Need to create a new library

cerebro11101 · November 18, 2019, 10:58pm

Hi! i’m trying to upload a custom library for my educational robot , but i get the next error :

Error: Could not parse manifest → No JSON object could be decoded

here is my JSON file : https://github.com/cerebro11101/cerebro/blob/master/library.json

can anyone help me please?

pfeerick · November 19, 2019, 7:36am

Not quite sure what happened there with your link… I suspect you mean this file?

github.com

cerebro11101/CerebroBoards/blob/master/library.json

{
  "name": "Cerebro",
  "keywords": "cerebro,Cerebro,robot",
  "description": "A library that makes use of Cerebro robot.",
  "repository": {
      "type": "git",
      "url": "https://github.com/cerebro11101/CerebroBoards"
  },
  "authors": [
      {
          "name": "Aaron Miranda",
          "url": "https://github.com/cerebro11101",
          "maintainer": true
      }
  ],
  "version": "0.0.1",
  "license": "MIT",
  "homepage": "https://github.com/cerebro11101/cerebro/wiki",
  "frameworks": "arduino",
  "platforms": "*"

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The raw JSON is fine, and nothing jumps out re: PlatformIO requirements.

When you say upload, do you mean when you try to use the code in a project, or are you trying to register the library on the PlatformIO registry?

cerebro11101 · November 20, 2019, 7:00pm

hi @pfeerick i’m trying to registry my own library

i had the next error:

when i write this line in console:

platformio lib register CerebroBoards/library.properties at master · cerebro11101/CerebroBoards · GitHub

and this is the output error:

Error: Could not parse manifest -> No JSON object could be decoded

maxgerhardt · November 20, 2019, 10:10pm

You’re giving it a Arduino-style library.properties not a JSON file. Also you’re giving it a link to the GitHub frontpage, not the direct source of the file. You should do

platformio lib register https://raw.githubusercontent.com/cerebro11101/CerebroBoards/master/library.json

pfeerick · November 20, 2019, 11:40pm

That’s still a valid library manifest format to use for registering a library. The error looks to be a generic exception, which is wrong anyway, as it should have identified the url as being a pointer to a manifest of type ManifestFileType.LIBRARY_PROPERTIES. Anyway, giving the proper http link to the file should have fixed it.