ansible-navigator ignores $TERM settings

[olbohlen]

ISSUE TYPE

• Bug Report

SUMMARY

Running ansible-navigator from a dumb terminal (jenkins, non ttys, or emacs eshell) produces weird output

ANSIBLE-NAVIGATOR VERSION

(1139) heavy:/home/olbohlen$ ansible-navigator --version                      
ansible-navigator 24.3.2

CONFIGURATION

$ cat .ansible-navigator.yaml

ansible-navigator:
color:
enable: true
mode: stdout
editor:
command: /bin/emacsclient
playbook-artifact:
enable: false
execution-environment:
image: registry.redhat.io/ansible-automation-platform-23/ee-supported-rhel8:latest
environment-variables:
set:
PAGER: cat
pull:
policy: missing
logging:
file: /tmp/ansible-navigator.log
append: true
level: debug

LOG FILE

[olbohlen@heavy scratch]$ TERM=dumb ansible-navigator run hello.yaml
[WARNING]: provided hosts list is empty, only localhost is available. Note that the
implicit localhost does not match 'all'
eyJ1dWlkIjogImUwNDRjNWFmLTRjMGYtNDA4NS05NWJmLWFiMmJmYzZkYzY5YiJ9e30=eyJ1dWlkIjogIjQ2ZDIyNzRmLWIxZGEtOTJlYS1kOTE5LTAwMDAwMDAwMDAwMSJ9
PLAY [Sample Play] *************************************************************************
e30=eyJ1dWlkIjogIjQ2ZDIyNzRmLWIxZGEtOTJlYS1kOTE5LTAwMDAwMDAwMDAwOCJ9
TASK [Gathering Facts] *********************************************************************
e30=eyJ1dWlkIjogImQ1N2JhN2IwLTQ1YzgtNDM4NS05OWM1LWVmMWIyZjlkODM5ZCJ9e30=eyJ1dWlkIjogIjZmMjYzZTljLWI2MGMtNGU2OC1hZjg2LTZiYjczNWYyZGU1ZCJ9ok: [localhost]
e30=eyJ1dWlkIjogIjQ2ZDIyNzRmLWIxZGEtOTJlYS1kOTE5LTAwMDAwMDAwMDAwMyJ9
TASK [print a hello message] ***************************************************************
e30=eyJ1dWlkIjogIjllNWUyMmVkLWZiZTktNDJlYy04NGFiLWYyOTI5ODE4Y2IwMSJ9e30=eyJ1dWlkIjogImNhYjNiN2MzLWYxZDItNDRhMC04Njc4LTViYTNkZGNhYjhhYSJ9ok: [localhost] => {
"msg": "Hello World!"
}
e30=eyJ1dWlkIjogIjVlNDRhMDM0LThkY2ItNDE0Yi04YWMwLTVmNDgxZmEyNjMyNSJ9
PLAY RECAP *********************************************************************************
localhost : ok=2 changed=0 unreachable=0 failed=0 skipped=0 rescued=0 ignored=0

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STEPS TO REPRODUCE

Run ansible-navigator in a Terminal that does not support ANSI control characters like the emacs eshell.

EXPECTED RESULTS

Setting TERM=dumb should ensure that the command just prints clean ASCII without control-characters, as the terminal is "dumb"...

ACTUAL RESULTS

As` you can see above, you get fancy control chars in the output.

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

[olbohlen]

This relates a bit to #1736