I'm unable to upload my firefox extension using the form provided by mozilla. I'm constantly getting the error Your add-on failed validation with 2 errors.
No install.rdf or manifest.json foundAdd-on missing manifest, which is very misleading because my application has a manifest.json.
The manifest.json looks like this:
{
"manifest_version": 2,
"version": 1.0,
"name": "my-extension-name",
"description": "Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet",
"background": {
"scripts": ["js/background.js"]
},
"main": "popup.js",
"browser_action": {
"default_icon": "img/icon_grey.png",
"default_popup": "popup.html",
"default_title": "loremipsum"
},
"engines": {
"firefox": ">=38.0a1"
},
"permissions": [
"activeTab",
"tabs",
"background",
"http://*/*",
"https://*/*",
"notifications",
"alarms",
"storage",
"webRequest",
"webRequestBlocking",
"clipboardRead"
]
}
What is missing for this to work?
As I have found a solution to my problem and would like to share it for future reference I answer my own question:
The issue at hand was that I did not use the web-ext command line tool to create the .zip / .xpi package. I was able to solve the problem by installing web-ext and using web-ext build to build the extension. The result of this operation is a .xpi file that contains the project which I was then able to upload to the AMO service. Note that the manifest.json in the newly created package is identical to the manifest.json I originally provided. However, in addition to the manifest.json a directory META-INF was created which contains a mozilla.mf, mozilla.rsa and mozilla.sf file.
This however, did not entirely solve my problem. After uploading the extension to AMO, it could not be installed and was said to be damaged. Apparently, which is what I read somewhere in the interwebz (and forgot the source), Mozilla opens the .zip / .xpi package that is uploaded to test it and since my package was not signed, Mozilla could not ensure its integrity and marked it as insecure (i.e. damaged).
In order to solve the second problem I had to sign the extension. This can be done using the following command:
web-ext sign --api-secret YOUR_API_SECTER --api-key YOUR_API_KEY
After this, I was able to upload and install the extension.