Repository: openai/evals
Issue: json.decoder.JSONDecodeError: Expecting value: line 2 column 1 (char 1)
Root cause: Validation Gap

### Describe the bug

I enter the command oaieval gpt-3.5-turbo <myevalname> in my Command Prompt, and the result is an error called "raise JSONDecodeError("Expecting value", s, errr.value) from None. 

I do not know how to fix this bug as I have done everything that README.md and run-evals.md tell me to do. 



C:\Users\<username>>oaieval gpt-3.5-turbo <myevalname>
[2023-04-26 14:54:44,987] [registry.py:249] Loading registry from C:\Users\<username>\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python311\Lib\site-packages\evals\registry\evals
[2023-04-26 14:54:45,049] [registry.py:249] Loading registry from C:\Users\<username>\.evals\evals
[2023-04-26 14:54:45,050] [oaieval.py:110] Run started: 230426215445VTUTXQLE
[2023-04-26 14:54:45,051] [data.py:75] Fetching <myevalname>/<myevalname>.jsonl
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<frozen runpy>", line 198, in _run_module_as_main
  File "<frozen runpy>", line 88, in _run_code
  File "C:\Users\<username>\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python311\Scripts\oaieval.exe\__main__.py", line 7, in <module>
  File "C:\Users\<username>\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python311\Lib\site-packages\evals\cli\oaieval.py", line 164, in main
    run(args)
  File "C:\Users\<username>\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python311\Lib\site-packages\evals\cli\oaieval.py", line 141, in run
    result = eval.run(recorder)
             ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
  File "C:\Users\<username>\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python311\Lib\site-packages\evals\elsuite\basic\match.py", line 52, in run
    samples = self.get_samples()
              ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
  File "C:\Users\<username>\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python311\Lib\site-packages\evals\eval.py", line 164, in get_samples
    return get_jsonl(self.samples_jsonl)
           ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
  File "C:\Users\<username>\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python311\Lib\site-packages\evals\data.py", line 114, in get_jsonl
    return _get_jsonl_file(path)
           ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
  File "C:\Users\<username>\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python311\Lib\site-packages\evals\data.py", line 77, in _get_jsonl_file
    return list(map(json.loads, f.readlines()))
           ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
  File "C:\Users\<username>\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python311\Lib\json\__init__.py", line 346, in loads
    return _default_decoder.decode(s)
           ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
  File "C:\Users\<username>\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python311\Lib\json\decoder.py", line 337, in decode
    obj, end = self.raw_decode(s, idx=_w(s, 0).end())
               ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
  File "C:\Users\<username>\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python311\Lib\json\decoder.py", line 355, in raw_decode
    raise JSONDecodeError("Expecting value", s, err.value) from None
json.decoder.JSONDecodeError: Expecting value: line 2 column 1 (char 1)

### To Reproduce

1. Create and configure files .yaml and .jsonl for your project
2. Register the .yaml file and put the jsonl file in the <myevalname> folder in the data folder
3. Make a ".evals" folder in your C:\Users\<username>
4. create an "evals" folder in ".evals" and create a blank yaml file called <myevalname> in that folder
5. Do commands pip insteall -e. and pip install evals
6. Run command oaieval gpt-3.5-turbo <myevalname>

### Code snippets

_No response_

### OS

Windows 10

### Python version

3.11.1

### Library version

openai-evals v1.0.3

Try looking for empty lines, I ran into that issue.  Also, if you push it to your fork I can take a quick look

> Try looking for empty lines, I ran into that issue. Also, if you push it to your fork I can take a quick look 

@qrdlgit 

Sorry, I am not that familiar with github, how do I push it to my fork? 😅 

Also, which files should I look for empty lines?

Ah, I see, the issue is even more fundamental.   The command you ran above "oaieval gpt-3.5-turbo" is incorrect.  You need to run "oaieval gpt-3.5-turbo <eval_name>" where eval_name is the eval you created.  See https://github.com/openai/evals/blob/main/docs/build-eval.md for more instructions.

I encourage you to lean heavily on GPT4 for technical assistance.  Try pasting everything you don't understand into the prompt box and asking GPT4 to explain it to you in simple terms and giving you step by step instructions.  

Make sure that GPT4 is aware of your objectives, what you understand, and what you don't understand.  Include all these facts in the prompts.

Start by pasting everything in the initial site readme, here https://github.com/openai/evals/blob/main/README.md

If there is a particular term you don't understand, GPT4 can break it down and help a lot there as well.

If you still have issues after working with GPT4, feel free to paste here and I'll try to help you out.







> Ah, I see, the issue is even more fundamental. The command you ran above "oaieval gpt-3.5-turbo" is incorrect. You need to run "oaieval gpt-3.5-turbo <eval_name>" where eval_name is the eval you created. See https://github.com/openai/evals/blob/main/docs/build-eval.md for more instructions.
> 
> I encourage you to lean heavily on GPT4 for technical assistance. Try pasting everything you don't understand into the prompt box and asking GPT4 to explain it to you in simple terms and giving you step by step instructions.
> 
> Make sure that GPT4 is aware of your objectives, what you understand, and what you don't understand. Include all these facts in the prompts.
> 
> Start by pasting everything in the initial site readme, here https://github.com/openai/evals/blob/main/README.md
> 
> If there is a particular term you don't understand, GPT4 can break it down and help a lot there as well.
> 
> If you still have issues after working with GPT4, feel free to paste here and I'll try to help you out.

@qrdlgit 

I ran the command "oaieval gpt-3.5-turbo myevalname" but it still gives me the same error. Which files should I look for empty lines in?

I blindly copy/pasted your comment above into GPT4.

![image](https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/129564070/235333182-045ff7ee-4480-45f3-b6b3-549d13b1293f.png)


Thank you

If the problem you encountered is resolved, please close this issue. 

> If the problem you encountered is resolved, please close this issue.

I ran "oaieval gpt-3.5-turbo myevalname" and I am sadly still getting the error (replacing myevalname with the actual name)

The error should be different.   

As above, you had "[2023-04-26 14:54:45,051] [data.py:75] Fetching /.jsonl" which was because you were missing the eval name.  

Did you try pasting the error results into GPT4?




> The error should be different.
> 
> As above, you had "[2023-04-26 14:54:45,051] [data.py:75] Fetching /.jsonl" which was because you were missing the eval name.
> 
> Did you try pasting the error results into GPT4?



I did, and it told me that there is an issue with my JSONL file and sure enough there was an empty line in the middle of the JSONL file and after I removed that, the error went away. Thank you for your help.

However, I am now getting new errors such as: [2023-05-01 13:53:05,829] [_common.py:105] Backing off openai_chat_completion_create_retrying(...) for 0.4s (openai.error.APIError: Bad gateway. {"error":{"code":502,"message":"Bad gateway.","param":null,"type":"cf_bad_gateway"}} 502 {'error': {'code': 502, 'message': 'Bad gateway.', 'param': None, 'type': 'cf_bad_gateway'}} {'Date': 'Mon, 01 May 2023 20:53:05 GMT', 'Content-Type': 'application/json', 'Content-Length': '84', 'Connection': 'keep-alive', 'X-Frame-Options': 'SAMEORIGIN', 'Referrer-Policy': 'same-origin', 'Cache-Control': 'private, max-age=0, no-store, no-cache, must-revalidate, post-check=0, pre-check=0', 'Expires': 'Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:01 GMT', 'Server': 'cloudflare', 'CF-RAY': '7c0adc5efebf8c59-EWR', 'alt-svc': 'h3=":443"; ma=86400, h3-29=":443"; ma=86400'})
[2023-05-01 13:57:29,425] [record.py:309] Logged 100 rows of events to /tmp/evallogs/230501202729PHCNMKAS_gpt-3.5-turbo_(myevalname).jsonl: insert_time=7.997ms

and 


500 {'error': {'message': 'The server experienced an error while processing your request. Sorry about that! You can retry your request, or contact us through our help center at help.openai.com if the error persists.', 'type': 'server_error', 'param': None, 'code': None}} {'Date': 'Mon, 01 May 2023 21:10:20 GMT', 'Content-Type': 'application/json', 'Content-Length': '292', 'Connection': 'keep-alive', 'access-control-allow-origin': '*', 'openai-model': 'gpt-3.5-turbo-0301', 'openai-organization': 'user-ceqmpafwxlz1bgdbzzpwmoa0', 'openai-processing-ms': '176184', 'openai-version': '2020-10-01', 'strict-transport-security': 'max-age=15724800; includeSubDomains', 'x-ratelimit-limit-requests': '3500', 'x-ratelimit-limit-tokens': '90000', 'x-ratelimit-remaining-requests': '3499', 'x-ratelimit-remaining-tokens': '89943', 'x-ratelimit-reset-requests': '17ms', 'x-ratelimit-reset-tokens': '38ms', 'x-request-id': 'b32aeb71f6dccbfdfbdf73ac23e7f6cb', 'CF-Cache-Status': 'DYNAMIC', 'Server': 'cloudflare', 'CF-RAY': '7c0afe6b780c8cee-EWR', 'alt-svc': 'h3=":443"; ma=86400, h3-29=":443"; ma=86400'})

![image](https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/51756595/235534654-748d53d6-d7d0-49cc-a5bc-9f17e7fe49ff.png)


Not to put too fine a point on it, but given this is an openai repo, you should only post a question here after you've tried to resolve it with GPT4.   After you've done that, you should mention in your question all the things you've tried that GPT4 suggested.  Also, pasting the GPT4 response as well will help others understand what you're asking about.

Here's what I got when I copy/paste your error:

It seems like you've encountered some errors while making requests to the OpenAI API. These errors appear to be related to server issues or temporary connectivity problems. Here are the two error messages you provided:

502 Bad Gateway: This error indicates that the server received an invalid response from an upstream server it accessed while processing your request. It could be a temporary issue.

500 Internal Server Error: This error indicates that the server experienced an issue while processing your request. It could be a temporary problem or a bug in the system.

In both cases, you can try the following steps to resolve the issue:

Retry the request: Sometimes, temporary server or connectivity issues can cause errors. Retrying the request after a short interval may resolve the problem.

Check the API documentation: Ensure that you're using the correct API endpoint, parameters, and authentication method as specified in the OpenAI API documentation.

Contact OpenAI support: If the issue persists, you can reach out to the OpenAI support team through their help center at help.openai.com. Provide the error messages, request details, and any relevant information to help them diagnose the problem.

Remember to also check the rate limits and ensure that you're not exceeding the allowed limits for your API usage.

..

Thinking about it, we should probably avoid pasting in images so future systems can easily train on our work here.



>Thinking about it, we should probably avoid pasting in images so future systems can easily train on our work here. 

I'm a dev and just roaming around looking for some existing work and I see how awesome OpenAI team is just by reading this. Great work guys!!

Closing as stale, please file a new issue if you're still seeing this