Unexpected end of JSON input while parsing near '...:false,"directories":'

[justinhartman]

There is a problem when trying to install buffer-indexof, either directly or as part of a package. I have logged this issue with Grafite as they use your package and I am unable to run npm install on the Grafite project as a result.

When running npm i buffer-indexof here is the error:

$ npm i buffer-indexof
npm ERR! Unexpected end of JSON input while parsing near '...:false,"directories":'

npm ERR! A complete log of this run can be found in:
npm ERR!     /Users/mbp/.npm/_logs/2018-10-01T23_05_16_572Z-debug.log

And here is the debug log file referred to above:

0 info it worked if it ends with ok
1 verbose cli [ '/usr/local/bin/node',
1 verbose cli   '/usr/local/bin/npm',
1 verbose cli   'i',
1 verbose cli   'buffer-indexof' ]
2 info using npm@6.4.1
3 info using node@v8.11.3
4 verbose npm-session e7171489533cd7b6
5 silly install loadCurrentTree
6 silly install readLocalPackageData
7 http fetch GET 304 https://registry.npmjs.org/buffer-indexof 71008ms attempt #3 (from cache)
8 silly fetchPackageMetaData error for buffer-indexof@latest Unexpected end of JSON input while parsing near '...:false,"directories":'
9 timing stage:rollbackFailedOptional Completed in 3ms
10 timing stage:runTopLevelLifecycles Completed in 71509ms
11 verbose stack SyntaxError: Unexpected end of JSON input while parsing near '...:false,"directories":'
11 verbose stack     at JSON.parse (<anonymous>)
11 verbose stack     at parseJson (/usr/local/lib/node_modules/npm/node_modules/json-parse-better-errors/index.js:7:17)
11 verbose stack     at consumeBody.call.then.buffer (/usr/local/lib/node_modules/npm/node_modules/node-fetch-npm/src/body.js:96:50)
11 verbose stack     at <anonymous>
11 verbose stack     at process._tickCallback (internal/process/next_tick.js:188:7)
12 verbose cwd /Volumes/500GB/Mega/Code/GitLab/grafite
13 verbose Darwin 17.7.0
14 verbose argv "/usr/local/bin/node" "/usr/local/bin/npm" "i" "buffer-indexof"
15 verbose node v8.11.3
16 verbose npm  v6.4.1
17 error Unexpected end of JSON input while parsing near '...:false,"directories":'
18 verbose exit [ 1, true ]

My Environment:

• OS: macOS 10.13.6
• Node: v8.11.3
• NPM: 6.4.1
• Darwin: 17.7.0
• Composer: 1.6.5

[justinhartman]

This project looks dead. Are you guys maintaining this project or is it abandonware?

[soldair]

i maintain it =)
node core has had indexOf forever so its much less useful than before but it should just keep working.

[soldair]

7 http fetch GET 304 https://registry.npmjs.org/buffer-indexof 71008ms attempt #3 (from cache)

it looks like the npm registry served a broken json!
whatever their issue was it seems to be resolved now =)

[soldair]

please reopen if you find its still broken.
perhaps run npm cache-clear --force