yonaskolb / yonaskolb/XcodeGen
Confusing error message when missing required property
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Description
I'm using xcodegen 2.27.0, installed via homebrew. I wrote a project spec, and had an info: key to include a Plist, but I neglected to add a path property to it. That produced this error:
Parsing project spec failed: Decoding failed at "path": Nothing found
This confused me to the point where I cloned the project and stepped through it in Xcode until I figured out where the error was coming from. It would be great if this error could at least tell me that it's trying to decode a Plist object, which would have given me a clue.
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Research direction
Reproduce the failure in xcodegen 2.27.0 with an info: entry containing a Plist without a path. Trace the decoding failure from the project spec parser and make the resulting error identify the Plist object; done means the missing-property message gives enough context to locate the invalid spec entry.
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Assessment
- Tech stack
- swift
- Domain
- cli
- Issue type
- Bug
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- 3/5
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- 1-2 days
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- Stale
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- 45/100