Constructed inventory will fail if encrypted variables are used.

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Bug Summary

The following constructed inventory will fail if the tested variable is containing encrypted data.

---
plugin: constructed
strict: true
use_vars_plugins: true
groups:
  dict_group: test_dict is defined

If a host_vars contains this it will fail:

test_dict:
  name: host2
  password: '{{ test_secret }}'

test_secret: '{{ test_secret_vault }}'
test_secret_vault: !vault |
  $ANSIBLE_VAULT;1.2;AES256;all
  36343365643636653362623963373537393562663633333936323934333066653736373032616336
  6335363532663539333437393964663731336532383562340a633937393932626239363832383032
  38663333386665336337666563666264653334623138666165613030613132353366383965323864
  3038653332303664340a343636663030386362636138366431633462616663373933373834353765
  3136

AWX version

23.4.0

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Installation method

kubernetes

Modifications

Ansible version

Operating system

Web browser

Edge

Steps to reproduce

You can find a complete test inventory here: https://github.com/janorn/awx_inventory.git

Us it and create a constructed inventory with the following config:

---
plugin: constructed
strict: true
use_vars_plugins: true
groups:
  dict_group: test_dict is defined

Hit sync and it will fail.

Expected results

A new inventory with only two hosts

Actual results

'{'name': 'host2', 'password': '{{ test_secret }}'}'. Error was a <class 'ansible.errors.AnsibleError'>, original message: An unhandled exception occurred while templating '{{ test_secret_vault }}'. Error was a <class 'ansible.parsing.vault.AnsibleVaultError'>, original message: Attempting to decrypt but no vault secrets found . Could not add host host2 to group dict_group: An unhandled exception occurred while templating '{'name': 'host2', 'password': '{{ test_secret }}'}'. Error was a <class 'ansible.errors.AnsibleError'>, original message: An unhandled exception occurred while templating '{{ test_secret_vault }}'. Error was a <class 'ansible.parsing.vault.AnsibleVaultError'>, original message: Attempting to decrypt but no vault secrets found [WARNING]: * Failed to parse /runner/inventory/constructed.yml with script plugin: problem running /runner/inventory/constructed.yml --list ([Errno 8] Exec format error: '/runner/inventory/constructed.yml') ERROR! Completely failed to parse inventory source /runner/inventory/constructed.yml

Additional information

'{'name': 'host2', 'password': '{{ test_secret }}'}'. Error was a <class
'ansible.errors.AnsibleError'>, original message: An unhandled exception
occurred while templating '{{ test_secret_vault }}'. Error was a <class
'ansible.parsing.vault.AnsibleVaultError'>, original message: Attempting to
decrypt but no vault secrets found . Could not add host host2 to group
dict_group: An unhandled exception occurred while templating '{'name': 'host2',
'password': '{{ test_secret }}'}'. Error was a <class
'ansible.errors.AnsibleError'>, original message: An unhandled exception
occurred while templating '{{ test_secret_vault }}'. Error was a <class
'ansible.parsing.vault.AnsibleVaultError'>, original message: Attempting to
decrypt but no vault secrets found
[WARNING]:  * Failed to parse /runner/inventory/constructed.yml with script
plugin: problem running /runner/inventory/constructed.yml --list ([Errno 8]
Exec format error: '/runner/inventory/constructed.yml')
ERROR! Completely failed to parse inventory source /runner/inventory/constructed.yml

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