Issue with deploying through azure DevOps getting error

[adsouza75]

An unhandled exception occurred during deserialization.
System.NullReferenceException: Object reference not set to an instance of an object.
at PbiTools.Serialization.TabularModelSerializer.TryDeserialize(JObject& database) in X:\pbi-tools\BRANCHES\1.0.0-rc.2\src\PBI-Tools\Serialization\TabularModelSerializer.cs:line 444
at PbiTools.Serialization.PowerBIPartSerializerExtensions.DeserializeSafe[T](IPowerBIPartSerializer`1 serializer, Boolean isOptional) in X:\pbi-tools\BRANCHES\1.0.0-rc.2\src\PBI-Tools\Serialization\IPowerBIPartSerializer.cs:line 41
Generating PBIX file at '%TEMP%/0eb68da0-8210-44f3-9d29-1f0a4819cbe8/Card Management Insights 8.pbix'...

[mthierba]

Your stack trace suggests your running an outdated version of pbi-tools. Could you provide the output of pbi-tools info first?

[adsouza75]

{
"version": "1.0.0-rc.2+20220525",
"edition": "Core",
"build": "1.0.22145.2342",
"pbixProjVersion": "0.12",
"amoVersion": "19.39.2.2",
"toolPath": "/app/pbi-tools/pbi-tools.core",
"locale": {
"system": " (127)",
"ui": " (127)"
},
"settings": {
"PBITOOLS_LogLevel": null,
"PBITOOLS_PbiInstallDir": null,
"PBITOOLS_AppDataDir": null,
"PBITOOLS_Debug": null,
"PBITOOLS_UICulture": null
},
"runtime": {
"platform": "Linux 6.5.0-1018-azure #19~22.04.2-Ubuntu SMP Thu Mar 21 16:45:46 UTC 2024",
"architecture": "X64",
"framework": ".NET 6.0.5"
}
}

[adsouza75]

also I trying to connect to group workspace and it say workspace ID not found , if I use api directly to deploy to that work space it works and here is manifest file that I created

{
"version": "0.14",
"created": "2024-04-18T08:02:22.1654487-04:00",
"deployments": {
"Card Management Insights 8": {
"mode": "dataset",
"source": {
"type": "Folder",
"path": "./Card Management Insights 8"
},
"authentication": {
"type": "ServicePrincipal",
"tenantId": "",
"clientId": "",
"clientSecret": "%PBI_CLIENT_SECRET%"
},
"dataset": {
"replaceParameters": true,
"deployEmbeddedReport": true
},
"parameters": {
"DW_Connection": "%DW_Connection%"
},
"options": {
"pbiBaseUri": "https://api.powerbi.com",
"import": {
"nameConflict": "CreateOrOverwrite",
"skipReport": false,
"overrideReportLabel": true,
"overrideModelLabel": true
}
},
"logging": {},
"environments": {
"Development": {
"workspace": ""
}

  }
}

}
}

[adsouza75]

and also tried with latest tag in container I see same issue

"version": "1.0.0-rc.8",
"edition": "Core",
"build": "1.0.24009.1928",
"pbixProjVersion": "0.14",
"amoVersion": "19.74.2.0",
"toolPath": "/app/pbi-tools/pbi-tools.core",
"locale": {
"system": " (127)",
"ui": " (127)"
},
"settings": {
"PBITOOLS_LogLevel": null,
"PBITOOLS_PbiInstallDir": null,
"PBITOOLS_AppDataDir": null,
"PBITOOLS_Debug": null,
"PBITOOLS_UICulture": null,
"PBITOOLS_EffectiveDate": null,
"PBITOOLS_DefaultModelSerialization": null
},
"runtime": {
"platform": "Linux 6.5.0-1018-azure #19~22.04.2-Ubuntu SMP Thu Mar 21 16:45:46 UTC 2024",
"architecture": "X64",
"framework": ".NET 6.0.26"
}
}

[adsouza75]

able to fix it parameter needed inside option block and had to enable xmla for read/write