Required config property "watch" missing
sherifsaleh opened this issue · 6 comments
Running "watch" task
Waiting...
Verifying property watch exists in config...ERROR
Unable to process task.
Warning: Required config property "watch" missing.
Running "watch" task
Waiting...
Verifying property watch exists in config...ERROR
Unable to process task.
Warning: Required config property "watch" missing.
Delete the comments in the config.json file
Doesn't help here. And there is no watch in https://github.com/wildbit/mailmason/blob/master/example_config.json ?
It breaks because the config file is invalid when you just copy and paste. Delete all the lines starting with '//'. There is no such syntax for comments in JSON. That's why you get the error
Verifying property watch exists in config...ERROR
Unable to process task.
Warning: Required config property "watch" missing.
because it doesn't understand the config file
Mine broke because the secrets.json file that the docs say to copy is missing a comma between "s3" and "postmark".
@sherifsaleh Are you still experiencing this issue? Removing the comments in config.json and secrets.json should fix the issue.
We just released some updates today that removes these comments from example_config.json and example_secrets.json so this is less likely to happen.
@JHerz Thanks for bringing this up. I fixed the example in the wiki.
FYI, I had a similar problem.
The cause was an error in my syntax. With JSON, trailing commas are not acceptable - while they are in similar constructs in other languages, such as dictionaries in Python.
So I had:
{ "strings": { "sender_name": "Acme", "product_name": "RocketPack", "formal_company_name": "Acme Ltd", "product_url": "https://acme.com", "address_line_1": "Desert Highway, New Mexico, USA", } }
This would have been fine as a dictionary (of dictionaries) in Python, but that last comma caused endless errors and a crash with JSON in Javascript.