AttributeError: 'AnsibleUnicode' object has no attribute 'items'

[lerwys]

Summary

ansible-lint crashes on a simple meta/requirements.yml file, as supported by ansible here: https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/galaxy/user_guide.html#using-meta-requirements-yml

Issue Type

• Bug Report

Ansible and Ansible Lint details

$ ansible --version
ansible 2.10.4
  config file = None
  configured module search path = ['/home/lerwys/.ansible/plugins/modules', '/usr/share/ansible/plugins/modules']
  ansible python module location = /home/lerwys/.local/lib/python3.8/site-packages/ansible
  executable location = /home/lerwys/.local/bin/ansible
  python version = 3.8.5 (default, Jul 28 2020, 12:59:40) [GCC 9.3.0]

$ ansible-lint --version
ansible-lint 5.0.0a1.dev2

• ansible installation method: pip
• ansible-lint installation method:pip

OS / ENVIRONMENT

Distributor ID: Ubuntu
Description:    Ubuntu 20.04.1 LTS
Release:        20.04
Codename:       focal

STEPS TO REPRODUCE

In a meta/requirements.yml with the below content run ansible-lint .

meta/requirements.yml:

---
- lerwys.epics

$ ansible-lint -vvv .
DEBUG    Logging initialized to level 10
DEBUG    Options: Namespace(colored=True, config_file=None, display_relative_path=True, exclude_paths=[], format='rich', lintables=['.'], listrules=False, listtags=False, parseable=False, parseable_severity=False, progressive=False, quiet=False, rulesdir=[], skip_list=[], tags=[], use_default_rules=False, verbosity=3, warn_list=['experimental'])
DEBUG    Loading rules from /home/lerwys/.local/lib/python3.8/site-packages/ansible_lint-5.0.0a1.dev2-py3.8.egg/ansiblelint/rules
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/home/lerwys/.local/bin/ansible-lint", line 11, in <module>
    load_entry_point('ansible-lint==5.0.0a1.dev2', 'console_scripts', 'ansible-lint')()
  File "/home/lerwys/.local/lib/python3.8/site-packages/ansible_lint-5.0.0a1.dev2-py3.8.egg/ansiblelint/__main__.py", line 287, in _run_cli_entrypoint
    sys.exit(main(sys.argv))
  File "/home/lerwys/.local/lib/python3.8/site-packages/ansible_lint-5.0.0a1.dev2-py3.8.egg/ansiblelint/__main__.py", line 173, in main
    result = _get_matches(rules, options)
  File "/home/lerwys/.local/lib/python3.8/site-packages/ansible_lint-5.0.0a1.dev2-py3.8.egg/ansiblelint/__main__.py", line 247, in _get_matches
    matches.extend(runner.run())
  File "/home/lerwys/.local/lib/python3.8/site-packages/ansible_lint-5.0.0a1.dev2-py3.8.egg/ansiblelint/runner.py", line 90, in run
    matches.extend(self._emit_matches(files))
  File "/home/lerwys/.local/lib/python3.8/site-packages/ansible_lint-5.0.0a1.dev2-py3.8.egg/ansiblelint/runner.py", line 117, in _emit_matches
    for child in ansiblelint.utils.find_children(arg, self.playbook_dir):
  File "/home/lerwys/.local/lib/python3.8/site-packages/ansible_lint-5.0.0a1.dev2-py3.8.egg/ansiblelint/utils.py", line 189, in find_children
    items = _playbook_items(playbook_ds)
  File "/home/lerwys/.local/lib/python3.8/site-packages/ansible_lint-5.0.0a1.dev2-py3.8.egg/ansiblelint/utils.py", line 151, in _playbook_items
    return [item for play in pb_data if play for item in play.items()]
  File "/home/lerwys/.local/lib/python3.8/site-packages/ansible_lint-5.0.0a1.dev2-py3.8.egg/ansiblelint/utils.py", line 151, in <listcomp>
    return [item for play in pb_data if play for item in play.items()]
AttributeError: 'AnsibleUnicode' object has no attribute 'items'

Desired Behaviour

ansible-lint to be run without crashing

Actual Behaviour

ansible-lint is crashing with the above stacktrace

[lerwys]

Anybody with the same issue? Is this reproducible? Thanks!