1052803 - jpm built extensions are not displaying inline preferences

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Add-on SDK Graveyard :: General, defect)

Description

[Wes Kocher (:KWierso) (Not reading bugmail; email directly if needed)]

Attachment: @testoptions.xpi

Splitting this part off of bug 1038003, as that also covers Android's in-line options, even with the cfx tool...


I'm trying to transition one of my extensions from cfx to jpm, but I noticed that the extension's in-line preferences aren't being displayed in the Add-on Manager. I don't even see the "Options" button for the extension's AOM entry.

I'm using the current tip of jpm's master branch, against today's Windows Nightly build. I haven't tested on OSX or Linux, so I don't know if this is platform specific or not.

Attached is a really simplified extension that reproduces the issue.

The extension's package.json contents are as follows:

{
  "title": "Test Options",
  "name": "testoptions",
  "version": "0.0.0",
  "description": "Test In-Line Options",
  "main": "index.js",
  "author": "KWierso",
  "engines": {
    "firefox": ">=33.0a1"
  },
  "license": "MIT",
  "preferences": [
      {
        "name": "boolOptions",
        "title": "Test boolean options",
        "type": "bool",
        "value": true
      }
  ]
}

Comment 1

[Wes Kocher (:KWierso) (Not reading bugmail; email directly if needed)]

The preferences do seem to exist in about:config, so it appears to be creating the preferences, just not showing them to the addon manager.

Comment 2

[Erik Vold [:erikvold] (please needinfo? me)]

There is nothing that we should do on the sdk side for this, I have a patch for jpm here https://github.com/mozilla/jpm/pull/155

Comment 3

[Erik Vold [:erikvold] (please needinfo? me)]

Resolving this in https://github.com/mozilla/jpm/pull/155

Comment 4

[Erik Vold [:erikvold] (please needinfo? me)]

This should work now, as of https://github.com/erikvold/jpm/commit/74d6c6c9dfaad4b3dff3951ad4b171765d3c1747