Failure to add badges to Mozilla backpack

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Jeff Waistell has received the following error on trying to add badges to his Mozilla backpack:

"We have encountered the following problem: Invalid assertion structure"

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• Bitbucket: https://bitbucket.org/cloudengine/cloudengine/issue/343
• Originally Reported By: Juliette Culver
• Originally Created At: 2013-03-27T16:42:14.579

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From: Jeff Waistell [brookes.ac.uk] | Sent: 08 August 2013 07:57 | To: Nick.Freear | Subject: Re: Failure to add badges to Mozilla backpack, RE: Welcome to week 7!

Thanks Nick - it appears to have worked. Best regards, Jeff

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On 6 August 2013 14:17, Nick.Freear [open.ac.uk] wrote:

Dear Jeff,

I’m doing some bug-fixing on Cloudworks while Juliette is on maternity leave. Sorry for the long wait…

I’ve implemented a number of fixes for the Mozilla badges bug that you were reporting. And, it looks like things have settled down on Mozilla’s side of the fence - the OpenBadges validator is back on line.

Would you mind trying to re-add your badges to your Backpack please? ...

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Original Comment By: Nick Freear

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Related bugs: #347/ #348.

Some fixes:

• commit:6c69d2dd1b60
• commit:e48f1535aaa17
• commit:8b1da982a1d9

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Original Comment By: Nick Freear

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Hi, Thanks for the report Jeff - and I'm sorry we've taken so long to get to it. I'm picking this up.

The validator is back online, existing assertions appear to validate, but I may well have to implement the new format/specification:

• https://github.com/mozilla/openbadges/wiki/Assertions
• Github: mozilla/openbadges/wiki/Assertion-Specification-Changes

My notes are currently in Google Docs.

Thanks,

Nick

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Original Comment By: Nick Freear

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Note that there is a new structure for badge assertions https://github.com/mozilla/openbadges/wiki/New-Assertion-Specification

and the validator is offline until it has been updated to reflect these.

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Original Comment By: Juliette Culver