darkoperator / darkoperator/Posh-SSH
empty hosts.json throws ugly error
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Description
I was just horsing around. I zeroed out $HOME\.poshss\hosts.json and got this ugly error.
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17 | $Session = New-SSHSession -ComputerName $target -AcceptKey -Verbose
| ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
| Expecting element 'root' from namespace ''.. Encountered 'None' with name '', namespace ''.
An empty dict {} in the hosts.json doesn't error.
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Start by reproducing the issue with an empty $HOME.poshss\hosts.json and the New-SSHSession command shown in the report. Trace how hosts.json is read and determine the expected handling for an empty file; done means the empty-file case no longer produces the reported ugly parser error.
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- powershell
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- tooling
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- Bug
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