938553 - Valid `url` pattern in WebActivity is marked invalid

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 936842

(Marketplace Graveyard :: Validation, defect)

Description

[:Harald Kirschner :digitarald]

Delicious added the activity just as the homescreen app: https://github.com/mozilla-b2g/gaia/blob/master/apps/homescreen/manifest.webapp#L45

Validation result errors with an incorrect URL pattern: https://marketplace.firefox.com/developers/upload/30c5a32bdac2479c86cd34708d6b300a

Running validator automatically against gaia's app manifests could help to prevent this maybe?

Comment 1

[Matt Basta [:basta]]

> Running validator automatically against gaia's app manifests could help to prevent this maybe?

The "filters" property was added well after the web app validator was built, and platform folks have a nasty habit of not documenting these things (the docs appeared eight months after the validator implemented web activities[1][2]) and not telling us when new stuff is added or when things change.

It would be better if the Gaia/B2G teams simply told us when new stuff was happening and provided accurate docs at that time.

[1] https://github.com/mozilla/app-validator/commit/6e508c23cec77752c4560a035b13c43d0a8e3576
[2] https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/WebAPI/Web_Activities$revision/389659

Comment 2

[:Harald Kirschner :digitarald]

Any update on the manifest issue in the bug description?

> It would be better if the Gaia/B2G teams simply told us when new stuff was happening and provided accurate docs at that time.

If that flow doesn't work, maybe automated errors from the validator get it working?