If you're using -config-dir an empty .json file in there is bad news.

[darron]

I remember finding this a long time ago but I forgot to register it as a bug. Was talking with @slackpad last week and remembered.

I ran into it when a service that was writing config files failed and wrote a blank file into the folder - Consul then fails to start up - tries to parse and craps out.

Example output here:

https://gist.github.com/darron/7275837c7734041c5a4a

Not sure if it's something y'all can fix - guard against - but if it's possible that would likely be pretty awesome.

Thanks for the great software!

[MrMMorris]

This is kind of related to #1221 as well. Empty files causing issues.

[slackpad]

Fixed in #1703.

@MrMMorris I think #1221 is a different issue where we are truncating on the write side.

[darron]

Thanks for fixing this @slackpad and @alistanis - appreciate that!

[alistanis]

No problem @darron! Thanks for merging it @slackpad!