1216243 - Make it easier to re-parse add-on manifests after changes are made to the parsing code or JSON schema

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Toolkit :: Add-ons Manager, defect)

Description

[Dave Townsend [:mossop]]

Back when we used SQLITE as the database if the schema changed we would just re-parse all add-ons to get the correct data. This made it easy to add new fields and re-parse everything without having to write custom migration code. Unfortunately with the switch to JSON that capability was lost. This made things difficult when implementing add-on signature checks and is making things difficult in bug 1192432.

We should add a way to force a re-parse of all installed add-ons.

Comment 1

[Kris Maglione [:kmag]]

Just bumping the schema version has been working out well, so I think we're good here.