Could not load creadentials from dhis-google-auth.json

[fosuhene (Fosuhene Andrews)]

I have had several weeks if not months battling with this particular error connecting to google earth engine in dhis2 version 2.35.

I need assistance if someone has been successful implementing it.
I followed the process from the documentation and these are the steps:

1. Registered for google cloud account
2. created service account with api credentials and downloaded the json file
3. authenticated the account.
4. activated google earth engine api
5. uploaded the json file to the home of dhis2 …/config/dhis-google-auth.json
6. Restarted the service and still could not access the google earth service with the console error : Could not load credentials from dhis-google-auth.json

Below are the screens.

[Gassim (AL-Gassim Sharaf Addin)]

Thank you for reaching out @fosuhene ! I am sure the @dhis2-analytics team will be able to support you with this. Was it this tutorial that you followed Accessing map layers from Google Earth Engine - DHIS2 Documentation?

[fosuhene (Fosuhene Andrews)]

Good morning Addin,

I hope you are doing well.

Yes, I have followed this tutorial.

Thank you.

[austin (Austin McGee)]

@fosuhene the line after the warning you circled is the important one here - it appears the JSON file has an error :
“Illegal unquoted character”

I believe this is the \n newlines in your private key – you should replace them with \\n instead.

[fosuhene (Fosuhene Andrews)]

Thank Austin,
I would want to try but the replacement is same as the error to correct, do I have to use forward slash (/n) instead, you mean?

[Gassim (AL-Gassim Sharaf Addin)]

@austin

\\n instead

Sorry @fosuhene I would like to understand, did you try two backward slashes and it didn’t work?

[fosuhene (Fosuhene Andrews)]

No, I have not tried it.

[fosuhene (Fosuhene Andrews)]

I have tried both now, still same error code.

[Gassim (AL-Gassim Sharaf Addin)]

Please see these instructions in this image. I hope it helps. I understand from @austin’s answer is that the issue is with typing in the private key and the image proves it because I think the linting should make the key look purple:

[fosuhene (Fosuhene Andrews)]

Thank you Addin, I am trying it now. I will communicate the outcome.

[austin (Austin McGee)]

Yes, I believe @Gassim is correct - there should be no newline characters within a quoted string literal. If this is the case, you should revert to \n, I believe

[fosuhene (Fosuhene Andrews)]

Morning Community,

There is no error response on the connection, however after restart and accessing the Maps App, attempt to access any of the google earth engine service gives the attached response from the screenshot below.

any idea of what is happening?

Thank you in advance for all the support.

[fosuhene (Fosuhene Andrews)]

Grateful for the support from the community. My google earth engine works now.