Using deployer lib against vanilla OW has issues pulling runtimes.json

[jthomas]

From @rabbah

 Error: Failed to retrieve runtimes.json from platform host.: Cannot convert undefined or null to object
nim:deployer:runtimes loaded runtimes json: {"api_version":"1.0.0","api_version_path":"v1","build":"2021-06-14T19:39:58-0400","buildno":"0cdfdb3","description":"OpenWhisk API","swagger_paths":{"api-docs":"/api-docs","ui":"/docs"}} +18ms
  nim:base Improving msg: Failed to retrieve runtimes.json from platform host., err: TypeError: Cannot convert undefined or null to object
  nim:base     at Function.values (<anonymous>)
  nim:base     at isValidRuntimesJson (/Users/rabbah/.node/lib/node_modules/nimbella-cli/node_modules/@nimbella/nimbella-deployer/lib/index.js:2727:17)
  nim:base     at load (/Users/rabbah/.node/lib/node_modules/nimbella-cli/node_modules/@nimbella/nimbella-deployer/lib/index.js:2731:8)

oh i see what the potential issue is, /api/v1 from standalone openwhisk != nimbella’s /api/v1
you’d have to query / on standalone / default openwhisk instead
but looks like it is a bug anyway, the code assumes a particular respose and should handle the failure gracefully