1041321 - "Error extracting manifest" when icons are missing

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Marketplace Graveyard :: Validation, defect, P3)

Description

[Peter Hultqvist]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/36.0.1985.125 Safari/537.36

Steps to reproduce:

1. I created a package using cordova build firefoxos.
2. Upload the package to marketplace



Actual results:

Got this message
"Error extracting manifest from zip file."

The maniffest.webapp file was there in the correct place.
However there were no icons specified, when I added a 60 icon I got another error message about requiring 128px(which is good).


Expected results:

The error message should not complain about not being able to extract the manifest but rather explain that icons are missing.

Comment 1

[Peter Hultqvist]

Found out that cordova generates a zip starting with a "." folder.
When it is unzipped the files are placed in the current folder but I guess this is what is confusing for the validator.

Comment 2

[Mark Striemer [:mstriemer]]

This should definitely work, thanks for the bug report. I'll look into fixing it.

Comment 3

[Mark Striemer [:mstriemer]]

So this has already been fixed in the cordova-firefox codebase but it could be a few weeks before it can be updated through cordova.

You can avoid using the build command by using `prepare` instead, here's a one-liner to make a "package.zip" file in your app's root directory.

    cordova prepare && pushd platforms/firefoxos/www && zip -r ../../../package.zip . && popd

If you would like to use the `build` command you can follow Rodrigo Silveira's description of how to run cordova-firefox locally, see the "Running it Locally" section from his blog post [1].

[1] http://blog.rodms.com/posts/Contributing-to-Firefox-OS-Cordova-initiative/