Bug report #7005
Misleading error message
| Status: | Closed | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Priority: | Normal | ||
| Assignee: |  Alessandro Pasotti | ||
| Category: | - | ||
| Pull Request or Patch supplied: | No |
Description
Hi,
I tried to add a plugin (permaclim) and the server said: Cannot find metadata email in metadata source (init.py).
The email method was in the code then I discovered that the problem was the missing metadata.txt file.
History
#1
Updated by Alessandro Pasotti almost 12 years ago
Please attach the plugin for testing.
#2
Updated by Riccardo Lemmi almost 12 years ago
- File permaclim.zip added
This is the version without the metadata.txt file.
#3
Updated by Alessandro Pasotti almost 12 years ago
- Assignee set to Alessandro Pasotti
- Status changed from Open to Closed
the problem is caused by author not returning a quoted string, see:
https://github.com/qgis/qgis-django/blob/master/qgis-app/plugins/docs/metadata.rst
the parser misses email which is the following field.
Cited from a.m. documentation:
To avoid direct execution of python code (which would be a security issue), metadata are read from the init.py file with a simple regular expression parser which extracts the string values returned by the functions inside the init.py file, this means that if the functions do not return strings (enclosed in single or double quotes) or a boolean value (for the experimental entry), the metadata entry for that function will not be extracted and if the metadata is mandatory the plugin will be considered invalid.