IndexError is thrown from jinja.py with basic profile and --write=all option

[TamiTakamiya]

Summary

IndexError is thrown from jinja.py with basic profile and --write=all option

Issue Type

• Bug Report

OS / ENVIRONMENT

ansible-lint 6.19.0 using ansible-core:2.15.4 ansible-compat:4.1.10 ruamel-yaml:0.17.32 ruamel-yaml-clib:0.2.7

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

STEPS TO REPRODUCE

git clone https://github.com/IBM/Ansible-OpenShift-Provisioning.git
cd Ansible-OpenShift-Provisioning.git
ansible-lint --profile basic --write=all playbooks/5_setup_bastion.yaml

Desired Behavior

No error occurs.

Actual Behavior

IndexError: list index out of range error occurs.

• minimized playbook to reproduce the error

---
- name: Sample
  hosts: all
  tasks:
    - name: Generate keypair
      community.crypto.openssh_keypair:
        path: "{{ env.path }}"
      when: ( env.path is not none )

• the output of running ansible-lint including the command line used

ansible-lint --profile basic --write=all playbooks/5_setup_bastion.yaml
INFO     Identified /var/tmp/work/Ansible-OpenShift-Provisioning as project root due config file /var/tmp/work/Ansible-OpenShift-Provisioning/.ansible-lint.
INFO     Set ANSIBLE_LIBRARY=/home/ttakamiy/.cache/ansible-compat/184aba/modules:/home/ttakamiy/.ansible/plugins/modules:/usr/share/ansible/plugins/modules
INFO     Set ANSIBLE_COLLECTIONS_PATH=/home/ttakamiy/.cache/ansible-compat/184aba/collections:/home/ttakamiy/.ansible/collections:/usr/share/ansible/collections
INFO     Set ANSIBLE_ROLES_PATH=/home/ttakamiy/.cache/ansible-compat/184aba/roles:roles:/var/tmp/work/Ansible-OpenShift-Provisioning/roles
INFO     Set ANSIBLE_LIBRARY=/home/ttakamiy/.cache/ansible-compat/184aba/modules:/home/ttakamiy/.ansible/plugins/modules:/usr/share/ansible/plugins/modules
INFO     Set ANSIBLE_COLLECTIONS_PATH=/home/ttakamiy/.cache/ansible-compat/184aba/collections:/home/ttakamiy/.ansible/collections:/usr/share/ansible/collections
INFO     Set ANSIBLE_ROLES_PATH=/home/ttakamiy/.cache/ansible-compat/184aba/roles:roles:/var/tmp/work/Ansible-OpenShift-Provisioning/roles
INFO     Executing syntax check on playbook playbooks/5_setup_bastion.yaml (0.41s)
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/var/tmp/work/venv/bin/ansible-lint", line 8, in <module>
    sys.exit(_run_cli_entrypoint())
             ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
  File "/var/tmp/work/venv/lib64/python3.11/site-packages/ansiblelint/__main__.py", line 317, in _run_cli_entrypoint
    sys.exit(main(sys.argv))
             ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
  File "/var/tmp/work/venv/lib64/python3.11/site-packages/ansiblelint/__main__.py", line 281, in main
    _do_transform(result, options)
  File "/var/tmp/work/venv/lib64/python3.11/site-packages/ansiblelint/__main__.py", line 192, in _do_transform
    transformer.run()
  File "/var/tmp/work/venv/lib64/python3.11/site-packages/ansiblelint/transformer.py", line 110, in run
    self._do_transforms(file, ruamel_data or data, file_is_yaml, matches)
  File "/var/tmp/work/venv/lib64/python3.11/site-packages/ansiblelint/transformer.py", line 147, in _do_transforms
    match.rule.transform(match, file, data)
  File "/var/tmp/work/venv/lib64/python3.11/site-packages/ansiblelint/rules/jinja.py", line 422, in transform
    self._transform_spacing(match, data)
  File "/var/tmp/work/venv/lib64/python3.11/site-packages/ansiblelint/rules/jinja.py", line 461, in _transform_spacing
    obj[path[-1]][key] = match.transform_meta.fixed
        ~~~~^^^^
IndexError: list index out of range

• if you're getting a stack trace, also the output of
  ansible-playbook --syntax-check playbook

ansible-playbook --syntax-check playbooks/5_setup_bastion.yaml
[WARNING]: Unable to parse /var/tmp/work/Ansible-OpenShift-Provisioning/inventories/default as an inventory
source
[WARNING]: No inventory was parsed, only implicit localhost is available
[WARNING]: provided hosts list is empty, only localhost is available. Note that the implicit localhost does not
match 'all'
[WARNING]: Could not match supplied host pattern, ignoring: jumphost
[WARNING]: Could not match supplied host pattern, ignoring: bastion
[WARNING]: Could not match supplied host pattern, ignoring: kvm_host

playbook: playbooks/5_setup_bastion.yaml

[TamiTakamiya]

This problem also occurs with following five files in the ansible-examples repository.

• phillips_hue/ansible_colors.yml
• phillips_hue/effect.yml
• phillips_hue/on_off.yml
• language_features/prompts.yml
• language_features/conditionals_part2.yml

[TamiTakamiya]

@ssbarnea Thank you for your quick fix.