[chef] RE: knife diff is failing with a lexical error

[John Keiser < >]

The source of this bug is that knife diff only supports json format for roles/environments, rather than .rb files.  It should not be happening for .erb files or files under cookbooks/ in general.

Which files specifically are you having the issue with?  Does it still happen after you "gem install knife-essentials"?  The problem might go away, since there have been many fixes to this sort of thing (which are coming to a Chef 11.6 near you).

--John

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From: Stephen Corbesero < >
Sent: Friday, July 12, 2013 6:51 AM
To: ' '
Subject: [chef] knife diff is failing with a lexical error

 

I just started trying to use knife diff, and it will (very) often fail with an error like the following.

 

ERROR: Yajl::ParseError: lexical error: invalid char in json text.

                                       # this is very hard coded for a

          (right here) ------^

 

It appears that something is trying to parse a ruby file as if were json.

 

It doesn’t happen for every ruby file.  I have started doing some specific test cases, and it seems to mostly occur with .rb files that I have created, but not all the ones that I have created.  I have also seen it happen on a few .erb files as well.

 

Has anyone else seen this, and, more importantly, is there a fix or work around?

 

 

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Stephen Corbesero, PAC

Synchronoss Technologies, Inc., Bethlehem, PA, USA