Jenkins Job Builder Configuration in Python - python-2.7

Question

While updating the Jobs in Jenkins Job-Builder using jenkins-jobs update I'm getting the below error.
INFO:root:Updating jobs in ['jobs'] ([])
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/bin/jenkins-jobs", line 10, in <module>
sys.exit(main())
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/jenkins_jobs/cmd.py", line 191, in main
execute(options, config)
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/jenkins_jobs/cmd.py", line 372, in execute
n_workers=options.n_workers)
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/jenkins_jobs/builder.py", line 348, in update_jobs
self.load_files(input_fn)
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/jenkins_jobs/builder.py", line 293, in load_files
self.parser.parse(in_file)
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/jenkins_jobs/parser.py", line 128, in parse
self.parse_fp(fp)
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/jenkins_jobs/parser.py", line 105, in parse_fp
cls, dfn = next(iter(item.items()))
AttributeError: 'str' object has no attribute 'items'
Job-Builder Version : 1.6.1
Python Version : 2.7
OS : RHEL 7.1
I've tried this in different machines but with no luck.

Answer 1

The AttributeError: 'str' object has no attribute 'items'error is very common in python, it will be more helpful if you share the code or atlease where the error is appearing.
You are using "Jenkins Job Builder" for configuring jenkins and you are getting error while updating jenkins jobs. The update command is used to deploy the job to jenkins after you have tested the job definition. The update command requires a configuration file.
You should pass that configuration file as it is, not in string format and also the jobs should be in non string format inside configuration file, I mean not in ' OR " single or double quotes.