Error processing applications.gecko.id: Value "[email protected]" must match regex pattern...
I'm attempting to run the Hello World sample extension as a Temporary Add-On in thunderbird, but thunderbird is throwing an error:
--- There was an error during the temporary add-on installation. Error details
Extension is invalid
Reading manifest: Error processing applications.gecko.id: Value "[email protected]" must either: match the pattern /^\{[0-9a-f]{8}-[0-9a-f]{4}-[0-9a-f]{4}-[0-9a-f]{4}-[0-9a-f]{12}\}$/i, or match the pattern /^[a-z0-9-._]*@[a-z0-9-._]+$/i ---
Here's the relevant section of my manifest.json file:
"applications": {
"gecko": {
"id": "[email protected]",
"strict_min_version": "78.0"
}
},
What am I doing wrong?
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scott144 said
What am I doing wrong?
Not using the addon developers list for help and advice perhaps? https://thunderbird.topicbox.com/groups/addons
Matt said
scott144 said
What am I doing wrong?Not using the addon developers list for help and advice perhaps? https://thunderbird.topicbox.com/groups/addons
Thanks for the suggestion, but I don't think that's the problem here. All the documentation I've read seems to imply "[email protected]" is standard.
I've got the extension working using randomstring@sample.extensions.thunderbird.net as a workaround, but that doesn't feel like the official solution.
If anyone can provide a more concrete answer than "ask these other people" that would be awesome! Thanks in advance
Ok I tried to make it a little offbeat and a low level correction. You apparently did not get it. So I will make it crystal clear. It is not a suggestion, but a pointer to the correct location to get support of add-on development issues. It is also the crux of the issue here. You are asking your question in the wrong place. Add-on development is beyond the scope of this forum and your question is off topic here.
I will now fulfill my obligation as a moderator and lock this question as off topic. I suggest you use the link to the appropriate discussion group.
I guess I'll have no choice but to seek Mozilla support from the segregated channel you've pointed me to.
It does seem odd to get the brush-off when one of the issues I posted was specifically related to incorrect documentation written by Mozilla. I would have hoped *someone* at Moz would have been able to answer that question at least.
Speaking more broadly, if it's really so important for Mozilla to keep the two communities segregated then it would be nice if Moz would at least make it easy for moderators to move a post to the preferred support channel, rather than telling users seeking Mozilla support that the Mozilla support system is the wrong place to seek support for developing Mozilla products.
Giving the run-around to people who are new to the community doesn't exactly foster a welcoming development ecosystem.
Best wishes
scott144 said
I guess I'll have no choice but to seek Mozilla support from the segregated channel you've pointed me to.
That is correct
It does seem odd to get the brush-off when one of the issues I posted was specifically related to incorrect documentation written by Mozilla.
Written by mozilla? Are you sure? You raise a number of points there. The most obvious being Mozilla do not develop Thunderbird, they ceased their involvement in development almost a decade ago, making the announcement in 2012.
I would have hoped *someone* at Moz would have been able to answer that question at least.
This is a peer support forum, you are not going to be addressing anyone that actually draws a pay packet from Mozilla or Mzla Technologies (the Thunderbird development corporation) The list you are being pointed to does at least have some Mzla employees (those involved in the addon API) involved.
Speaking more broadly, if it's really so important for Mozilla to keep the two communities segregated then it would be nice if Moz would at least make it easy for moderators to move a post to the preferred support channel, rather than telling users seeking Mozilla support that the Mozilla support system is the wrong place to seek support for developing Mozilla products.
Can you transfer posts from Facebook to Twitter? Neither can we. Nor can we transfer misdirected posts to in mozilla.org web sites to topicbox. Simple practicalities are involved. Even if it were technically possible to make the code to do so, the two or three folk a years that think development support would be located wi6th user support would not justify the costs.
Giving the run-around to people who are new to the community doesn't exactly foster a welcoming development ecosystem.
Much of the issue appears to be with folk that think Mozilla builds Thunderbird. Despite there being no mention on the product itself or the Thunderbird.net web site.
But lets look at this. The Thunderbird.net web site under getting involved lists a number of communication channels. Including the ones I pointed you to. https://www.thunderbird.net/en-US/get-involved/
I can not see a hello world addon listed in the developer.mozilla.org site. https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Mozilla/Add-ons/WebExtensions/Examples or on the github site https://github.com/mdn/webextensions-examples
I can find a hello world in developer.thunderbird.net https://developer.thunderbird.net/add-ons/mailextensions/hello-world-add-on so the text is not sourced from Mozilla. That same gitbook powered site has this page https://developer.thunderbird.net/add-ons/community which points to appropriate destinations.
I did notice that there is a support entry in the page header pointing to this location, which I do not consider appropriate. So I have filed a report asking it be changed. https://github.com/thundernest/developer-docs/issues/137 Hopefully github is the correct location and not Bugzilla. But I am sure someone will put me right if I am wrong.