invalid json when sending non-json text about slacktee

[Chikashi-Kato]

@Pyker Thanks again, I just created v1.5.2!

[Chikashi-Kato]

Hi marcelo321,

How did you set up the token? Did you setup a slack app for slacktee? Or using a bot user?
Also, could you check if test/test.sh can work?

[marcelo321]

Everything else works just fine. echo abc | slacktee.sh sends the message correctly. I am using a bot for the past months using slacktee.sh

Even if I try to send the line that just failed, like copy-pasting it in a echo, it sends it correctly: echo "string whatever | slacktee.sh

But it fails when I do echo "${var}" | slacktee.sh
with this error slacktee.sh: {"ok":false,"error":"invalid_json"}

[marcelo321]

Oh ok. echo abc | slacktee.sh works, but the test throw me 150 errors. This might be since I updated from a non-supported linux version to last version of ubuntu and everything is failing now haha:

This test posts many messages to your Slack channel?
Are you sure to execute this test? [y/n] :y
-- Setup mode --
/bin/bash: ../slacktee.sh: No such file or directory
-- Buffering (default) --
cat: ./test_data.txt: No such file or directory
/bin/bash: ../slacktee.sh: No such file or directory
-- Non buffering (-n/--no-buffering) --
cat: ./test_data.txt: No such file or directory
/bin/bash: ../slacktee.sh: No such file or directory
-- Non buffering (--no-buffering) --
cat: ./test_data.txt: No such file or directory
/bin/bash: ../slacktee.sh: No such file or directory
-- File upload (-f) --
cat: ./test_data.txt: No such file or directory
/bin/bash: ../slacktee.sh: No such file or directory
-- File upload (--file) --
cat: ./test_data.txt: No such file or directory
/bin/bash: ../slacktee.sh: No such file or directory
-- Title (-t) --
cat: ./test_data.txt: No such file or directory
/bin/bash: ../slacktee.sh: No such file or directory
-- Title (--title) --
cat: ./test_data.txt: No such file or directory
/bin/bash: ../slacktee.sh: No such file or directory
-- Title with non buffering (-t and -n)
cat: ./test_data.txt: No such file or directory
/bin/bash: ../slacktee.sh: No such file or directory
-- Title with file (-t and -f)
cat: ./test_data.txt: No such file or directory
/bin/bash: ../slacktee.sh: No such file or directory
-- Link (-l) --
/bin/bash: ../slacktee.sh: No such file or directory
-- Link (--link) --
/bin/bash: ../slacktee.sh: No such file or directory
-- Link with title (-t and -l) --
/bin/bash: ../slacktee.sh: No such file or directory
-- Channel (-c) --
/bin/bash: ../slacktee.sh: No such file or directory
-- Channel (--channel) --
/bin/bash: ../slacktee.sh: No such file or directory
-- Channel (-c) with # --
/bin/bash: ../slacktee.sh: No such file or directory
-- Channel (-c) with @ (Shouldn't happen anything) --
/bin/bash: ../slacktee.sh: No such file or directory
/bin/bash: ../slacktee.sh: No such file or directory
/bin/bash: ../slacktee.sh: No such file or directory
-- Username (-u) --
/bin/bash: ../slacktee.sh: No such file or directory
-- Username (--username) --
/bin/bash: ../slacktee.sh: No such file or directory
-- Icon (-i) --
/bin/bash: ../slacktee.sh: No such file or directory
-- Icon (--icon) --
/bin/bash: ../slacktee.sh: No such file or directory
-- Icon (-i with URL) --
/bin/bash: ../slacktee.sh: No such file or directory
-- Message formatting (-m) with link_names --
/bin/bash: ../slacktee.sh: No such file or directory
-- Message formatting (--message-formatting) with full --
/bin/bash: ../slacktee.sh: No such file or directory
-- Message formatting (-m) with none --
/bin/bash: ../slacktee.sh: No such file or directory
-- Plain text (-p) --
/bin/bash: ../slacktee.sh: No such file or directory
-- Plain text (--plain-text) --
/bin/bash: ../slacktee.sh: No such file or directory
-- Attachment (-a) with no color --
/bin/bash: ../slacktee.sh: No such file or directory
-- Attachment (--attachment) with 'good' --
/bin/bash: ../slacktee.sh: No such file or directory
-- Attachment (--attachment) with color code --
/bin/bash: ../slacktee.sh: No such file or directory
-- Attachment (-a) with long fiels (-e/--field) --
/bin/bash: ../slacktee.sh: No such file or directory
-- Attachment (-a) with short fiels (-s/--short-field) --
/bin/bash: ../slacktee.sh: No such file or directory
-- Attachment (-a) with long and short fields (-e/-s) --
/bin/bash: ../slacktee.sh: No such file or directory
/bin/bash: ../slacktee.sh: No such file or directory
-- Conditional Coloring (-o) without default color --
/bin/bash: ../slacktee.sh: No such file or directory
-- Conditional Coloring (--cond-color) without default color --
/bin/bash: ../slacktee.sh: No such file or directory
-- Conditional Coloring (-o) with default color --
/bin/bash: ../slacktee.sh: No such file or directory
-- Conditional Coloring (-o) with default color defined by config file
/bin/bash: ../slacktee.sh: No such file or directory
-- Conditional Coloring (-o) - Simple match in buffering mode
cat: ./test_data.txt: No such file or directory
/bin/bash: ../slacktee.sh: No such file or directory
-- Conditional Coloring (-o) - Simple match in no-buffering mode
cat: ./test_data.txt: No such file or directory
/bin/bash: ../slacktee.sh: No such file or directory
-- Conditional Coloring (-o) - Simple match in file mode
cat: ./test_data.txt: No such file or directory
/bin/bash: ../slacktee.sh: No such file or directory
-- Conditional Coloring (-o) - Multiple matches in buffering mode
cat: ./test_data.txt: No such file or directory
/bin/bash: ../slacktee.sh: No such file or directory
-- Conditional Coloring (-o) - Multiple matches in no-buffering mode
cat: ./test_data.txt: No such file or directory
/bin/bash: ../slacktee.sh: No such file or directory
-- Conditional Coloring (-o) - Multiple matches in file mode
cat: ./test_data.txt: No such file or directory
/bin/bash: ../slacktee.sh: No such file or directory
-- Conditional prefix (-d) in buffering mode --
cat: ./test_data.txt: No such file or directory
/bin/bash: ../slacktee.sh: No such file or directory
-- Conditional prefix (--cond-prefix) in buffering mode --
cat: ./test_data.txt: No such file or directory
/bin/bash: ../slacktee.sh: No such file or directory
-- Conditional prefix (-d) in no-buffering mode - Prefix should be added to 2nd line --
cat: ./test_data.txt: No such file or directory
/bin/bash: ../slacktee.sh: No such file or directory
-- Conditional prefix (-d) in file mode --
cat: ./test_data.txt: No such file or directory
/bin/bash: ../slacktee.sh: No such file or directory
-- Conditional prefix (-d) with attachment --
cat: ./test_data.txt: No such file or directory
/bin/bash: ../slacktee.sh: No such file or directory
-- Check exit code : Success 0 --
/bin/bash: ../slacktee.sh: No such file or directory
127
-- Check exit code : Failure 1 --
/bin/bash: ../slacktee.sh: No such file or directory
127
/bin/bash: ../slacktee.sh: No such file or directory
/bin/bash: ../slacktee.sh: No such file or directory
/bin/bash: ../slacktee.sh: No such file or directory
-- Suppress the standard output (-q) --
cat: ./test_data.txt: No such file or directory
/bin/bash: ../slacktee.sh: No such file or directory
-- Suppress the standard output (--no-output) --
cat: ./test_data.txt: No such file or directory
/bin/bash: ../slacktee.sh: No such file or directory
/bin/bash: ../slacktee.sh: No such file or directory
/bin/bash: ../slacktee.sh: No such file or directory
/bin/bash: ../slacktee.sh: No such file or directory
/bin/bash: ../slacktee.sh: No such file or directory
/bin/bash: ../slacktee.sh: No such file or directory
/bin/bash: ../slacktee.sh: No such file or directory
/bin/bash: ../slacktee.sh: No such file or directory
/bin/bash: ../slacktee.sh: No such file or directory
/bin/bash: ../slacktee.sh: No such file or directory
/bin/bash: ../slacktee.sh: No such file or directory
/bin/bash: ../slacktee.sh: No such file or directory
Test is done!
root@localhost:~/slacktee# which slacktee.sh 
/usr/local/bin/slacktee.sh
root@localhost:~/slacktee# echo abc | slacktee.sh 
abc

[Chikashi-Kato]

Ah sorry, the test needs to be executed in test directory. ;p

I'm glad to hear slacktee.sh worked with echo. So it sounds like there are some special characters in your file/${var} that slacktee cannot handle. Is it possible to scrub sensitive data from your file/${var} and share it with me?

[marcelo321]

so I am redirecting the output of a tool to a file tool > file.

If I do cat file | slacktee.sh it throws me slacktee.sh: {"ok":false,"error":"invalid_json"}.

If I do cat file, then manually copy the output of file to file2.

and then try cat file2 | slacktee.sh I get no errors..

If I do cat file it shows them without empty lines, but doing nano file shows the file as:

line1

line2

line3

maybe newlines or something like that?

[marcelo321]

Ok so I edited it with vim this time, and apparently there was ^M at the start of every line, removing that allowed me to send the message sucesfully? with nano I couldn't see that

[Chikashi-Kato]

According to this slack overflow thread, ^M is the representation of carriage return in Vim.
That might mess up the json structure of the request. Very interesting.

[marcelo321]

I am fixing it by adding | tr -d $'\r'| before slacktee.sh

[Chikashi-Kato]

Sounds great! I'm also adding the logic filtering it up to slacktee.sh.

[Chikashi-Kato]

This issue has been fixed by v1.5.1

[Pyker]

Not sure what happened there, but the mentioned PR was never merged. The only difference between 1.5.0 and 1.5.1 is the README

[Chikashi-Kato]

@Pyker Thank you so much for pointing it out! My bad, I forgot to merge the PR ;( Let me fix it now!

[Pyker]

You're very welcome! Thanks for the fix.