From 437d5fa86654d8e4914d983194588ab24aadcb30 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Geoffrey Hendrey <geoffrey.hendrey@appdynamics.com>
Date: Sun, 18 Feb 2024 10:42:44 -0800
Subject: [PATCH] handle errors in options better

---
 src/CliCore.ts | 7 ++++++-
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/src/CliCore.ts b/src/CliCore.ts
index 52cb380c..4591b708 100644
--- a/src/CliCore.ts
+++ b/src/CliCore.ts
@@ -65,7 +65,12 @@ export default class CliCore {
         }else {
             tags = tags.split(',').map(s => s.trim()); //tags are provided as JSON array
         }
-        options = JSON.parse(options);
+        try {
+            options = JSON.parse(options);
+        }catch(e){
+            console.error("failed to parse --options json: " + e.message);
+            throw e;
+        }
 
         filepath = filepath?filepath:bareArgs[0];
         oneshot = oneshot===true?oneshot:bareArgs.length > 0;