jinja2 cannot handle byte strs with non-ascii. So we need to transform potential byte str into unicode type. This fix is for dynamic inventory.

Fixes #10007

lib/ansible/callbacks.py

@@ -456,6 +456,8 @@ class PlaybookRunnerCallbacks(DefaultRunnerCallbacks):
         item = None
         if type(results) == dict:
             item = results.get('item', None)
+        host = utils.to_bytes(host)
+        results = utils.to_bytes(results)
         if item:
             msg = "fatal: [%s] => (item=%s) => %s" % (host, item, results)
         else:

lib/ansible/inventory/script.py

@@ -22,7 +22,7 @@ import subprocess
 import ansible.constants as C
 from ansible.inventory.host import Host
 from ansible.inventory.group import Group
-from ansible.module_utils.basic import json_dict_unicode_to_bytes
+from ansible.module_utils.basic import json_dict_bytes_to_unicode
 from ansible import utils
 from ansible import errors
 import sys
@@ -59,7 +59,7 @@ class InventoryScript(object):
 
         # not passing from_remote because data from CMDB is trusted
         self.raw  = utils.parse_json(self.data)
-        self.raw  = json_dict_unicode_to_bytes(self.raw)
+        self.raw  = json_dict_bytes_to_unicode(self.raw)
 
         all       = Group('all')
         groups    = dict(all=all)

lib/ansible/module_utils/basic.py

@@ -251,6 +251,24 @@ def json_dict_unicode_to_bytes(d):
     else:
         return d
 
+def json_dict_bytes_to_unicode(d):
+    ''' Recursively convert dict keys and values to byte str
+
+        Specialized for json return because this only handles, lists, tuples,
+        and dict container types (the containers that the json module returns)
+    '''
+
+    if isinstance(d, str):
+        return unicode(d, 'utf-8')
+    elif isinstance(d, dict):
+        return dict(map(json_dict_bytes_to_unicode, d.iteritems()))
+    elif isinstance(d, list):
+        return list(map(json_dict_bytes_to_unicode, d))
+    elif isinstance(d, tuple):
+        return tuple(map(json_dict_bytes_to_unicode, d))
+    else:
+        return d
+
 
 class AnsibleModule(object):
 

v2/ansible/inventory/script.py

@@ -22,7 +22,7 @@ import subprocess
 import ansible.constants as C
 from ansible.inventory.host import Host
 from ansible.inventory.group import Group
-from ansible.module_utils.basic import json_dict_unicode_to_bytes
+from ansible.module_utils.basic import json_dict_bytes_to_unicode
 from ansible import utils
 from ansible import errors
 import sys
@@ -59,7 +59,7 @@ class InventoryScript(object):
 
         # not passing from_remote because data from CMDB is trusted
         self.raw  = utils.parse_json(self.data)
-        self.raw  = json_dict_unicode_to_bytes(self.raw)
+        self.raw  = json_dict_bytes_to_unicode(self.raw)
 
         all       = Group('all')
         groups    = dict(all=all)

v2/ansible/module_utils/basic.py

@@ -251,6 +251,24 @@ def json_dict_unicode_to_bytes(d):
     else:
         return d
 
+def json_dict_bytes_to_unicode(d):
+    ''' Recursively convert dict keys and values to byte str
+
+        Specialized for json return because this only handles, lists, tuples,
+        and dict container types (the containers that the json module returns)
+    '''
+
+    if isinstance(d, str):
+        return unicode(d, 'utf-8')
+    elif isinstance(d, dict):
+        return dict(map(json_dict_bytes_to_unicode, d.iteritems()))
+    elif isinstance(d, list):
+        return list(map(json_dict_bytes_to_unicode, d))
+    elif isinstance(d, tuple):
+        return tuple(map(json_dict_bytes_to_unicode, d))
+    else:
+        return d
+
 
 class AnsibleModule(object):