1192776 - Provide a more suggestive message when validation fails

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Marketplace Graveyard :: Validation, defect)

Description

[Madalin Cotetiu]

Steps to reproduce:
1. Validate an app containing in manifest requirement for a permission but with "type" : "privileged" missing.

Expected results:
Validation is failing and a suggestive message is displayed stating that the app needs to be privileged in order to pass validation.

Actual results:
The validation is failing, a confusing message is displayed: "App requested unavailable permission".

Notes/Issues:
Verified in FF42(Win7) Issue can be reproduced in mp-dev and mp-stage.
Screencast for this issue: http://screencast.com/t/WsGMIpO9VX

I have used a packaged app with the following manifest:
{
  "fullscreen": "true", 
  "name": "permissionTest", 
  "default_locale": "en", 
  "icons": {
    "32": "/icons/32.png", 
    "256": "/icons/256.png", 
    "16": "/icons/16.png"
  }, 
  "installs_allowed_from": [
    "*"
  ], 
  "description": "testUpdatePackageApp01", 
  "version": "1.0", 
  "launch_path": "/index.html", 
  "developer": {
    "url": "https://mozilla.org", 
    "name": "Mozilla"
  }, 

  "locales": {
    "pt-br": {
      "name": "testPT-BR", 
      "description": "Ousmemy shadtomcon tuourdwig yleri telbatwhim slilstwhoomre acrandmeasent floonlyl pondwioxer halfanan broardbaspled shadtomcon abertirym bipostred exingchar."
    }, 
    "es": {
      "name": "testES", 
      "description": "Itnowing telbatwhim io omcunmane ereaser adealor moundetmak io moundetmak nerthocylfon itnowing dispeent slilstwhoomre io aclivtournban."
    }
  }, 
  "orientation": "landscape",

    "permissions": {
        "contacts": {
            "description": "Required for autocompletion in the share screen",
            "access": "readcreate"
        },
        "moz-external-app": {
            "description": "test permission"
        }
	}
}

Comment 1

[David Durst [:ddurst]]

While it could probably be clearer, the message returned is accurate.