Ansible failing to run Terraform Plan - python-3.x

Question

I have automated ansible playbook to generate Terraform files required to create AWS resources in a folder. Once the files are generated, ansible tasks runs terraform plan(using below plan code) but it is failing with below error(error)
Ansible Version:
ansible [core 2.11.2]
config file = None
configured module search path = ['/root/.ansible/plugins/modules', '/usr/share/ansible/plugins/modules']
ansible python module location = /usr/local/lib/python3.8/dist-packages/ansible
ansible collection location = /root/.ansible/collections:/usr/share/ansible/collections
executable location = /usr/local/bin/ansible
Terraform Version:
Terraform v0.12.31
plan code:
- name: Create Terraform plan
check_mode: true
community.general.terraform:
project_path: "{{ terraform_dir }}"
plan_file: "{{ terraform_dir }}/tfplan"
state: "planned"
force_init: true
register: plan
tags:
- build
- plan
- never
error:
**fatal: [localhost]: FAILED! => {"changed": false, "module_stderr": "Traceback (most recent call last):
File \"/root/.ansible/tmp/ansible-tmp-1625160772.6764412-713-181137940992596/AnsiballZ_terraform.py\", line 100, in <module>
_ansiballz_main()
File \"/root/.ansible/tmp/ansible-tmp-1625160772.6764412-713-181137940992596/AnsiballZ_terraform.py\", line 92, in _ansiballz_main
invoke_module(zipped_mod, temp_path, ANSIBALLZ_PARAMS)
File \"/root/.ansible/tmp/ansible-tmp-1625160772.6764412-713-181137940992596/AnsiballZ_terraform.py\", line 40, in invoke_module
runpy.run_module(mod_name='ansible_collections.community.general.plugins.modules.terraform', init_globals=dict(_module_fqn='ansible_collections.community.general.plugins.modules.terraform', _modlib_path=modlib_path),
File \"/usr/lib/python3.8/runpy.py\", line 207, in run_module
return _run_module_code(code, init_globals, run_name, mod_spec)
File \"/usr/lib/python3.8/runpy.py\", line 97, in _run_module_code
_run_code(code, mod_globals, init_globals,
File \"/usr/lib/python3.8/runpy.py\", line 87, in _run_code
exec(code, run_globals)
File \"/tmp/ansible_community.general.terraform_payload_xnzkbjkr/ansible_community.general.terraform_payload.zip/ansible_collections/community/general/plugins/modules/terraform.py\", line 497, in <module>
File \"/tmp/ansible_community.general.terraform_payload_xnzkbjkr/ansible_community.general.terraform_payload.zip/ansible_collections/community/general/plugins/modules/terraform.py\", line 393, in main
File \"/tmp/ansible_community.general.terraform_payload_xnzkbjkr/ansible_community.general.terraform_payload.zip/ansible_collections/community/general/plugins/modules/terraform.py\", line 238, in get_version
File \"/usr/lib/python3.8/json/__init__.py\", line 357, in loads
return _default_decoder.decode(s)
File \"/usr/lib/python3.8/json/decoder.py\", line 337, in decode
obj, end = self.raw_decode(s, idx=_w(s, 0).end())
File \"/usr/lib/python3.8/json/decoder.py\", line 355, in raw_decode
raise JSONDecodeError(\"Expecting value\", s, err.value) from None
json.decoder.JSONDecodeError: Expecting value: line 1 column 1 (char 0)
", "module_stdout": "", "msg": "MODULE FAILURE
See stdout/stderr for the exact error", "rc": 1}**
not sure if I missed to install any required modules or if I need to make code changes.
Any idea how to fix the above error?
Please let me know if any further information needed.
Thanks in Advance.

Answer 1

Fixed the above error by changing the ansible-galaxy collection version(ansible-galaxy collection install community.general:1.3.9).
ansible-galaxy versions causing the above error are >1.3.9 as versions greater than 1.3.9 are not compatible with terraform version v0.12.31
Previously I have ansible-galaxy collection version 2.2.0 installed, degrading the version to 1.3.9 fixed my issue.