887208 - App-Validator and manifest docs unaware of "size" parameter

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Marketplace Graveyard :: Validation, defect)

Description

[Christiane Ruetten [INACTIVE]]

This is from a perfectly working manifest.webapp of a Firefox OS app: 


{
  "version": "0.2",
  "name": "Pomodorino",
  "size": "388000",
...

App-Validator gives a warning about an unknown "size" parameter which indeed is not mentioned in https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/Apps/Manifest . But when installing to a Firefox OS 1.0.1 device or the simulator, the popup triggered by navigator.mozApps.install() reacts to the "size" parameter as expected. If it is missing, it will report "Size: unknown" instead.

Comment 1

[Andrew Williamson [:eviljeff]]

afaik its only valid for packaged apps where the size is known up front and can be included in the mini-manifest.  I'd lean towards it being a bug in FxOS to show it at all for hosted apps.

Comment 2

[Matt Basta [:basta]]

As eviljeff said, the size property is only for minifests, which are automatically generated by the Marketplace. Including a size property in a submission is indeed a validation error.