Cant extract Pnp Provisioning template from Project Management site template

[nav67]

We are trying to extract the provisioning template from a site with Project Management template applied. We are using Connect-PnPOnline to connect to a site I am able to connect to the site but when trying to export the provisioning template using: Get-PnpProvisioningTemplate -out "template.xml" we are receiving the following error. This does not occur on sites with no project management template applied

Script failing when trying to run command with below error Get-PnPSiteTemplate -Out "PnP-Provisioning-File.xml" PS C:\Windows\system32] Get-PnPSiteTemplate -Out "PnP-Provisioning-File.xml" Get-PnPSiteTemplate : The JSON value could not be converted to System.Int32. Path: $.position.sectionIndex | LineNumber: 0 | BytePositionInLine: 107. At line:1 char:1 + Get-PnPSiteTemplate -Out "PnP-Provisioning-File.xml"

[AlyaKoni]

Same issue in C# .Net 6 with PnP.Framework 1.10.0: The JSON value could not be converted to System.Int32. Path: $.position.sectionIndex | LineNumber: 0 | BytePositionInLine: 107.

ProvisioningTemplateCreationInformation ptci = new ProvisioningTemplateCreationInformation(srcContext.Web); ptci.IncludeAllClientSidePages = true; ptci.IncludeSearchConfiguration = false; ptci.IncludeAllTermGroups = false; ptci.IncludeContentTypesFromSyndication = false; ptci.IncludeNativePublishingFiles = false; ptci.IncludeSiteCollectionTermGroup = false; ptci.IncludeHiddenLists = false; ptci.IncludeSiteGroups = false; ptci.IncludeTermGroupsSecurity = false; ptci.ProgressDelegate = delegate (String message, Int32 progress, Int32 total) { logger.LogDebug("{0:00}/{1:00} - {2}", progress, total, message); }; ProvisioningTemplate template = srcContext.Web.GetProvisioningTemplate(ptci);

[AlyaKoni]

It's working, if I use only following handlers:
ptci.HandlersToProcess = Handlers.None; ptci.HandlersToProcess ^= Handlers.Lists; ptci.HandlersToProcess ^= Handlers.Fields; ptci.HandlersToProcess ^= Handlers.ContentTypes;

[AlyaKoni]

The problematic handler which generates this json error is: PageContents

[nav67]

you mean this one ptci.IncludeAllClientSidePages = true? If you exclude Pages rest of content extracts fine?

[AlyaKoni]

This should work:
Get-PnPSiteTemplate -ExcludeHandlers PageContents

[haavardmeling]

I had the same problem. In my case it was related to a template I had created under "Site Pages\Templates". It wasn't something I needed so deleted the file and now it works. Didn't investigate any further. Could probably turn on some PnPTracelog to find the exact file causing the problem.

[stokuri]

I had the same problem. The issue is in pnpcore while Deserializing the controlDataJson.

The sample json for which the failure occurs in my case:

controlDataJson: {"controlType":4,"id":"00000000-0000-0000-0000-100000000005","position":{"zoneIndex":1.0,"sectionIndex":2.0,"controlIndex":2.0,"sectionFactor":6,"layoutIndex":1},"emphasis":{}}

controlDataJson: {"controlType":3,"id":"00000000-0000-0000-0000-100000000006","position":{"zoneIndex":1.0,"sectionIndex":2.0,"controlIndex":3.0,"sectionFactor":6,"layoutIndex":1},"webPartId":"8654b779-4886-46d4-8ffb-b5ed960ee986","emphasis":{},"addedFromPersistedData":true}

The parser is failing to read "sectionIndex":2.0 property which is defend as int in CanvasPosition.cs but the actual value in JSON is float

[AlyaKoni]

Looks like a behavioral change in the Json Library:
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/17745866/how-can-i-restore-the-int-deserialization-behavior-after-upgrading-json-net

[stokuri]

This change worked for me -> stokuri/pnpcore@0954abc

Submitted PR -> pnp/pnpcore#1058