Error with splitting Arguments due to bad quotes Ansible - ansible

Question

I am writing a script, which should alter the Users of all Tenants of the Database. When i print the Command and execute it from hand on the Server, it works fine. With the Command Module i get this weird Error:
ERROR! failed at splitting arguments, either an unbalanced jinja2 block or quotes: {{ _hdbclient }} -U BASIS_{{ SID }}_{{ item.item }} -x -a "{{ item.stdout | replace('"', '')}}"
The error appears to be in '/tmp/awx_313202_z7e4l568/project/ansible_labor/scripts/update_users.yml': line 37, column 5, but may
be elsewhere in the file depending on the exact syntax problem.
The offending line appears to be:
- name: Execute Querys on Tenants
^ here
I think it has something to do with the Quotes in the Command Module.
This is the Script:
---
- name: Update all Users in DB
hosts: '*'
become: true
vars:
_User: "{{ lookup('env', 'USER') | upper }}_M"
_pattern: ^\"[a-zA-Z0-9]*\"
_tenants: []
_query: select 'alter user ' || user_name || ' IDENTIFIED EXTERNALLY AS ''' || user_name ||'#INTERN'';' as todo from users where EXTERNAL_IDENTITY LIKE '%COMPANY.DE';
_hdbclient: "/hana/shared/{{ SID }}/hdbclient/hdbsql -i {{ Instanz }} -n {{ inventory_hostname }}"
tasks:
- name: "Tenants der DB auslesen"
command: "{{ _hdbclient }} -U BASIS_{{ SID }}_SYSTEMDB -x -a 'SELECT * FROM M_DATABASES'"
register: tenants
- debug:
msg: "{{ tenants }}"
- set_fact:
_tenants: "{{ _tenants + [ item | regex_search(_pattern) | replace('\"', '') ] }}"
with_items: "{{ tenants.stdout_lines }}"
- name: Print extracted Tenants
debug:
msg: "{{ _tenants }}"
- name: Create Query on Tenant
command: '{{ _hdbclient }} -U BASIS_{{ SID }}_{{ item }} -x -a "{{ _query }}"'
register: query_tenants
with_items: "{{ _tenants }}"
- name: Print All Queries
debug:
msg: "{{ query_tenants.results[1] }}"
- name: Execute Querys on Tenants
command: "{{ _hdbclient }} -U BASIS_{{ SID }}_{{ item.item }} -x -a \"{{ item.stdout | replace('\"', '')}}\" "
with_items: "{{ query_tenants.results }}"

Answer 1

This is an escape issue inside your replace filter. You need to replace double quotes which translates as a string to \". Since that string is itself inside a double quoted string you have to escape the escape => \\\n
So keeping your initial quoting this gives:
command: "{{ _hdbclient }} -U BASIS_{{ SID }}_{{ item.item }} -x -a \"{{ item.stdout | replace('\\\"', '') }}\""
Meanwhile there are a few (non exhaustive list) alternatives you might want to consider:
command: '{{ _hdbclient }} -U BASIS_{{ SID }}_{{ item.item }} -x -a "{{ item.stdout | replace("\"", "") }}"'
command: >-
{{ _hdbclient }} -U BASIS_{{ SID }}_{{ item.item }} -x -a "{{ item.stdout | replace("\"", "") }}"