Failed to connect to the host via ssh: hostname contains invalid characters when using $playbook->inventory(...)

[Persaeus]

ansible-playbook [core 2.15.8]

$ansible = (new Ansible())->playbook()->inventory(['foo.local']);

The above example fails with the following error:

fatal: ["foo.local]: UNREACHABLE! => {
    "changed": false,
    "msg": "Failed to connect to the host via ssh: hostname contains invalid characters",
    "unreachable": true
}

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Looking through the logs, it appears the --inventory option is added using incorrect format:

'ansible-playbook' 'playbook.yml' '--inventory="foo.local,"'

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Removing the double-quotes around the hostname fixes the connection issue:

php-ansible/Asm/Ansible/Command/AnsiblePlaybook.php

Line 295 in 4e96de9

$this->addOption('--inventory', sprintf('"%s"', $hostList));

Should be changed to:

$this->addOption('--inventory', sprintf('%s', $hostList));

[maschmann]

Hi @Persaeus - just to clarify: What kind of system did you run ansible on, so I can try to replicate?

[Persaeus]

Hi @maschmann. I encountered this inside a Docker container built using ubuntu:22.04 on aarch64, PHP 8.3.2.

My current workaround looks like this (using spatie/invade to access private method addOption):

invade($playbook)->addOption('--inventory', sprintf('%s', "$ipAddress,"));