Traceback: ValueError: No JSON object could be decoded

[rpappalax]

running on OSX, python2.7

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "./elodie.py", line 371, in <module>
    main()
  File "/Users/rpappalax/git/elodie/venv/lib/python2.7/site-packages/click/core.py", line 716, in __call__
    return self.main(*args, **kwargs)
  File "/Users/rpappalax/git/elodie/venv/lib/python2.7/site-packages/click/core.py", line 696, in main
    rv = self.invoke(ctx)
  File "/Users/rpappalax/git/elodie/venv/lib/python2.7/site-packages/click/core.py", line 1060, in invoke
    return _process_result(sub_ctx.command.invoke(sub_ctx))
  File "/Users/rpappalax/git/elodie/venv/lib/python2.7/site-packages/click/core.py", line 889, in invoke
    return ctx.invoke(self.callback, **ctx.params)
  File "/Users/rpappalax/git/elodie/venv/lib/python2.7/site-packages/click/core.py", line 534, in invoke
    return callback(*args, **kwargs)
  File "./elodie.py", line 140, in _import
    trash, allow_duplicates)
  File "./elodie.py", line 67, in import_file
    media, allowDuplicate=allow_duplicates, move=False)
  File "/Users/rpappalax/git/elodie/elodie/filesystem.py", line 594, in process_file
    self.set_utime_from_metadata(media.get_metadata(), dest_path)
  File "/Users/rpappalax/git/elodie/elodie/media/base.py", line 93, in get_metadata
    'date_taken': self.get_date_taken(),
  File "/Users/rpappalax/git/elodie/elodie/media/photo.py", line 61, in get_date_taken
    exif = self.get_exiftool_attributes()
  File "/Users/rpappalax/git/elodie/elodie/media/media.py", line 130, in get_exiftool_attributes
    metadata = et.get_metadata(source)
  File "/Users/rpappalax/git/elodie/elodie/external/pyexiftool.py", line 330, in get_metadata
    return self.execute_json(filename)[0]
  File "/Users/rpappalax/git/elodie/elodie/external/pyexiftool.py", line 312, in execute_json
    return json.loads(self.execute(b"-j", *params).decode("utf-8"))
  File "/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/json/__init__.py", line 339, in loads
    return _default_decoder.decode(s)
  File "/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/json/decoder.py", line 364, in decode
    obj, end = self.raw_decode(s, idx=_w(s, 0).end())
  File "/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/json/decoder.py", line 382, in raw_decode
    raise ValueError("No JSON object could be decoded")
ValueError: No JSON object could be decoded
(venv) temp01:elodie rpappalax$ 

[evanjt]

Hi @rpappalax, I'm going to take a guess and say that there's a problem in the EXIF data in the image it was processing. Seems that Exiftool is returning something uninterpretable.

Is there any chance you know which photo this was happening on and checking it with exiftool on the command line? In the past when I've had troubles like this, my image had some non-utf8 characters, but I believe this was fixed in https://github.com/jmathai/elodie/issues/127