WebJobBillingData Functions.ProcessQueueMessage failling

[yogaanandk]

Hi

WebJobBillingData is failing with below error

Microsoft.Azure.WebJobs.Host.FunctionInvocationException: Microsoft.Azure.WebJobs.Host.FunctionInvocationException: Exception while executing function: Functions.ProcessQueueMessage ---> System.NullReferenceException: Object reference not set to an instance of an object.
at WebJobBillingData.Functions.ProcessQueueMessage(BillingRequest billingRequest, TextWriter logWriter)
at lambda_method(Closure , Functions , Object[] )
at Microsoft.Azure.WebJobs.Host.Executors.VoidMethodInvoker1.InvokeAsync(TReflected instance, Object[] arguments) at Microsoft.Azure.WebJobs.Host.Executors.FunctionInvoker1.d__8.MoveNext()

Please assist

[jobalbz]

This is what fixed my deployment after a few days of frustrations. All of a sudden it stopped pulling data and got that exact error. The bug was in the JSON serializer under the RecordDataReader.cs". For some reason, all empty tables being pulled became NULL and the code coverts them to string. That's where it failed. Please see 2 lines of code that i've added to make sure there a no NULL values. I'm not a developer so if you can come up with a more elegant way of fixing this issue, please let me know.

private static string SerializeDictionary(IDictionary dictionary)
{
var textBuilder = new StringBuilder();

	using (var textWriter = new StringWriter(textBuilder)) {
		JsonTextWriter writer = new JsonTextWriter(textWriter);
		writer.WriteStartArray();

		foreach (object key in dictionary.Keys) {
			object value = dictionary[key];
			writer.WriteStartObject();
			writer.WritePropertyName("Name");
			writer.WriteValue(key.ToString());
			writer.WritePropertyName("Value");
			//added by jobalbz
			{
				if (value == null)
					value = "";
			}
			writer.WriteValue(value.ToString());
			writer.WriteEndObject();
		}
		writer.WriteEndArray();
	}

	return textBuilder.ToString();
}

[mustafakasap]

Joseph Balbona (@jobalbz) you can make a pull request for this fix and I can commit

[jobalbz]

Mustafa Kasap (@mustafakasap) we can now pull data with that fix. Thanks

[alexchx]

Mustafa Kasap (@mustafakasap) Committed a fix in PR #85