Issue #20728 has been reported by Jeff Field. ---------------------------------------- Bug #20728: Invalid metadata.json in module root causes Error 400 https://projects.puppetlabs.com/issues/20728
* Author: Jeff Field * Status: Unreviewed * Priority: Normal * Assignee: * Category: modules * Target version: * Affected Puppet version: 3.1.1 * Keywords: * Branch: ---------------------------------------- The other day I <a href="https://github.com/jefffield/puppet-cdh3";>forked</a> a <a href="https://github.com/sergei-koren/puppet-Cloudera";>module from github</a> that I had used a while back but had not been updated in some time. Within their module is <a href="https://github.com/sergei-koren/puppet-Cloudera/blob/master/modules/ganglia/metadata.json";>this file</a>: <pre><code> { "name": "OSS-OSS", "author": "", "license": "", "version": "1.0.0", "types": [ ], "checksums": "", "source": "" } </code></pre> At some point, for reasons I could not now tell you, I moved that file out of the ganglia module and into the <b>root of my cdh3 module</b>. Little did I know how much time it would waste later. I went about reformatting the module quite a bit, and then finally got to testing the code, and consistently came up against this error: <pre><code> Error: Could not retrieve catalog from remote server: Error 400 on SERVER: Could not find class cdh3 for server01.123xyz.com on node server01.123xyz.com Warning: Not using cache on failed catalog Error: Could not retrieve catalog; skipping run </code></pre> Various stages of madness set in as I tore things apart trying to find the problem. I stack traced, I debugged, I validated my code, I triple checked my naming. So I decided to remove all files but those essential to the function of the module, and it started working. So I put the others back, started removing them one at a time, and discovered it was all caused by this presumably invalid, but structurally correct JSON file. Obviously the error is mine (lesson learned), but shouldn't this fail in such a way it indicates that this is the cause? No where in my searching did I ever encounter that file in any log or debugging output. -- You have received this notification because you have either subscribed to it, or are involved in it. To change your notification preferences, please click here: http://projects.puppetlabs.com/my/account -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Puppet Bugs" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/puppet-bugs?hl=en. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
