submission.json isn't correct for field "raw-devices-dmi"

[Taihsiang Ho]

I run desktop sru launcher and noticed the launcher did not send the submission for me automatically. Then I went to try to submit manually. When submitting submission.tar.xz, I was blocked by "400 Client Error: BAD REQUEST". I checked the submission.json of submission.tar.xz by "jq . submission.json", I got

ubuntu@201306-13868:~/study-bad-submit$ jq . submission.json
parse error: Expected value before ',' at line 8520, column 24

I went to have a look of the submission.json, I noticed the bad format:

        }
    ],
    "raw-devices-dmi": ,
    "modprobe-info": [
      {
        "options": "index=-2",
        "module": "bt87x"
      },

Platforms that could reproduce this issue:

Dell Inspiron 7537 Portable (201306-13868), trusty (3.13 kernel)

dpkg -l *plainbox* *checkbox*
Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold
| Status=Not/Inst/Conf-files/Unpacked/halF-conf/Half-inst/trig-aWait/Trig-pend
|/ Err?=(none)/Reinst-required (Status,Err: uppercase=bad)
||/ Name Version Architecture Description
+++-===================-==============-==============-===========================================
ii checkbox-autostart- 0.4+git2018033 all Automatic system testing for desktop system
ii checkbox-gui 0.35+bzr3986+p amd64 QML based interface for system testing base
ii checkbox-ng 1.1.0+git20180 all CheckBoxNG test runner
ii checkbox-ng-service 0.23+bzr4122+p all CheckBox D-Bus service (transitional packag
un checkbox-qt <none> <none> (no description available)
un plainbox <none> <none> (no description available)
ii plainbox-insecure-p 1.1.0+git20180 all policykit policy required to use CheckBoxNG
ii plainbox-provider-c 0.43.0+git2018 amd64 CheckBox provider for PlainBox
ii plainbox-provider-r 0.36.0+git2018 amd64 CheckBox generic resource jobs provider
ii plainbox-provider-s 1.10.0+git2018 all CheckBox SRU jobs provider
un plainbox-secure-pol <none> <none> (no description available)
ii python3-checkbox-ng 1.1.0+git20180 all CheckBoxNG test runner (Python 3 library)
ii python3-checkbox-su 0.37.0+git2018 all collection of Python modules used by PlainB
un python3-plainbox <none> <none> (no description available)

[Taihsiang Ho (tai271828)]

Similar but maybe not the same bug in my opinion https://bugs.launchpad.net/plainbox-provider-checkbox/+bug/1755819

[Taihsiang Ho (tai271828)]

ubuntu@201306-13868:~$ sudo dmidecode -t bios -t system | python3 -m plainbox dev parse dmidecode | jq '[.[0]."_attributes" + {"category": .[0]."category"}, .[1]."_attributes" + {"category": .[1]."category"}]'
error: syntax error, unexpected QQSTRING_START, expecting IDENT
[.[0]."_attributes" + {"category": .[0]."category"}, .[1]."_attributes" + {"category": .[1]."category"}]
      ^
1 compile error
Exception ignored in: <_io.TextIOWrapper name='<stdout>' mode='w' encoding='UTF-8'>
BrokenPipeError: [Errno 32] Broken pipe
ubuntu@201306-13868:~$

ubuntu@201306-13868:~$ sudo dmidecode -t bios -t system | python3 -m plainbox dev parse dmidecode
[
    {
        "_attributes": {
            "bios_address": "0xE0000",
            "bios_bios_revision": "1.4",
            "bios_firmware_revision": "1.4",
            "bios_release_date": "10/04/2016",
            "bios_rom_size": "6656 kB",
            "bios_runtime_size": "128 kB",
            "bios_vendor": "Dell Inc.",
            "bios_version": "A14"
        },
        "category": "BIOS"
    },
    {
        "_attributes": {
            "system_family": "Shark Bay ULT",
            "system_name": "Inspiron 7537",
            "system_sku_number": "Inspiron 7537",
            "system_uuid": "4C4C4544-0000-0010-8000-80C04F000000",
            "system_vendor": "Dell Inc.",
            "system_version": "Not Specified",
            "system_wake_up_type": "Power Switch"
        },
        "category": "SYSTEM"
    }
]
ubuntu@201306-13868:~$

ubuntu@201306-13868:~$ sudo dmidecode -t bios -t system | pastebinit
http://paste.ubuntu.com/p/sNRfhNJQT2/