Submit command fails with "Error parsing API response"

[toolness]

For context, I submitted my first two iterations via an OS X machine.

I was then at a different computer--an Ubuntu server VM running under Win7--and configured exercism on the VM. I "checked out" (is that the right word for it?) the same test exercise, copied and pasted my latest iteration into bob.rb and made some changes, successfully completed exercism login, and then tried resubmitting with exercism submit bob.rb, which produced the following result:

There was an issue with your submission: Error parsing API response: [json: cannot unmarshal number into Go value of type string]

However, it does seem like the actual third iteration made it onto the website here.

[kytrinyx]

It seems like the submission succeeded, but that the go client was unable to parse the response correctly.

My guess is that this is because yesterday the submission.id changed from a string to a number. I'm updating the API to return the key which is used in the submissions URL rather than the actual id, since that is the value that interests us in the first place.

[kytrinyx]

I'm deploying now. Would you let me know after your next submission if it worked?

[toolness]

Sure, will do! Thanks for looking into it.

[kytrinyx]

@toolness Is this still a problem?

[toolness]

Hey, sorry for the delay in responding... I just submitted an exercise successfully, but I was using the same exercism client executable as I did a month ago when I first submitted this issue. Was I supposed to update it?

[kytrinyx]

The fix in the API should have taken care of it without needing to update the client. That said, there have been a bunch of bugfixes and things done on the CLI, so an update would probably be a good idea.

[kytrinyx]

I'm closing this, but as always feel free to re-open it if you have further trouble!

[estomagordo]

I'm having this problem also. I try to submit a C# exercise (leap) but must be doing something wrong.

As the test file expects there to be a Year.IsLeap function, I have a class called Year.cs that passes the tests (provided the test file uses the same namespace as Year.cs - but how else would I get this to work?)

Anyway, I log on and try submit Year.cs (from various directories) and only get:

(Date and time) errpr åarsomg AÅO response - invalid character '<' looking for beginning of value.

[kytrinyx]

I've got a separate discussion going where it seems like there are quite a few people experiencing errors with submission:

exercism/exercism#1747

This should be working, and it looks like the api is blowing up and returning HTML instead of JSON. I need to dig into this when I get home from work to figure out exactly what is going on.

[estomagordo]

Wow, you're fast :)

Any idea if I might get it to work from another computer and in another language?

[kytrinyx]

It might. Sorry it's taking time to get back to you -- I'm so swamped with support requests at the moment that I haven't had a chance to dig into this yet.

[kytrinyx]

@estomagordo - this got lost in the fray, and I'm only just now getting back to looking through all of the issues. Are you still having problems submitting?

[kytrinyx]

Closing due to inactivity. If you are still experiencing this issue, please reopen this with more information. Thanks!

[flayisflay]

I'm getting hit with this as well. Any fetch in any lang yields:
API response - json: cannot unmarshal string into Go value of type []api.SubmissionInfo

Installed via AUR package

[kytrinyx]

@flayisflay -- what does exercism debug say?

[kytrinyx]

Oh, the AUR package. I don't have access to that, and it's wildly out of date. Let me update the docs to remove that.

The easiest thing is to grab the most recent binary: https://github.com/exercism/cli/releases and stick it in your path.

[flayisflay]

Looks like it was because I hadn't configured the API key yet. I grabbed the github package before the AUR one, actually.

I just had to dig around in the tutorial for the answer.

Thanks for the quick reply.

[kytrinyx]

I thought we had a better error message if you weren't configured. We should double check that.

Glad you got it solved.

[Wuppert]

Hi
Im afraid I have the same error API response.
After exercism fetch java

[Tonkpils]

@Wuppert please open up a new Issue with the specifics of your problem and the output of exercism debug