Amplify-console: Errors in amplify.yaml are incorrectly reported as a connection error to your app

[cjsedwards]

If there is a YAML syntax error in amplify.yaml, you get the following:

There was an issue connecting to your repo provider, click "Re-authenticate app" in General Settings, and then try your build again.

This is misleading, and let me down 30 minutes of debugging my connection to github before I realized this error had nothing to do with what the actual problem was.

[kahdojay]

@cjsedwards thanks for reporting. Can you share your appid and region so we can take a closer look?

[cjsedwards]

https://us-west-2.console.aws.amazon.com/amplify/home?region=us-west-2#/d2bp2r8zohs9b/master/236

[cjsedwards]

FYI - I've resolved my underlying issue, but the incorrect error message is still a bug IMO

[Joycehao19]

Hi @cjsedwards, where did you get this message? in build stage?

[cjsedwards]

Yes

[Joycehao19]

Would you mind tell me which syntax error do you have? I tried to add something on my amplify.yaml, but I didn't get the same error message

[cjsedwards]

Here is the syntax I had in my file:

      commands:
        - 'VUE_APP_WEB_PUSH_PUBLIC_KEY=$WEB_PUSH_PUBLIC_KEY' >> .env
        - yarn run build            - yarn run build

[cjsedwards]

2020-06-01T15:35:33.969Z [ERROR]: !!! YAMLException: bad indentation of a sequence entry at line 15, column 62:
                                  ... UBLIC_KEY=$WEB_PUSH_PUBLIC_KEY' >> .env

[Joycehao19]

I reproduced the issue. Added it to team backlog. Thank you for reporting the issue!

[Athena96]

Hello all, thank you for your patience. We have deployed a fix for this, so it should no longer be an issue. Feel free to re-open this ticket if you continue to face this or related issues. Thank you!

[rgevrek]

Hi,

I have also the issue

There was an issue connecting to your repo provider, click "Re-authenticate app" in General Settings, and then try your build again.

in Amplify. I used CodeCommit as git provider.
The APP ARN is arn:aws:amplify:eu-central-1:356761004113:apps/d34faikz7imb88

[hobyfrezk]

same here, after try the "Re-authenticate app" button, the issue still here.

[greenled]

same issue here

[SJI-ParthaSarathi]

Same issue is still there!

[clovus]

Same issue! About to give up on Amplify and go back to Netlify. Never had an issue like this.

[SJI-ParthaSarathi]

Update:
fixed the issue https://docs.aws.amazon.com/amplify/latest/userguide/how-to-service-role-amplify-console.html
https://github.com/aws-amplify/amplify-console/issues/572