Show file instead of vars on load error

(cherry picked from commit 490795770f34120adc02b08fc24fc50be6ac68a2)

changelogs/fragments/varloaderror.yml

@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+bugfixes:
+  - Variable loading now uses file source instead of variables when invalidly formmated vars file is loaded.

lib/ansible/plugins/vars/host_group_vars.py

@@ -53,7 +53,7 @@ DOCUMENTATION = '''
 '''
 
 import os
-from ansible.errors import AnsibleParserError
+from ansible.errors import AnsibleError, AnsibleParserError
 from ansible.module_utils.common.text.converters import to_native
 from ansible.plugins.vars import BaseVarsPlugin
 from ansible.utils.path import basedir
@@ -75,7 +75,10 @@ class VarsModule(BaseVarsPlugin):
         for found in found_files:
             new_data = loader.load_from_file(found, cache='all', unsafe=True)
             if new_data:  # ignore empty files
-                data = combine_vars(data, new_data)
+                try:
+                    data = combine_vars(data, new_data)
+                except AnsibleError as e:
+                    raise AnsibleParserError("Could not process '%s'." % found, orig_exc=e)
         return data
 
     def get_vars(self, loader, path, entities, cache=True):

lib/ansible/utils/vars.py

@@ -69,9 +69,7 @@ def _validate_mutable_mappings(a, b):
                 myvars.append(dumps(x))
             except Exception:
                 myvars.append(to_native(x))
-        raise AnsibleError("failed to combine variables, expected dicts but got a '{0}' and a '{1}': \n{2}\n{3}".format(
-            a.__class__.__name__, b.__class__.__name__, myvars[0], myvars[1])
-        )
+        raise AnsibleError("failed to combine variables, expected dicts but got a '{0}' and a '{1}'.".format(a.__class__.__name__, b.__class__.__name__))
 
 
 def combine_vars(a, b, merge=None):

lib/ansible/vars/manager.py

@@ -60,7 +60,7 @@ def preprocess_vars(a):
 
     for item in data:
         if not isinstance(item, MutableMapping):
-            raise AnsibleError("variable files must contain either a dictionary of variables, or a list of dictionaries. Got: %s (%s)" % (a, type(a)))
+            raise AnsibleError("variable files must contain either a dictionary of variables, or a list of dictionaries. Got: %s " % (type(a)))
 
     return data
 
@@ -367,6 +367,8 @@ class VariableManager:
                                 continue
                             except AnsibleParserError:
                                 raise
+                            except AnsibleError as e:
+                                raise AnsibleError("Invalid vars_file '%s'." % found_file, orig_exc=e)
                     except (UndefinedError, AnsibleUndefinedVariable):
                         if host is not None and self._fact_cache.get(host.name, dict()).get('module_setup') and task is not None:
                             raise AnsibleUndefinedVariable("an undefined variable was found when attempting to template the vars_files item '%s'"

test/integration/targets/var_blending/error_handling.yml

@@ -0,0 +1,14 @@
+- hosts: all
+  name: test vault errors
+  gather_facts: false
+  tasks:
+
+  - name: bad included vault
+    include_vars:
+      file: vars/bad_vault.yml
+    tags: includevault, never
+    no_log: false
+
+  - name: Show bad vault contents ... if i get here, it was a good vault!
+    debug:
+      msg: "{{ test_password }} {{ jdbc_test_password }} {{ api_test_password }}"

test/integration/targets/var_blending/runme.sh

@@ -3,3 +3,12 @@
 set -eux
 
 ansible-playbook test_var_blending.yml -i inventory -e @test_vars.yml -v "$@"
+
+# check bad vault file erros
+[ "$(ansible-playbook error_handling.yml -i inventory --vault-password-file supersecretvaultsecret -e @vars/bad_vault.yml 2>&1 | grep -c 'dummy')" -eq "0" ]
+[ "$(ansible-playbook error_handling.yml -i inventory --vault-password-file supersecretvaultsecret --tags includevault 2>&1 | grep -c 'dummy')" -eq "0" ]
+
+# setup group file for bad vault tests
+trap 'rm group_vars/local/bad_vault.yml' EXIT
+ln -s "${PWD}/vars/bad_vault.yml" group_vars/local/
+[ "$(ansible-playbook error_handling.yml -i inventory --vault-password-file supersecretvaultsecret 2>&1 | grep -c 'dummy')" -eq "0" ]

test/integration/targets/var_blending/supersecretvaultsecret

@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+test

test/integration/targets/var_blending/vars/bad_vault.yml

@@ -0,0 +1,10 @@
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