[Automation Account Tests] Management script fails to parse job result stream.

[vladimir-shcherbakov]

Description

Report flow:

1. Automation Account runbook job put results into verbose stream:

Write-Verbose 'Resolve-AzError Information'
Write-Verbose '--------------------------------'
Resolve-AzError | Write-Verbose

2. Management script waits for the job completion:

$failedJobs = $jobs | Wait-Job | ForEach-Object {
        $name = $_.Name
        $state = $_.State
        $output = $_ | Receive-Job -Keep
        $jobId = @($output | Where-Object { $_ -like 'JobId:*' } | Select-Object -First 1) -replace 'JobId:','' | Out-String
        $failureCount = @($output | Where-Object { $_ -like '!!!*' } | Measure-Object -Line).Lines
        New-Object PSObject -Property @{Name = $name; State = $state; JobId = $jobId; FailureCount = $failureCount}
}

and fails on $_ | Receive-Job -Keep call with the exception:

Conversion from JSON failed with error: Unexpected character encountered while parsing value: J. Path '', line 0, position 0.
+ CategoryInfo          : CloseError: (:) [Start-AzAutomationRunbook], CmdletInvocationException
+ FullyQualifiedErrorId : Microsoft.Azure.Commands.Automation.Cmdlet.StartAzureAutomationRunbook
+ PSComputerName        : localhost

Conversion from JSON failed with error: Unexpected character encountered while parsing value: J. Path '', line 0, position 0.
+ CategoryInfo          : CloseError: (:) [Start-AzAutomationRunbook], CmdletInvocationException
+ FullyQualifiedErrorId : Microsoft.Azure.Commands.Automation.Cmdlet.StartAzureAutomationRunbook
+ PSComputerName        : localhost

Conversion from JSON failed with error: Unexpected character encountered while parsing value: J. Path '', line 0, position 0.
+ CategoryInfo          : CloseError: (:) [Start-AzAutomationRunbook], CmdletInvocationException
+ FullyQualifiedErrorId : Microsoft.Azure.Commands.Automation.Cmdlet.StartAzureAutomationRunbook
+ PSComputerName        : localhost

Conversion from JSON failed with error: Unexpected character encountered while parsing value: J. Path '', line 0, position 0.
+ CategoryInfo          : CloseError: (:) [Start-AzAutomationRunbook], CmdletInvocationException
+ FullyQualifiedErrorId : Microsoft.Azure.Commands.Automation.Cmdlet.StartAzureAutomationRunbook
+ PSComputerName        : localhost

Conversion from JSON failed with error: Unexpected character encountered while parsing value: J. Path '', line 0, position 0.
+ CategoryInfo          : CloseError: (:) [Start-AzAutomationRunbook], CmdletInvocationException
+ FullyQualifiedErrorId : Microsoft.Azure.Commands.Automation.Cmdlet.StartAzureAutomationRunbook
+ PSComputerName        : localhost

Conversion from JSON failed with error: Unexpected character encountered while parsing value: J. Path '', line 0, position 0.
+ CategoryInfo          : CloseError: (:) [Start-AzAutomationRunbook], CmdletInvocationException
+ FullyQualifiedErrorId : Microsoft.Azure.Commands.Automation.Cmdlet.StartAzureAutomationRunbook
+ PSComputerName        : localhost

Conversion from JSON failed with error: Unexpected character encountered while parsing value: J. Path '', line 0, position 0.
+ CategoryInfo          : CloseError: (:) [Start-AzAutomationRunbook], CmdletInvocationException
+ FullyQualifiedErrorId : Microsoft.Azure.Commands.Automation.Cmdlet.StartAzureAutomationRunbook
+ PSComputerName        : localhost

Cost 2

[lwajswaj]

I think this issue is also fixed with this PR: #8607; different approach but it sounds like a similar scenario to other two issues (#7977 and #8600)

[markcowl]

no longer relevant