I have a call in now to Esri but there was no immediate solution. (I gave them a link to this posting too.)
We're not planning on keeping WAB around forever so I don't really want to troubleshoot this. I was briefly tempted to dig into the javascript that creates the problem but then I'd just be working for Esri for free.
We don't publish from WABDE every day. So I built a workaround for it. I will give my team a script similar to this, which can be run after deployment. This version strips out the stupid "icon" lines and spits the repaired JSON code out to STDOUT (eg prints it). If anyone else hits this bug maybe this will help you too. I haven't decided what the final version will look like but this does the job for now. I will probably add code to make it into a filter (make a backup file and overwrite the config.json file) and stick it in a Python toolbox.
"""
Read a config.json file and remove the weird references to icon.png files.
Give me a filename and I will repair the file and spit the new data out to STDOUT.
Give me nothing and I will run a unit test
"""
import sys
import re
def do_work(data):
previous_line = None
re_search = re.compile(r'"icon":\s+\"/webappbuilder')
for line in data:
line = line.rstrip() # Remove newline
if previous_line:
if re_search.search(line):
# drop this line and remove the comma from the previous line
if previous_line.endswith(','):
previous_line = previous_line[:-1]
line = None # this line will be dropped
print(previous_line)
previous_line = line
if previous_line:
print(previous_line)
if __name__ == "__main__":
# unit test
test_data = [
"1 remove comma from this line,",
'2 "icon": "/webappbuilder this line should get dropped',
"3 some text,",
'4 "icon": "webappbuilder this line should not match so it should be in output',
"5 last line"
]
try:
config = sys.argv[1]
with open(config, "r") as fp:
config_data = fp.readlines()
do_work(config_data)
except:
print("Running tests")
do_work(test_data)
Now on to more interesting problems... Cheers.
