I updated yesterday [1] and now there are a lot of errors in the logs: Discourse AI: structured output response was not valid JSON, falling back to best-effort parsing (311 bytes) I inspected the HTTP response and it had no issue. Then I tried the text with rails console: ... discourse(prod)> p =…

[image] lilydjwg: and now there are a lot of errors in the logs: That is a warning, not an error. That said, I’m moving that to INFO log level, as people keep getting worried about these :face_exhaling:

[image] Falco: That is a warning, not an error. Well, technically true, but it indicates a bug in the code. The fallback works so no error is raised, but it is better to fix the source instead of moving it to INFO level to cover up, isn’t it? JSON allows line feed charaters as whitespace but…

To illustrate, the following is valid JSON: { "key": "value" } The following is an escaped one, which is invalid and causing the issue: {\u000a "key": "value"\u000a}

Discourse AI : la réponse de sortie structurée n'était pas un JSON valide

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Falco (Falco) Juillet 29, 2026, 3:00 2

Il s’agit d’un avertissement, pas d’une erreur.

Cela dit, je passe ce message au niveau de journalisation INFO, car les gens s’en inquiètent continuellement

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Discourse AI : la réponse de sortie structurée n'était pas un JSON valide

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