json format

ACTUAL RESULTS

TASK [zabbix_templates : Download Template] *************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************
task path: /home/xxx/infrastructure/roles/zabbix_templates/tasks/main.yml:35
redirecting (type: connection) ansible.builtin.httpapi to ansible.netcommon.httpapi
Loading collection ansible.netcommon from /usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/ansible_collections/ansible/netcommon
Loading collection ansible.utils from /usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/ansible_collections/ansible/utils
<hostname> attempting to start connection
<hostname> using connection plugin ansible.netcommon.httpapi
Found ansible-connection at path /usr/bin/ansible-connection
<hostname> found existing local domain socket, using it!
<hostname> updating play_context for connection
<hostname> Loading collection ansible.builtin from
<hostname> local domain socket path is /home/xxx/.ansible/pc/d5d6474ecc
<hostname> ESTABLISH LOCAL CONNECTION FOR USER: xxx
<hostname> EXEC /bin/sh -c '( umask 77 && mkdir -p "` echo /home/xxx/.ansible/tmp/ansible-local-107907ztrb9f_x `"&& mkdir "` echo /home/xxx/.ansible/tmp/ansible-local-107907ztrb9f_x/ansible-tmp-1701711941.2163904-107934-240745331906759 `" && echo ansible-tmp-1701711941.2163904-107934-240745331906759="` echo /home/xxx/.ansible/tmp/ansible-local-107907ztrb9f_x/ansible-tmp-1701711941.2163904-107934-240745331906759 `" ) && sleep 0'
Using module file /usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/ansible_collections/community/zabbix/plugins/modules/zabbix_template_info.py
<hostname> PUT /home/xxx/.ansible/tmp/ansible-local-107907ztrb9f_x/tmpfqdcwf8w TO /home/xxx/.ansible/tmp/ansible-local-107907ztrb9f_x/ansible-tmp-1701711941.2163904-107934-240745331906759/AnsiballZ_zabbix_template_info.py
<hostname> EXEC /bin/sh -c 'chmod u+x /home/xxx/.ansible/tmp/ansible-local-107907ztrb9f_x/ansible-tmp-1701711941.2163904-107934-240745331906759/ /home/xxx/.ansible/tmp/ansible-local-107907ztrb9f_x/ansible-tmp-1701711941.2163904-107934-240745331906759/AnsiballZ_zabbix_template_info.py && sleep 0'
<hostname> EXEC /bin/sh -c '/usr/bin/python3 /home/xxx/.ansible/tmp/ansible-local-107907ztrb9f_x/ansible-tmp-1701711941.2163904-107934-240745331906759/AnsiballZ_zabbix_template_info.py && sleep 0'
<hostname> EXEC /bin/sh -c 'rm -f -r /home/xxx/.ansible/tmp/ansible-local-107907ztrb9f_x/ansible-tmp-1701711941.2163904-107934-240745331906759/ > /dev/null 2>&1 && sleep 0'
The full traceback is:
  File "/tmp/ansible_community.zabbix.zabbix_template_info_payload_7o9xjvz1/ansible_community.zabbix.zabbix_template_info_payload.zip/ansible_collections/community/zabbix/plugins/module_utils/api_request.py", line 29, in _httpapi_error_handle
    code, response = self.connection.send_request(data=payload)
  File "/tmp/ansible_community.zabbix.zabbix_template_info_payload_7o9xjvz1/ansible_community.zabbix.zabbix_template_info_payload.zip/ansible/module_utils/connection.py", line 200, in __rpc__
    raise ConnectionError(to_text(msg, errors='surrogate_then_replace'), code=code)
fatal: [hostname]: FAILED! => changed=false
  invocation:
    module_args:
      format: json
      http_login_password: null
      http_login_user: null
      omit_date: false
      template_name: APC UPS by SNMP
  msg: 'connection error occurred: string indices must be integers'

[BGmot]

Check this https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.zabbix/issues/1113 please.

[dshuffin]

Thank you, installing 2.2.0 from ansible-galaxy indeed fixed the issue. Any chance of getting 2.2.0 bundled into ansible package, as even the latest version 9.0.1 includes 2.1.0?

[BGmot]

This is weird indeed. That's probably because we still have "the latest" pointing to 2.1.0 https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.zabbix/releases. @pyrodie18 do you mind if I fix this? @dshuffin thanks for finding this inconsistency!

[BGmot]

fixed