Tokenizer Log shows parsing error but still task still completes successfully

[charlieswing]

I am running the Tokenizer task in my Azure DevOps Release Pipeline. The task shows as completing successfully but when I open the log it shows a parsing error due to an Exception and no tokenization ever occurs. Why doesn't this Fail the task, as I would want it to? I would think that this should cause the Tokenizer task to fail, particularly because I have the "Continue on Error" setting turned off. Below is the log of the task. Any help/info would be appreciated.

2020-01-13T17:05:17.1063038Z ============================================================================== 2020-01-13T17:05:17.1063109Z Task : Tokenize with XPath/Regular expressions 2020-01-13T17:05:17.1063173Z Description : Replaces __<variable>__ and/or XPath for XML documents with User Defined variables or configuration json document 2020-01-13T17:05:17.1063398Z Version : 2.1.0 2020-01-13T17:05:17.1063455Z Author : ms-devlabs 2020-01-13T17:05:17.1063494Z Help : [More Information](https://github.com/openalm/Extension-UtilitiesPack) 2020-01-13T17:05:17.1063536Z ============================================================================== 2020-01-13T17:05:20.3573310Z Environment: UAT WebService 01 2020-01-13T17:05:20.8434012Z Error parsing configuration file. Exception message: 2020-01-13T17:05:20.8476557Z System.ArgumentException: Invalid JSON primitive: . 2020-01-13T17:05:20.8476948Z at System.Web.Script.Serialization.JavaScriptObjectDeserializer.DeserializePrimitiveObject() 2020-01-13T17:05:20.8477181Z at System.Web.Script.Serialization.JavaScriptObjectDeserializer.DeserializeInternal(Int32 depth) 2020-01-13T17:05:20.8477474Z at System.Web.Script.Serialization.JavaScriptObjectDeserializer.BasicDeserialize(String input, Int32 depthLimit, JavaScriptSerializer serializer) 2020-01-13T17:05:20.8477685Z at System.Web.Script.Serialization.JavaScriptSerializer.Deserialize(JavaScriptSerializer serializer, String input, Type type, Int32 depthLimit) 2020-01-13T17:05:20.8477899Z at Microsoft.PowerShell.Commands.JsonObject.ConvertFromJson(String input, ErrorRecord& error) 2020-01-13T17:05:20.8478063Z at Microsoft.PowerShell.Commands.ConvertFromJsonCommand.ConvertFromJsonHelper(String input) 2020-01-13T17:05:20.8478247Z at System.Management.Automation.CommandProcessorBase.Complete() 2020-01-13T17:05:21.1004092Z ##[section]Finishing: Tokenize ALWebService_IIS1