Connect Validator Tool no longer available

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Hi,

The connect app descriptor documentation states there is a connect validator tool developers can use to validate their app descriptors

https://developer.atlassian.com/cloud/jira/platform/connect-app-descriptor/#:~:text=Validator%20tool,validation%20service%20for%20app%20descriptors.&text=The%20validator%20will%20check%20that,you%20want%20to%20validate%20against.

Unfortunately this now appears to 404 when we attempt to use it.

Is there an alternative url we can use to have access to the validator?

Thanks :slight_smile:

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This is the URL https://atlassian-connect-validator.herokuapp.com/validate that is no longer working

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Any updates on this? Would be nice for this to be available again. I wonder if this is due to Heroku shutting down their free plan…

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Someone else shared this as an alternative:

https://json-schema.app/view/%23?url=https%3A%2F%2Fbitbucket.org%2Fatlassian%2Fconnect-schemas%2Fraw%2Fmaster%2Fconfluence-global-schema.json

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Hi

We have made some updates to the JSON schema app to replace features that the Connect validator used to have, namely a summary of the validation results and improved support for Connect documentation.

Please check out the changes here (the developer.atlassian.com docs have also been updated with these links):

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Thanks Sam. Love the new interface!

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Thanks for updating the validator tool!
After using it, we get warnings like:
Warning String is not a URI: URI with a scheme is expected.
for

"icon": {
          "width": 64,
          "height": 64,
          "url": "/img/64x64.png"
        },

However we believe relative should be allowed.

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Thank you for this bug report. You are correct that relative URLs are allowed.

Taking a look at the JSON schema for resource identifiers it looks like we should be using uri-reference instead of uri:

If the values in the schema have the ability to be relative to a particular source path (such as a link from a webpage), it is generally better practice to use “uri-reference” (or “iri-reference”) rather than “uri” (or “iri”). “uri” should only be used when the path must be absolute.

However currently we are using Draft 4 of the schema specification, which doesn’t support uri-reference:

Draft 4 only includes "uri", not "uri-reference". Therefore, there is some ambiguity around whether "uri" should accept relative paths.

Hopefully we can move to Draft 7 and get this changed over. Thanks again for pointing it out.

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Hi @SamLeatherdale ,
Thanks for your fast reply and work!

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Thanks for the update.
We are getting some Property serviceDeskPortalRequestViewPanels is not allowed. even if you are using this property the same way you explained in your documentation : https://developer.atlassian.com/cloud/jira/service-desk/customer-portal/#sample-json-3
The same apply for serviceDeskPortalRequestCreatePropertyPanels property.
Could you check this?

Thanks