958739 - JavaScript Error: "SyntaxError: JSON.parse: unexpected end of data at line 1 column 1 of the JSON data" {file: "app://twittershare.gaiamobile.org/js/twittershare.js" line: 26}

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Firefox OS Graveyard :: Gaia, defect)

Description

[Gary Kwong [:gkw] [:nth10sd] (NOT official MoCo now)]

Download:

http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/b2g/nightly/2014-01-10-00-40-09-mozilla-aurora/b2g-28.0a2.multi.mac64.dmg

Extract it and run using:

B2G.app/Contents/MacOS/b2g-bin -profile B2G.app/Contents/MacOS/gaia/profile/

Click Next all the way till Done until the FTU experience is over, then Skip the tutorial.

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Launch the "Twitter share" app. You will hit:

JavaScript error: app://twittershare.gaiamobile.org/js/twittershare.js, line 26: JSON.parse: unexpected end of data

Comment 1

[Gary Kwong [:gkw] [:nth10sd] (NOT official MoCo now)]

This affects B2G Desktop 1.3 mozilla-aurora and 1.4 mozilla-central (master).

Tested with:

http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/b2g/nightly/2014/01/2014-01-10-04-02-06-mozilla-central/b2g-29.0a1.multi.mac64.dmg

The error message has changed to:

JavaScript error: app://twittershare.gaiamobile.org/js/twittershare.js, line 26: JSON.parse: unexpected end of data at line 1 column 1 of the JSON data

Comment 2

[Gary Kwong [:gkw] [:nth10sd] (NOT official MoCo now)]

This also happens for the generic mozilla-central emulator with timestamp 20140110114743:

E/GeckoConsole(  147): [JavaScript Error: "SyntaxError: JSON.parse: unexpected end of data at line 1 column 1 of the JSON data" {file: "app://twittershare.gaiamobile.org/js/twittershare.js" line: 26}]

Comment 3

[Gary Kwong [:gkw] [:nth10sd] (NOT official MoCo now)]

Attachment: Repository revisions for emulator tested in comment 2

Error location:

https://github.com/mozilla-b2g/gaia/blame/72d0d7a29b725cf554c8241ea2204625b27dc3ed/showcase_apps/twittershare/js/twittershare.js#L26

Line was added in bug 804072 by :arcturus

Comment 4

[Francisco Jordano [:arcturus] [:francisco]]

Hi Gary,

the twittershare application has been deprecated since twitter exposed their own web activity to perform the share.

That was created as a showcase on how it can work.

Comment 5

[Gary Kwong [:gkw] [:nth10sd] (NOT official MoCo now)]

I filed bug 959447 to remove the twittershare app, which will fix this issue.

Comment 6

[Gary Kwong [:gkw] [:nth10sd] (NOT official MoCo now)]

Resolving FIXED by bug 959447.