InvalidURL error in az pool create --template

[lmiroslaw]

Unfortunately, az pool create -template ..json does not work with the latest az cli and az batch extensions.

I get
"Error occurred in request., InvalidURL: Failed to parse: https://"dshardbatch.westeurope.batch.azure.com"/pools?api-version=2019-08-01.10.0&timeout=30"

[bgklein]

Looking through the service logs I see two create pool requests failing due to protocol failure for that account. I see this in one of their log traces

04/07/2020 09:26:55.401```
I do not believe that is a valid VM Size. You probably want STANDARD_D64s_v3.

If that is not from the request in question could you share your template,  so I can look into it further? If that was the problem we can probably keep this issue open to improve the error message, as we are probably swallowing the inner details causing our generic 400 error message.

[lmiroslaw]

Sure. Here it is: https://github.com/tojozefi/azurebatch/blob/master/datasharding/datasharding-pool.json

I used the same template with Batch Explorer and it worked, e.g. I have a pool now with STANDARD_D64_v3 VMs.

[bgklein]

Hmmm, I attempted to reproduce this and couldn't. What are you doing to feed in the account-endpoint? An environment variable, feeding in --account-endpoint, or using 'az batch login'. I tried the latter two and both properly had quotes trimmed.

Also what are the results of az --version? Ultimately trying to figure out whats causing those quotes in the url.