Correctly set path and fullpath for template vars (#73924)

* Correctly set path and fullpath for template vars

 don't expect path to always be full path
 also added exception/tb on action fail

1 files changed, 12 insertions, 3 deletions

diff --git a/lib/ansible/template/__init__.py b/lib/ansible/template/__init__.py
index b694927ed9..3a51fef2ad 100644
--- a/lib/ansible/template/__init__.py
+++ b/lib/ansible/template/__init__.py
@@ -100,8 +100,13 @@ JINJA2_END_TOKENS = frozenset(('variable_end', 'block_end', 'comment_end', 'raw_
 RANGE_TYPE = type(range(0))
 
 
-def generate_ansible_template_vars(path, dest_path=None):
-    b_path = to_bytes(path)
+def generate_ansible_template_vars(path, fullpath=None, dest_path=None):
+
+    if fullpath is None:
+        b_path = to_bytes(path)
+    else:
+        b_path = to_bytes(fullpath)
+
     try:
         template_uid = pwd.getpwuid(os.stat(b_path).st_uid).pw_name
     except (KeyError, TypeError):
@@ -112,11 +117,15 @@ def generate_ansible_template_vars(path, dest_path=None):
         'template_path': path,
         'template_mtime': datetime.datetime.fromtimestamp(os.path.getmtime(b_path)),
         'template_uid': to_text(template_uid),
-        'template_fullpath': os.path.abspath(path),
         'template_run_date': datetime.datetime.now(),
         'template_destpath': to_native(dest_path) if dest_path else None,
     }
 
+    if fullpath is None:
+        temp_vars['template_fullpath'] = os.path.abspath(path)
+    else:
+        temp_vars['template_fullpath'] = fullpath
+
     managed_default = C.DEFAULT_MANAGED_STR
     managed_str = managed_default.format(
         host=temp_vars['template_host'],