Jinja condition is not being evaluated correctly in salt-ssh minion

[admd]

Description of Issue

I need to check if salt module exist before executing it. So I have a Jinja condition in statefile but it is not working on salt-ssh minion.

Setup

{% if 'network.fqdns' in salt %}
fqdns:
  module.run:
    - name: network.fqdns
{% endif%}

Above excerpt correctly returns nothing when executed on a regular minion and network.fqdns module is not available. But when executed on a salt-ssh minion, it returns.

   module_|-fqdns_|-network.fqdns_|-run": {
            "__id__": "fqdns",
            "__run_num__": 10,
            "changes": {},
            "comment": "Module function network.fqdns is not available",
            "duration": 343.473,
            "name": "network.fqdns",
            "result": false,
            "start_time": "13:14:03.907709"
        }

which is not what I expect.

Steps to Reproduce Issue

Execute a state with a condition like above, once on a regular minion and once on salt-ssh minion. Regular minion will return nothing in case module is not there while salt-ssh minions will return the result as mentioned above.

Versions Report

Salt Version:
           Salt: 2019.2.0
 
Dependency Versions:
           cffi: 1.5.2
       cherrypy: Not Installed
       dateutil: Not Installed
      docker-py: Not Installed
          gitdb: Not Installed
      gitpython: Not Installed
          ioflo: Not Installed
         Jinja2: 2.8
        libgit2: Not Installed
        libnacl: Not Installed
       M2Crypto: Not Installed
           Mako: Not Installed
   msgpack-pure: Not Installed
 msgpack-python: 0.4.6
   mysql-python: Not Installed
      pycparser: 2.10
       pycrypto: 2.6.1
   pycryptodome: Not Installed
         pygit2: Not Installed
         Python: 2.7.13 (default, Jan 11 2017, 10:56:06) [GCC]
   python-gnupg: Not Installed
         PyYAML: 3.10
          PyZMQ: 14.0.0
           RAET: Not Installed
          smmap: Not Installed
        timelib: Not Installed
        Tornado: 4.2.1
            ZMQ: 4.0.4
 
System Versions:
           dist: SuSE 12 x86_64
         locale: UTF-8
        machine: x86_64
        release: 4.4.21-69-default
         system: Linux
        version: SUSE Linux Enterprise Server  12 x86_64

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[admd]

This problem still exists and I would appreciate it if someone from the salt team could provide some information about the possible fix.

[max-arnold]

I'm also interested in a fix. The root of the problem seems to be here:

https://github.com/saltstack/salt/blob/master/salt/client/ssh/wrapper/__init__.py#L66-L99

According to Python docs, __getitem__ should raise KeyError if the key is not found. This is not the case. The method returns None and this somehow evaluates as True in Jinja.

However, adding raise KeyError(cmd) at the end fails with KeyError: 'test.opts_pkg' that is used by salt-ssh earlier.

@Ch3LL Maybe you can shed some light on this issue (and also reopen it)?

[max-arnold]

@admd The workaround is to use the following syntax:

{% if salt.get('network.fqdns', None) %}

[brejoc]

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