Job returned no object, Vector smash

[JamieMagee]

I'm having issues creating a new AU package for jetty. These are my chocolatey/au scripts and this is the relevant output from my Appveyor build.

I'm struggling a little bit to see what the error is, as it works locally, but not on Appveyor, and the error message is a little bit cryptic.

[majkinetor]

Try without UBP param to Invoke-WebRequest or use some other way to download file in this case.

[JamieMagee]

I tried without -UseBasicParsing, and I got the same error message. I tried with System.Net.Webclient, and I get the error message

Cannot bind argument to parameter 'Path' because it is null. (3.20s)

Is there anything obvious that's wrong with my package, or update script?

[majkinetor]

You cant use links without iwr.

Test this locally, you must change the parsing with web client to use text searching instead.

Solo update.ps1 will also show this err

[JamieMagee]

Okay, I've updated it to parse the HTML text correctly, but now I'm back to the original error message

Job returned no object, Vector smash ?

[AdmiringWorm]

@JamieMagee looking at the logs you have as artifacts on appveyor, it seems like the failure happens during the automated checksum grabbing.

I would suggest testing to calculate the hash manually instead (well semi-manually).

Change your update.ps1 script to the following (I'm using the version you used iwr)

import-module au

$releases = 'https://www.eclipse.org/jetty/download.html'

function global:au_BeforeUpdate {
  $Latest.ChecksumType32 = 'sha256' # You can change this to whatever you want
  $Latest.Checksum32 = Get-RemoteChecksum -Url $Latest.URL32 -Algorithm $Latest.ChecksumType32
}

function global:au_SearchReplace {
  @{
    ".\tools\chocolateyInstall.ps1" = @{
      "(?i)(^\s*url\s*=\s*)('.*')"      = "`$1'$($Latest.URL32)'"
      "(?i)(^\s*checksum\s*=\s*)('.*')" = "`$1'$($Latest.Checksum32)'"
    }
  }
}

function global:au_GetLatest {
  $download_page = Invoke-WebRequest -Uri $releases -UseBasicParsing

  $url = $download_page.links | Where-Object href -match '^.*.zip$' | ForEach-Object href | Select-Object -First 1
  $zip = ((Split-Path $url -Leaf) -split "-")[2]
  $version = $zip.Substring(0, $zip.Length - 4).Replace('v', '')

  @{
    URL32   = $url
    Version = $version
  }
}

update -ChecksumFor none # Remember to change this to 'none'

[majkinetor]

If that doesn't work, you really shouldn't use COM objects but just parse the text for URL :) There are few examples out there I can dig up if you need some help with that.

[JamieMagee]

@AdmiringWorm Calculating the hash manually works. I'm not sure what the root cause is, but if it works...

@majkinetor & @AdmiringWorm thank you for all your help :)

[AdmiringWorm]

@JamieMagee I believe the root of the cause is the installation of the environment variable in the install script (I'm not 100% sure about that though).

[AdmiringWorm]

Anyways, glad you managed to get it working though