Summary

The x2a-convertor generates an Ansible task that uses ansible.builtin.command with shell operators (||, &&, multi-line commands), which causes the task to fail at runtime. The command module does not pass arguments through a shell, so operators like || and && are interpreted as literal arguments.

Steps to Reproduce

1. Run x2a-convertor against the fastapi-tutorial Chef cookbook (source: https://github.com/x2ansible/chef-examples.git)
2. Publish the generated Ansible code to GitHub
3. Run the generated playbook against any target (e.g., Ubuntu 20.04 container)

Expected Result

The generated Ansible playbook runs successfully end-to-end.

Actual Result

The playbook fails at the "Create PostgreSQL user and database" task with:

fatal: [x2ansible-test-37]: FAILED! => {"msg": "non-zero return code", "rc": 1, "stderr": "/usr/lib/postgresql/12/bin/psql: invalid option -- 'u'"}

The generated task in roles/fastapi_tutorial_build_37/tasks/main.yml (line 41) is:

- name: Create PostgreSQL database and user
  ansible.builtin.command:     cmd: 'sudo -u postgres psql -c "CREATE USER ..." || true
      sudo -u postgres psql -c "CREATE DATABASE ..." || true
      sudo -u postgres psql -c "GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ..." || true'
  changed_when: false

Root Cause

ansible.builtin.command does NOT invoke a shell. It splits the cmd string on whitespace and passes each token as a positional argument. The ||, &&, and multi-line chaining are shell constructs that only work with ansible.builtin.shell.

Suggested Fix

Either:

• Use ansible.builtin.shell instead of ansible.builtin.command when the task requires shell operators
• Or split the task into three separate ansible.builtin.command tasks (one per SQL statement)
• Or use the community.postgresql.postgresql_user and community.postgresql.postgresql_db modules directly (best practice)

Environment

• x2a-convertor container image: quay.io/x2ansible/x2a-convertor:latest
• Source cookbook: fastapi-tutorial from https://github.com/x2ansible/chef-examples.git
• Target: Ubuntu 20.04 (geerlingguy/docker-ubuntu2004-ansible) via Podman
• Jenkins build: flightpath-x2ansible #37
• Discovered during automated end-to-end playbook testing