Forge lint failed to parse content of manifest.yml - could not find environment variable 'value'

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Has their been a change to the way forge lint parses the manifest.yml file?

We are now seeing forge lint fail for a line in our manifest.yml that hasn’t changed in nearly 2 years.

$ forge lint

/home/pcampbell/repo/MAIN/manifest.yml
0:0     error    manifest.yml failed to parse content - could not find environment variable 'value'  valid-yaml-required

The section of the manifest.yml that it is complaining about looks like:

modules:
  ...
  jira:customFieldType:                             
    - key: aws-json-field
      name: AWS JSON Field
      description: Field containing a JSON document
      type: object
      formatter:
        expression: '`${value}`'

A workaround is to do export value=foo first, but I don’t want to have to put that in my CI script.

2

Does removing the backticks change anything? I’m just going off the examples from the docs and it doesn’t seem like it’s needed.

3

Hi,

Under Formatter example 1 (here: https://developer.atlassian.com/platform/forge/manifest-reference/modules/jira-custom-field-type/#formatter) they use backticks.

We want the backticks as part of the format (i.e. <pre></pre> wrapping the value).

They have been behaving correctly for nearly two years, only now the ${value} is not working.

4

They broke the formatter syntax by adding “environment variable parsing in the manifest”.
The backticks do not change anything.

Found this in the node_modules of @forge/cli:

# @forge/manifest

## 7.1.0

### Minor Changes

- 83e1cd7: Add environment variable parsing in the manifest

I guess downgrading forge cli to 9.0.0 ist the only solution right now.

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5

Thanks. I guess they don’t have tests on their docs.

6

Update: They reverted the environment variable parsing support and as of forge 9.1.1 the formatter syntax works again :slight_smile: .

# @forge/manifest

## 7.2.0

...

### Patch Changes

- 937db7a: Rollback manifest env var support
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