[chef] Re: Re: $ berks upload keeps failing since yesterday

[Daniel DeLeo < >]

On Wednesday, April 22, 2015 at 10:24 AM, Fabien Delpierre wrote:
> For what it's worth, I actually just had to add a cookbook to my Berksfile, 
> fortunately it comes before "srv01" alphabetically, and $ berks upload 
> uploads that cookbook fine. Of course I still get the failure when it 
> reaches my own cookbook. But that suggests that the issue is with my 
> cookbook, somehow. I just don't know what it could be.
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> On Wed, Apr 22, 2015 at 12:59 PM, Fabien Delpierre 
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> > Hello,
> > I'm working on a custom cookbook; since yesterday, whenever I run $ berks 
> > upload to ship the latest version of the cookbook to my Chef server, 
> > Berkshelf goes through all the cookbook dependencies alphabetically, as 
> > normal, skips all of them since they don't require an update, again as 
> > normal, then it gets to my cookbook (it's called "srv01") and exits 
> > unexpectedly with this output (http://pastebin.com/3GZg4SMA) (Pastebin 
> > link).
>  


Unfortunately, this error from the Chef Server doesn’t say exactly _what_ the 
problematic data is, but the error message:

{"error":["Invalid element in array value of 'templates'.”]}

indicates that in the JSON representation of your cookbook content, one of 
the entries in templates has a value the server considers invalid. If if 
uploads fine with `knife` then this is probably a bug in berks. You can file 
a much more delightful bug report if you can narrow the problem down to a 
specific template file name (e.g., try deleting the templates one-by-one 
until you find out which file name is the problem). Going through that will 
probably give you an idea of how to work around the issue as well.


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Daniel DeLeo