Merged in hotfix/file-errors (pull request #448)

Hotfix/file errors

* Set up test file

* Fix regex pattern in json.loads

*  bug fix No valid JSON object found in the input string

* bug fixes

* moved try statement to parse fn

* invalid literal for int() with base 10 error fixed

* remove test

* remove excess print statements

* Raise error

* Remove todo

* Remove print statement


Approved-by: Katon Minhas

fieldExtraction/src/utils/string_utils.py

@@ -226,13 +226,15 @@ def primary_string_to_dict(string_dict, filename):
 
 def universal_json_load(string_dict):
     """Matches json dicts and list of dicts - NOT simple lists"""
-    match = re.search(r'\{.*\}|\[\{.*\}\]', string_dict, re.DOTALL)
+    match = re.search(r'\{.*\}|\[\s*?\{.*\}\s*?\]', string_dict, re.DOTALL) # Updated regex
     if match:
         try:
             return json.loads(match.group())
         except json.JSONDecodeError:
             pass
-    raise ValueError("No valid JSON object found in the input string")
+        raise ValueError("No valid JSON object found in the input string")
+    else:
+        return {}
 
 reimbursement_strings = [ # These are for `method='keyword'`
     "%",