Cannot use PluginSearch

[greencopper]

I can install, view, etc, but not search. The problem exist in both Vim and Gvim.

[arjunkc]

I have this issue too, it was working a few days ago, and now it has stopped.

[mmcalistair]

Same here. Worked fine two days ago.

[arjunkc]

If I were to wildly speculate, my guess would be that the github or vimscripts api has changed. The mechanism that vundle uses to run its search must have changed, since the vundle code itself was untouched.

[mmcalistair]

Not sure about that. For me it only stopped working on MacOs, my Linux setup works just fine.

[arjunkc]

Weird, it doesn't work on the my arch-linux setup. I ought to look at the code...

[gmarik]

@greencopper reproduced as well, I'll take a look when I get time…
In mean time can you execute search command second time? It worked for me…

[greencopper]

I have tried it several times, also on several different boxes, I get the same problem on each box every time.

Also getting this error

[Nexion]

Me too

[migore]

I got the same issue, I tried the solution in issue #599 but the problem is still happening.

[noscripter]

@migore, I update the solution and it works, please refer to it.

[migore]

@noscripter Thanks! Manually downloaded the file as suggested and it's working again.

[fatso83]

@noscripter Thanks for the tip in #599. Removing the empty file fixed the problem. From what I can understand, the error is caused by

1. the downloading of the file failed, producing an empty file
2. trying to parse the empty file as valid json

I think that Vundle should handle this case by either simply checking the file size, or catching json parsing errors, and delete the file should they arise.

I'll try to make a fix for it by targetting the two issues mentioned in an upcoming PR. Should lower the noise caused by duplicates issues like this popping up.