MarkEdmondson1234 / googleAuthR

Google API Client Library for R. Easy authentication and help to build Google API R libraries with OAuth2. Shiny compatible.
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Lexical Error: Invalid Char in JSON Text (only on VM or Docker) #209

Closed mloehr09 closed 3 years ago

mloehr09 commented 3 years ago

What goes wrong

Hi Mark,

I use the most recent version of your package and since two weeks I get the error message "Error: lexical error: invalid char in json text." when I use a cronjob to run the script on a VM in the google cloud and also when I try to run it on Docker. When I run it "manually" everything works fine

Here you can find the first few rows of my script:

`library(googleAuthR) library(googleAnalyticsR) library(googlesheets4) library(googledrive) library(tidyverse)

options(googleAuthR.verbose=2)

sessionInfo()

gar_auth_service("gcs_key.json")`

and here you can find the message in the logfile:

`ℹ 2021-06-13 06:00:02 > No consent file found

Attaching package: ‘googledrive’

The following objects are masked from ‘package:googlesheets4’:

request_generate, request_make

── Attaching packages ─────────────────────────────────────── tidyverse 1.3.0 ── ✔ ggplot2 3.3.3 ✔ purrr 0.3.4 ✔ tibble 3.1.0 ✔ dplyr 1.0.5 ✔ tidyr 1.1.3 ✔ stringr 1.4.0 ✔ readr 1.4.0 ✔ forcats 0.5.1 ── Conflicts ────────────────────────────────────────── tidyverse_conflicts() ── ✖ dplyr::filter() masks stats::filter() ✖ dplyr::lag() masks stats::lag() R version 4.0.5 (2021-03-31) Platform: x86_64-pc-linux-gnu (64-bit) Running under: Ubuntu 20.04.2 LTS

Matrix products: default BLAS/LAPACK: /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/openblas-pthread/libopenblasp-r0.3.8.so

locale: [1] LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 LC_NUMERIC=C
[3] LC_TIME=en_US.UTF-8 LC_COLLATE=en_US.UTF-8
[5] LC_MONETARY=en_US.UTF-8 LC_MESSAGES=C
[7] LC_PAPER=en_US.UTF-8 LC_NAME=C
[9] LC_ADDRESS=C LC_TELEPHONE=C
[11] LC_MEASUREMENT=en_US.UTF-8 LC_IDENTIFICATION=C

attached base packages: [1] stats graphics grDevices utils datasets methods base

other attached packages: [1] forcats_0.5.1 stringr_1.4.0 dplyr_1.0.5
[4] purrr_0.3.4 readr_1.4.0 tidyr_1.1.3
[7] tibble_3.1.0 ggplot2_3.3.3 tidyverse_1.3.0
[10] googledrive_1.0.1 googlesheets4_0.3.0 googleAnalyticsR_1.0.0 [13] googleAuthR_1.4.0

loaded via a namespace (and not attached): [1] tidyselect_1.1.0 haven_2.4.0
[3] gargle_1.1.0 colorspace_2.0-0
[5] vctrs_0.3.7 generics_0.1.0
[7] usethis_2.0.1 utf8_1.2.1
[9] rlang_0.4.10 pillar_1.6.0
[11] glue_1.4.2 withr_2.4.1
[13] DBI_1.1.1 rappdirs_0.3.3
[15] dbplyr_2.1.1 modelr_0.1.8
[17] readxl_1.3.1 lifecycle_1.0.0
[19] munsell_0.5.0 gtable_0.3.0
[21] cellranger_1.1.0 rvest_1.0.0
[23] measurementProtocol_0.1.0 memoise_2.0.0
[25] fastmap_1.1.0 ps_1.6.0
[27] fansi_0.4.2 broom_0.7.6
[29] Rcpp_1.0.6 backports_1.2.1
[31] scales_1.1.1 cachem_1.0.4
[33] jsonlite_1.7.2 fs_1.5.0
[35] hms_1.0.0 digest_0.6.27
[37] stringi_1.5.3 grid_4.0.5
[39] cli_2.4.0 tools_4.0.5
[41] magrittr_2.0.1 crayon_1.4.1
[43] whisker_0.4 pkgconfig_2.0.3
[45] ellipsis_0.3.1 xml2_1.3.2
[47] reprex_2.0.0 lubridate_1.7.10
[49] assertthat_0.2.1 httr_1.4.2
[51] rstudioapi_0.13 R6_2.5.0
[53] compiler_4.0.5
Error: lexical error: invalid char in json text. gcs_key.json (right here) ------^ Execution halted`

gcs_key.json is safed as a json file.

Unfortunately I have no idea where to start troubleshooting and would greatly appreciate your help.

Kind regards, Michael

MarkEdmondson1234 commented 3 years ago

Strange if it was working before, but the error suggests the JSON file does not exist? Try adding a cat(jsonlite::fromJSON("gcs_key.json")) to see if you get any output. I suspect the path to the file is incorrect.

It is for these kind of issues I recommend using the environment arguments for authentication, since they encourage absolute file paths.

mloehr09 commented 3 years ago

Thank you for your quick feedback.

I found the reason why it didn't work. The script which creates the cron job was in the subfolder with the other scripts and not in the home folder of the VM.

Your suggestion to add cat(jsonlite::fromJSON("gcs_key.json")) gave me the idea that this might be the reason. Many thanks and sorry for bothering you with this stuff though it had nothing to do with your package