An empty profile returns an un-useful error

[clrcrl]

Steps To Reproduce

1. Create a profile that's empty (in profiles.yml):

jaffle_shop: 

2. Ensure your project uses this profile
3. Run any dbt command

Expected behavior

Some sort of helpful error message, like "your profile is empty"

Actual behaviour

Running with dbt=0.16.0
Encountered an error:
'NoneType' object has no attribute 'get'

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System information

The output of dbt --version:
0.16.0

Additional context

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[drewbanin]

Ooh, good catch, thanks @clrcrl! This was actually fixed (maybe inadvertently) in #2290

09:51:26 ~/fishtown/clients/debug $ head dbt_project.yml

name: 'my_project'
version: '1.0'

profile:

09:51:30 ~/fishtown/clients/debug $ dbt run
Running with dbt=0.16.1-a1
Encountered an error while reading the project:
  ERROR: Runtime Error
  dbt cannot run because no profile was specified for this dbt project.
  To specify a profile for this project, add a line like the this to
  your dbt_project.yml file:

  profile: [profile name]

  Here, [profile name] should be replaced with a profile name
  defined in your profiles.yml file. You can find profiles.yml here:

  /Users/drew/.dbt/profiles.yml

Encountered an error:
Runtime Error
  Could not run dbt

It's going to ship in 0.16.1 next week :)

[clrcrl]

Hey @drewbanin, I'm not sure if that's the same issue.

I'm talking about having an empty profile in your profiles.yml, whereas the above is talking about having an empty profile: key in your dbt_project.yml

[drewbanin]

oooh, i understand, thanks for clarifying!

Adding this to the Octavius Catto milestone, should be a quick fix

For the implementer: we should add more validation around profile parsing code, raising a sensible error indicating what went wrong. We should not assume that profiles are well-formed at all in this part of the codebase.

[mshayeb]

I got error when I tried to run: dbt run:

dbt_project.yml

name: 'jaffle_shop'
version: '0.1'
profile: 'my_dbt'
source-paths: ["models"]
analysis-paths: ["analysis"]
test-paths: ["tests"]
data-paths: ["data"]
macro-paths: ["macros"]

target-path: "target"
clean-targets:
- "target"
- "dbt_modules"
- "logs"

models:
jaffle_shop:
materialized: table
staging:
materialized: view
tags: ["staging", "hourly"]

Running with dbt=0.16.1
Encountered an error:
'NoneType' object has no attribute 'get'

[drewbanin]

hey @mshayeb - this is fixed in the next release of dbt, v0.17.0, due out around mid-May:

#2297