codepunkt/webpack-license-plugin

Build fails with unclear error message: "Error"

dekim24 opened this issue · 1 comments

dekim24 commented

I can't point to an actual Github repo / app (private repo) but you should be able to reproduce by doing the following:

  • Install the dependency @mapbox/fusspot@0.4.0
  • Try to run the plugin.

Actual behavior: The plugin errors out (expected) but the message shown is the very unclear string Error
Desired behavior: The error message is formatted properly: License "BSD 2-Clause" for @mapbox/fusspot@0.4.0 is not a valid SPDX expression!

I figured out the error message that wasn't being shown properly by going into into node_modules and add a console.log(message); here:

webpack-license-plugin/src/WebpackAlertAggregator.ts

Line 11 in 1f93db3

this.errors.push(message)

I'm investigating further to try to figure out why this happened - wondering if there's something going wrong between and when an error in this particular format is in the array.

codepunkt commented

@dekim24 Any progress?