Fauxhai.fetch is giving JSON::ParserError: error

[Deepak1100]

    base::default When all attributes are default, on an amazon 2017.09 install packages
     Failure/Error: Fauxhai.fetch(host: 'xxxxx')

     JSON::ParserError:
       416: unexpected token at '-08-23T18:01:08+00:00] INFO: The plugin path /etc/chef/ohai/plugins does not exist. Skipping...
       {
         "dmi": {

         },
         "languages": {
           "perl": {
......
}
'

I think is because of the last single quote.

Installing fauxhai 5.6.0 (was 5.5.0)

[coderanger]

There is no quote in the file https://raw.githubusercontent.com/chefspec/fauxhai/master/lib/fauxhai/platforms/amazon/2017.09.json so I'm not sure where that came from, are you sure that isn't just part of the error display?

[Deepak1100]

@coderanger i think you are right the last single is part of error display.(i have updated the error msg) But I have checked the JSON of ohai properties displayed in error and it is valid JSON.

[coderanger]

It's pretty rare to use Fauxhai directly, and the fetch API even more rare. What's your use case? Is there possibly something wrong with the network such that it's getting back a proxy error page (which would be HTML)?

[Deepak1100]

I have using many node['ec2'] ohai attributes in my recipe which is causing the test to fail. and to mock those ec2 attributes I am fetching them from dev server. Btw this is the first time I am writing chefspec test and so just wanted to know if this is the way to mock ec2 data.

[oscar123mendoza]

I got around this error by simply creating the /etc/chef/ohai/plugins directory and leaving it empty