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I exported a pulumi stack, made some hand edits and tried to import it back, but getting following error

```error: could not deserialize deployment: unexpected end of JSON input```
Any help/docs would be appreciated. I can confirm that the file is valid JSON

it would be very difficult to determine where the issue is, if you’re using the Pulumi service backend I recommend importing an old checkpoint

I am using S3 as a backend, I have a versioned s3 bucket, so I can still restore old state, but I want to make some changes to the state and import that

How can I debug this error ? <@UCWG26BH7>

there isn’t really an easy way, you’ve modified your JSON in a way that means Pulumi doesn’t recognise it anymore
<https://github.com/pulumi/pulumi/blob/931e392619dd4cf9d281af6cb15c5aacf0fdf812/pkg/backend/httpstate/state.go#L251>

it might be valid JSON, but the it’s not valid to Pulumi

For some context, I have created a new component and moved some resources under there

Changes I have made include , adding this new component in JSON, and changing the parent of resources to new one. Any clue where I could have gone wrong ? <@UCWG26BH7>

I am using golang, created new component using
```RegisterComponentResource```

Again, if you’ve manually edited the JSON it’s going to be almost impossible to know

<@UCWG26BH7> Is it possible to do the changes I want to do, with cli ? I can only see rename option, how to add a new resource ?

<@UCWG26BH7> Seems like I’m trying to do something wrong, I exported the correct live stack  and imported it back again without any changes and I’m still getting the same error

<@UCWG26BH7> Thanks, I was able to fix it