CODEWITHSUNDEEP
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user5977343
user5977343

Reputation:

Chrome Extension Help (Unterminated String)?

So i'm currently developing a Chrome web extension, but whenever I try to upload it, it comes up with "Error: manifest.json5:0 unterminated string". Is anyone able to help me fix this? It seems to be the only file that has a problem. 

   {
       "browser_action": {
          "default_icon": "icon.png",
          "default_popup": "popup.html”,
       "description": “Damn Daniel!”,
    },
       "manifest_version": 2,
       "name": ““,
       "permissions": [ "activeTab" ],
       "version": "0.69”,
    }

Upvotes: 1

Views: 143

Answers (3)

CodeNMore
CodeNMore

Reputation: 101

You have some sort of other quote character on this line (as well as some of your other lines):

"default_popup": "popup.html”,

as you can see, after popup.html you have a different style quotation mark (curly quote) - this will cause Chrome to believe it is a regular character, not a quote that ends a string value. I would replace it with a proper quote, and replace all of your curly quotes with this!

Upvotes: 0

Redmega
Redmega

Reputation: 683

You're using curly quotes ”. These are their own hexidecimal characters and different from the straight-quote which programming uses ("). This probably arose from copy and pasting from a word document.

You also put commas before your closing }'s. That's a no-no, as comma means it's expecting another json field to be there.

This is the valid json without the curly quotes and erroneous commas:

 {
    "browser_action": {
        "default_icon": "icon.png",
        "default_popup": "popup.html",
        "description": "Damn Daniel!"
    },
    "manifest_version": 2,
    "name": "",
    "permissions": ["activeTab"],
    "version": "0.69"
 }

I'd recommend running your code through a json lint tool to catch these sorts of issues.

Upvotes: 1

Andrew Regan
Andrew Regan

Reputation: 5113

You've got curly quotes in there. Replace them with straight quotes.

Upvotes: 0

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