gcloud ai-platform prediction from standard JSON file ERROR: gcloud crashed (AttributeError): 'NoneType' object has no attribute 'framework'

Question

I am trying to run an ML prediction request on a JSON file records.json.

!gcloud ai-platform predict --model housing_prices --json-instances records.json

I am getting the following error.

Using endpoint [https://ml.googleapis.com/]
ERROR: gcloud crashed (AttributeError): 'NoneType' object has no attribute 'framework'

All libraries are imported.

import pandas as pd
import tensorflow as tf

I am following a qwiklabs lab 'Predict Housing Prices with Tensorflow and AI Platform'. All commands are in Jupyter notebook on GCP using tensorflow framework. I am missing something. Any help is appreciated.

Answer 1

I managed to resolve the issue. :) Thanks @john-hanley for pointing me to check what I might have missed.

Resolution:

• ssh into the VM (although managed by GCP) I updated the gcloud components
• $ gcloud components update
• My prediction command !gcloud ai-platform predict --model housing_prices --json-instances records.json
• Threw the output as expected.

Using endpoint [https://ml.googleapis.com/]
PREDICTIONS
[24958.638671875]
[19435.654296875]