fix: handle ansible encoding errors and update rocky9 package assertion

test/test_backends.py

@@ -87,7 +87,8 @@ def test_encoding(host):
     elif host.backend.get_connection_type() == "ansible" and host.backend.force_ansible:
         # XXX: this encoding issue comes directly from ansible
         # not sure how to handle this...
-        assert (
+        assert cmd.failed
+        assert "surrogates not allowed" in cmd.stderr or (
             cmd.stderr
             == "ls: impossible d'acc\udce9der \udce0 '/é': Aucun fichier ou dossier de ce type"
         )

test/test_modules.py

@@ -39,7 +39,7 @@ def test_package(host, docker_image):
     assert not host.package("zsh").is_installed
     ssh = host.package("openssh-server")
     version = {
-        "rockylinux9": "8.",
+        "rockylinux9": "9.",
         "debian_bookworm": "1:9.2",
     }[docker_image]
     assert ssh.is_installed

testinfra/backend/ansible.py

@@ -61,11 +61,16 @@ def run(self, command: str, *args: str, **kwargs: Any) -> base.CommandResult:
             data = json.loads(out["module_stdout"])
             stdout = data["stdout"]
             stderr = data["stderr"]
-        else:
+        elif "stdout" in out:
             # bw compat
             stdout = out["stdout"]
             stderr = out["stderr"]
-        return self.result(out["rc"], self.encode(command), stdout, stderr)
+        else:
+            # Ansible command failed (e.g. encoding error) with only a msg
+            stdout = ""
+            stderr = out.get("msg", "")
+        rc = out.get("rc", 1)
+        return self.result(rc, self.encode(command), stdout, stderr)
 
     def run_ansible(
         self, module_name: str, module_args: Optional[str] = None, **kwargs: Any