Bug report / looking for workarounds for recent ChatGPT Plugin mechanism Bug for long Strings

As of 8/2023, ChatGPT has a bug / problem that when a plugin request contains a long string such as a multi line text fragment that often leads to ApiSyntaxError: Could not parse API call kwargs as JSON: exception=Expecting ',' delimiter... during the plugin call because the generated JSON for the request is wrong. For instance:

{
  "path": "ui.apps/src/test/content/jcr_root/apps/foo/bar/_cq_dialog/.content.xml",
  "replacements": [
    {
      "search": "</items>\n    </content>",
      "replace": "<generationControl jcr:primaryType=\"nt:unstructured\" sling:resourceType=\"granite/ui/components/coral/foundation/container\" fieldDescription=\"Generation Control\">\n" +
        "            <items jcr:primaryType=\"nt:unstructured\">\n" +
        "                <generationControlButtons jcr:primaryType=\"nt:unstructured\" sling:resourceType=\"granite/ui/components/coral/foundation/container\" 
...

Note that in the replace it uses a + to concatenate Strings in the text fragment, which would be perfectly fine for Javascript, but not JSON. Unfortunately that seriously harms my Developers Workbench plugin.
Now - if OpenAI would just support that kind of plugin request, that would nicely solve this bug. (Is there an official place where to report such ChatGPT bugs?)
In the meantime - has somebody a workaround for that problem? I partially “solved” a similar problem that the ChatGPT plugin mechanism gives a bad error message ApiSyntaxError: Could not parse API call kwargs as JSON: exception=Unterminated string ... to ChatGPT whenever the plugin request is too long by explaining that to ChatGPT in the description_for_model in ai-plugin.json , but that isn’t a particularily nice approach. :slightly_smiling_face: The only thing I can think of is to change the format of the plugin requests from a multi line string to an array of strings, one for each line of the text, but I’m not sure if that’ll degrade performance.

Thanks so much,
Hans-Peter

Hi, yes you can post them to the Bugs Category Bugs - OpenAI Developer Forum

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I was getting a similar error when using my GPT Action, instructing the GPT to use JSON minification helped to compress the message.

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