Botframework-solutions: Deployment script validation error

[Koxzi95]

What project is affected?

botframework-solutions Virtual Assistant

What language is this in?

Typescript

What happens?

When running deployment\scripts\deploy.ps1 the error attached occurs.

bot-error.txt

What are the steps to reproduce this issue?

Built bot from yeoman generator and run the deploy script after sign-in to Azure

What were you expecting to happen?

Azure Deployment completes without error

Can you share any logs, error output, etc.?

deploy_log.txt is empty, error is as attached.

Any screenshots or additional context?

Tested this with the typescript VA deploy and C#

[Batta32]

Hi @Koxzi95,

We reviewed the bot-error.txt file you attached and we found that it was an issue on the way that it's parsing some arguments.

Please, can you provide us the following information:

• A capture of your terminal with the execution log
• Are you using PowerShell? Which version?

[Koxzi95]

Hi there @Batta32. I've attached a PowerShell transscript with app/secret/LUIS key omitted.

deploy-issue-ts.txt

EDIT: with verbose looks the same:
deploy-issue-verbose-ts.txt

It's worth noting that upon running yo botbuilder-assistant I get the below with latest python w/ Windows Build Tools installed.

C:\Users\tomcox\ava-bot-001\sample-assistant\node_modules\dtrace-provider>if not defined npm_config_node_gyp (node "C:\Program Files\nodejs\node_modules\npm\node_modules\npm-lifecycle\node-gyp-bin\\..\..\node_modules\node-gyp\bin\node-gyp.js" rebuild ) else (node "C:\Program Files\nodejs\node_modules\npm\node_modules\node-gyp\bin\node-gyp.js" rebuild ) gyp ERR! configure error gyp ERR! stack Error: Command failed: C:\Users\tomcox\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python37\python.EXE -c import sys; print "%s.%s.%s" % sys.version_info[:3]; gyp ERR! stack File "<string>", line 1 gyp ERR! stack import sys; print "%s.%s.%s" % sys.version_info[:3]; gyp ERR! stack ^ gyp ERR! stack SyntaxError: invalid syntax gyp ERR! stack gyp ERR! stack at ChildProcess.exithandler (child_process.js:294:12) gyp ERR! stack at ChildProcess.emit (events.js:198:13) gyp ERR! stack at maybeClose (internal/child_process.js:982:16) gyp ERR! stack at Process.ChildProcess._handle.onexit (internal/child_process.js:259:5) gyp ERR! System Windows_NT 10.0.17763 gyp ERR! command "C:\\Program Files\\nodejs\\node.exe" "C:\\Program Files\\nodejs\\node_modules\\npm\\node_modules\\node-gyp\\bin\\node-gyp.js" "rebuild" gyp ERR! cwd C:\Users\tomcox\ava-bot-001\sample-assistant\node_modules\dtrace-provider gyp ERR! node -v v10.16.0 gyp ERR! node-gyp -v v3.8.0 gyp ERR! not ok

[Koxzi95]

@Batta32 apologies added verbose in the EDIT. No change in output

[Batta32]

Thanks @Koxzi95,

Don’t worry about that, it's a python transient error.

In the case of the deployment issue, actually we couldn't replicate it.

• Which version of the generator are you using? If you don't have the latest, can you reinstall it and try again?
  > npm uninstall --global generator-botbuilder-assistant
  npm install --global [email protected] --registry https://botbuilder.myget.org/F/aitemplates/npm
• If you try to use deploy.ps1 of C#, does it work or do you have the same issue?
• Is the resource group created in the portal after the deploy fails?
• If you execute the following command replacing the microsoftAppId and microsoftAppPassword with your related values, do you see any malformed JSON from the output?
  > az group deployment validate --resource-group "AVABot001" --template-file "C:/Users/tomcox/ava-bot-001/deployment/resources/template.json" --parameters name="AVABot001" microsoftAppId= microsoftAppPassword=

[Koxzi95]

@Batta32 I was getting the same error with C# as well on the same and a new environment (VM, Windows Server 2019)
I'm installing the generator-botbuilder-assistant by copying the command from the TS instructions.

I've just attempted the deployment with a new environment and I'm getting the same error. That's after installing the generator from the provided command above.
The Azure resources/services do build successfully. Nothing in LUIS/missing config etc.

Upon validation I receive the following:

Result CorrelationId

---

Succeeded 347885b1-b767-42e0-a2b4-aa73854928b0

[Batta32]

Thanks @Koxzi95,

I'm using the latest version (2.0.69) of Azure CLI, the output of the validation command is a _JSON_ which takes the output format of your az settings (by default uses json, but it's configurable).

Then, I executed the validation command using --output table and I could replicate your output format.
I checked that there are many output formats for Azure CLI commands, so I deduce that in your user configuration the output format is in table.
Can you check it executing az configure?

@lauren-mills, should we update the scripts to use the --output json when its needed to avoid this kind of issues?

[Koxzi95]

@Batta32 for the command then should I be running in the JSON config not table?

[Batta32]

Exactly @Koxzi95!, this is due to the script is parsing the output from the validation command to an object using ConvertFrom-Json PowerShell method.

Try updating your user settings using az configure, setting json as output format and execute the deploy.ps1 script again. Check this tutorial

[Koxzi95]

That has worked perfectly! Seems my Azure CLI config was the blocker, deployment has worked past the resources stage so I assume this issue can be closed :) Thanks all!!

[Batta32]

Awesome @Koxzi95!, it was a pleasure to help you.

We will close the issue because you could make it work! Feel free to reopen it!