Add diagnostics used to take corrective action when releasing buildInfoJson (#16404)

TravisEz13 · adityapatwardhan · web-flow · commit b48614bf9280 · 2021-11-08T14:54:48.000-08:00
Co-authored-by: Aditya Patwardhan &lt;adityap@microsoft.com&gt;
diff --git a/tools/releaseBuild/azureDevOps/templates/release-BuildJson.yml b/tools/releaseBuild/azureDevOps/templates/release-BuildJson.yml
@@ -25,7 +25,11 @@ steps:
     $stableRelease = $metadata.StableRelease.Latest
     $ltsRelease = $metadata.LTSRelease.Latest
 
-    $buildInfo = Get-Content $jsonFile | ConvertFrom-Json
+    Write-Verbose -Verbose "Writing $jsonFile contents:"
+    $buildInfoJsonContent = Get-Content $jsonFile -Encoding UTF8NoBom -Raw
+    Write-Verbose -Verbose $buildInfoJsonContent
+
+    $buildInfo =  $buildInfoJsonContent | ConvertFrom-Json
     $buildInfo.ReleaseDate = $dateTime
 
     $targetFile = "$ENV:PIPELINE_WORKSPACE/$fileName"
