Wrong/confusing error message for syntax error in Job spec

[TiraO]

When there is a syntax error in the job spec (eg. a missing colon), running bosh create release results in the error Job spec is missing even though the job spec exists.

[Nopik]

Nice found, I've just got bitten by this bug.

[tushar-dadlani]

Nice find. We ran into the same issue and found this helpful.
+1

[cyrille-leclerc]

+1

[benlaplanche]

+1, for me it was tabs vs spaces for indentation

[poblin-orange]

+1. no idea yet why ..

[robocop-bob]

for me it was: key : , should be just key:
i found it parsing spec file.

irb
require 'yaml'
thing = YAML.load_file('jobs/vault/spec')

[mtekel]

+1, I had a missing :

It should really say syntax error, ideally point to the issue....

[drnic]

I got bit by this today when a spec wasn't valid YAML (although my text editor thought it was) - a value needed "..." quotes around it

[voelzmo]

Fixed in bosh-v225, aka stable-3138

[poblin-orange]

Met this issue again today using bosh create release.
Should the fix be applied also on bosh-cli (using BOSH 1.3068.0)

[voelzmo]

@poblin-orange the fix is applied in bosh CLI >=1.3138.0 so please update

[poblin-orange]

@voelzmo done, thks