ansible-core 2.19 - fails on template lookup

[garethahealy]

SUMMARY

I ran the install on a new RHEL9 box today, which didn't pin the ansible-core version, so I got 2.19 - confused for a few hours, I eventually realised that the below error is probably due to the 2.19. Works fine/expected on 2.18.

This is just an FYI:

TASK [redhat.amq_broker.amq_broker : Validate local custom template] *************************************************************************************************************************************************
task path: /home/ec2-user/.ansible/collections/ansible_collections/redhat/amq_broker/roles/amq_broker/tasks/prereqs.yml:96
[ERROR]: Task failed: Conditional result was '# Ansible managed # Licensed to [...]' of type 'str', which evaluates to True. Conditionals must have a boolean result.

Task failed.
Origin: /home/ec2-user/.ansible/collections/ansible_collections/redhat/amq_broker/roles/amq_broker/tasks/prereqs.yml:96:3

94   run_once: true
95
96 - name: Validate local custom template
     ^ column 3

<<< caused by >>>

Conditional result was '# Ansible managed # Licensed to [...]' of type 'str', which evaluates to True. Conditionals must have a boolean result.
Origin: /home/ec2-user/.ansible/collections/ansible_collections/redhat/amq_broker/roles/amq_broker/tasks/prereqs.yml:99:9

97   ansible.builtin.assert:
98     that:
99       - lookup('ansible.builtin.template', amq_broker_logger_config_template)
           ^ column 9

Broken conditionals can be temporarily allowed with the `ALLOW_BROKEN_CONDITIONALS` configuration option.

fatal: [ip-11-0-1-6.eu-west-2.compute.internal]: FAILED! => {
    "changed": false,
    "msg": "Task failed: Conditional result was '# Ansible managed # Licensed to [...]' of type 'str', which evaluates to True. Conditionals must have a boolean result."
}

[RanabirChakraborty]

Thank you for the issue @garethahealy , now we have updated our tests as well and we can also see the errors happening for ansible-core 2.19, if can see those here - https://github.com/ansible-middleware/amq/actions/runs/17541606735/job/49858176229, We'll try to fix those one by one.

[RanabirChakraborty]

@garethahealy please verify the collection now using amq_broker 2.3.5