681391 - Could use a friendlier error for invalid app manifests

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(addons.mozilla.org Graveyard :: Admin/Editor Tools, defect, P5)

Description

[Wil Clouser [:clouserw]]

When I try to upload this manifest:
    http://www.harmmade.com/vectorracer/manifest.webapp

I get this error:
    Could not parse webapp manifest file.

Not sure how easy it would be to get a friendlier message, but a line number would be nice

Comment 1

[Jeff Balogh (:jbalogh)]

Oh, that's really the best we can do. That URL returns invalid JSON.

HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Date: Tue, 23 Aug 2011 18:00:01 GMT
Server: Apache/2
Last-Modified: Tue, 01 Mar 2011 22:44:50 GMT
Etag: "5808b7f-1ed-49d738b41fc80"
Accept-Ranges: bytes
Content-Length: 493
Vary: Accept-Encoding,User-Agent
Connection: close
Content-Type: application/x-web-app-manifest+json

{
	"name": "Vector Racer",
	"description": "Vector Racer is a turn-based racing game, which simulates a car race on a squared sheet of paper. You move from one grid point to another and have to try to get to the finish in the least amount of turns.",
	"launch_path": "/vectorracer/",
	"developer": {
		"name": "Harm Boschloo",
		"url": "http://www.harmboschloo.com/"
	},
	"icons": {
		"128": "/vectorracer/images/vectorracer_icon_128.png"
	},
	"installs_allowed_from": [ "*" ]
}