Custom notification not sent when data contains double quotes

[Abd (Mec)]

Notification is not sent when custom data in the notification template contains a string that contains double or single quotes. I am using a webhook, that posts some data. I am also using job.artifacts to pass some data to the notification template. I have listed the two problamatic cases below.

Has anyone encountered this or is fmailiar with what is the cause for this behaviour.

Any help is highly appreciated

AWX version

23.5.1

Ansible version

2.11.12

Operating system

CentOS

Steps to reproduce

A playbook that contains the following:

- hosts: all
  gather_facts: true

  tasks:    
    - name: "[playbook_simple_test] Test Task."
      ansible.builtin.set_stats:
        aggregate: false
        per_host: false
        data:
          "{{ data_obj }}"

      register: some_test  

The notification template contains the following:

• Created:

{{ job_metadata }}

• Success message body:

{
  "job.id": "{{ job.id }}",
  "job.status": "{{ job.status }}",
  "job.artifacts": "{{ job.artifacts }}"
}

• Error message body:

{
  "job.id": "{{ job.id }}",
  "job.status": "{{ job.status }}",
  "job.artifacts": "{{ job.artifacts }}"
}

There are the following three cases in a job template:

1. w/o double quotes ("):
   Extra-vars:

{
  "data_obj": {
    "some_str": "This contains no double quotes."
  }
}

2. contains double quotes ("):
   Extra-vars:

{
  "data_obj": {
    "some_str": "This contains double quotes \" in the middle of text."
  }
}

3. contains a stringified json

{
  "data_obj": {
    "some_str": "{\"key1\": \"value1\", \"key2\": \"value2\"}"
  }
}

Expected results

metadata
{“job.id”: “xxxxx”, “job.status”: “successful”, “job.artifacts”: {“some_str”: “string content”}}

Actual results

1. w/o double quotes in string:
   metadata
   {“job.id”: “xxxxx”, “job.status”: “successful”, “job.artifacts”: {“some_str”: “This contains double quotes " in the middle of text.”}}

2. contains double quotes ("):
   metadata
   No Notification

3. contains stringified json:
   metadata
   No Notification

[djyasin (Lila Yasin)]

Hello @Abd we did see your GitHub Issue and this does seem to be a bug. We are continuing to triage this on your issue. Thank you for bringing this to our attention!

Custom notification not sent when data contains double quotes