From 1469ec448771a299fce9aefd877e3190a2bed91a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Brian Coca <bcoca@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Mon, 19 Nov 2018 11:45:45 -0500
Subject: [PATCH] better handling of bad type in config (#48821)

* better handling of bad type in config

 fixes #22468, fixes #22476


(cherry picked from commit 87e44a7ed137d0c34b180dfb4e8ba9ed600c28e6)
---
 changelogs/fragments/deal_with_bad_config_types.yml |  2 ++
 lib/ansible/config/manager.py                       | 10 +++++++++-
 test/integration/targets/config/aliases             |  1 +
 test/integration/targets/config/runme.sh            | 10 ++++++++++
 4 files changed, 22 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
 create mode 100644 changelogs/fragments/deal_with_bad_config_types.yml
 create mode 100644 test/integration/targets/config/aliases
 create mode 100755 test/integration/targets/config/runme.sh

diff --git a/changelogs/fragments/deal_with_bad_config_types.yml b/changelogs/fragments/deal_with_bad_config_types.yml
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..c7b2f99426c
--- /dev/null
+++ b/changelogs/fragments/deal_with_bad_config_types.yml
@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+bugfixes:
+    - better error message when bad type in config, deal with EVNAR= more gracefully https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/22470
diff --git a/lib/ansible/config/manager.py b/lib/ansible/config/manager.py
index 6a7b388f37e..edabf771668 100644
--- a/lib/ansible/config/manager.py
+++ b/lib/ansible/config/manager.py
@@ -430,7 +430,15 @@ class ConfigManager(object):
                             return value, origin
 
             # ensure correct type, can raise exceptoins on mismatched types
-            value = ensure_type(value, defs[config].get('type'), origin=origin)
+            try:
+                value = ensure_type(value, defs[config].get('type'), origin=origin)
+            except ValueError as e:
+                if origin.startswith('env:') and value == '':
+                    # this is empty env var for non string so we can set to default
+                    origin = 'default'
+                    value = ensure_type(defs[config].get('default'), defs[config].get('type'), origin=origin)
+                else:
+                    raise AnsibleOptionsError('Invalid type for configuration option %s: %s' % (to_native(config), to_native(e)))
 
             # deal with deprecation of the setting
             if 'deprecated' in defs[config] and origin != 'default':
diff --git a/test/integration/targets/config/aliases b/test/integration/targets/config/aliases
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..a6dafcf8cd8
--- /dev/null
+++ b/test/integration/targets/config/aliases
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+shippable/posix/group1
diff --git a/test/integration/targets/config/runme.sh b/test/integration/targets/config/runme.sh
new file mode 100755
index 00000000000..f0181afc3ab
--- /dev/null
+++ b/test/integration/targets/config/runme.sh
@@ -0,0 +1,10 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env bash
+
+set -eux
+
+# ignore empty env var and use default
+# shellcheck disable=SC1007
+ANSIBLE_TIMEOUT= ansible -m ping localhost "$@"
+
+# env var is wrong type, this should be a fatal error pointing at the setting
+ANSIBLE_TIMEOUT='lola' ansible -m ping localhost "$@" 2>&1|grep 'AnsibleOptionsError: Invalid type for configuration option DEFAULT_TIMEOUT'