
Description
Brief description of your issue
When processing files in a directory, $PathChildItemsJSON
and/or $PathChildItemsYAML
may be null. This is not accounted for in the subsequent if/else statements that perform validation. If one or the other is null, this will fail internally because of null references. Strict mode is not enabled for these scripts, so the failure cause is not obvious to the caller:
VERBOSE: Path pointed to a directory, found 0 JSON files, and 0 YAML files.
Get-WinGetManifest: D:\b\winget-cli-restsource-ameltzer\bin\Library\Add-WinGetManifest.ps1:109:32
Line |
109 | $ApplicationManifest = Get-WinGetManifest -Path $Path
| ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
| Directory does not contain any combination of JSON and YAML files.
VERBOSE: Returning (0) manifests based on search.
Exception: D:\b\winget-cli-restsource-ameltzer\bin\Library\Add-WinGetManifest.ps1:111:13
Line |
111 | throw "Failed to retrieve a proper manifest. Verify and t …
| ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
| Failed to retrieve a proper manifest. Verify and try again.
This gives the appearance of there being no YAML or JSON files, but there's actually 4 yaml files in my directory. Running again with Set-StrictMode -Version Latest
shows detailed failure information:
VERBOSE: Retrieving a copy of the app Manifest file for submission to WinGet source.
PropertyNotFoundException: D:\b\winget-cli-restsource-ameltzer\bin\Library\Get-WinGetManifest.ps1:162:77
Line |
162 | … ath pointed to a directory, found $($PathChildItemsJSON.count) JSON f …
| ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
| The property 'count' cannot be found on this object. Verify that the property exists.
VERBOSE: Path pointed to a directory, found JSON files, and 4 YAML files.
PropertyNotFoundException: D:\b\winget-cli-restsource-ameltzer\bin\Library\Get-WinGetManifest.ps1:166:24
Line |
166 | … if($PathChildItemsJSON.count -eq 0 -and $PathChildItemsYAML. …
| ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
| The property 'count' cannot be found on this object. Verify that the property exists.
InvalidOperation: D:\b\winget-cli-restsource-ameltzer\bin\Library\Get-WinGetManifest.ps1:264:25
Line |
264 | switch ($ManifestFileType) {
| ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
| The variable '$ManifestFileType' cannot be retrieved because it has not been set.
This can be fixed by doing this:
$PathChildItemsJSON = Get-ChildItem -Path $Path -Filter "*.json" -ErrorAction SilentlyContinue
if (!$PathChildItemsJSON) {
$PathChildItemsJSON = @()
}
$PathChildItemsYAML = Get-ChildItem -Path $Path -Filter "*.yaml" -ErrorAction SilentlyContinue
if (!$PathChildItemsYAML) {
$PathChildItemsYAML = @()
}
Unfortunately, while fixing this works around the null reference issues, it then runs into #179 :(
VERBOSE: Retrieving a copy of the app Manifest file for submission to WinGet source.
VERBOSE: Path pointed to a directory, found 0 JSON files, and 4 YAML files.
VERBOSE: Single YAML has been found in the specified directory.
Get-WinGetManifest: D:\b\winget-cli-restsource-ameltzer\bin\Library\Add-WinGetManifest.ps1:109:32
Line |
109 | $ApplicationManifest = Get-WinGetManifest -Path $Path
| ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
| Unable to process YAML files. Re-import the module to reload the required dependencies.
VERBOSE: Returning (0) manifests based on search.
Exception: D:\b\winget-cli-restsource-ameltzer\bin\Library\Add-WinGetManifest.ps1:111:13
Line |
111 | throw "Failed to retrieve a proper manifest. Verify and t …
| ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
| Failed to retrieve a proper manifest. Verify and try again.
Steps to reproduce
Run Add-WinGetManifest and point to a path with .yaml documents.