JSON error trying to post to Open Badge Backpack

[johnnsb]

I just set up a new WP instance, running off dyndns for now, and (gratefully and humbly) stumbed on your plugin. Set up a badge, added one award, sent email. When user chooses to accept the award, and goes to their Open Badge Backpack, they get the following error:

Only tested on Chrome so far.

John

[davelester]

I followed the link included in the screenshot, and it appears that the award has since been deleted or made private. What I usually do during similar instances is first eyeball the json file that the plugin generates to see if any anomalies stand out, and I also run the file through the Open Badges validator to identify what is making the assertion invalid.

Could you create a new award and share the link here, or try validating the assertion file yourself? We should be able to get to the bottom of the issue.

[jamesmichie]

I am also having the same problem, running the Twenty Eleven theme. Image attached.

[davelester]

James,

In the case of your award, it looks like you've included HTML in your badge description. Try updating the description to be 128 characters or less, without HTML.

[jamesmichie]

Does the badge description count as the 'meta-data'? If not how do I edit the meta-data?

And thanks for your speedy response by the way. :-)

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James Michie

@jamesmichie (http://twitter.com/jamesmichie)

http://jamesmichie.com (http://jamesmichie.com/)

On Monday, 7 January 2013 at 20:21, Dave Lester wrote:

James, In the case of your award, it looks like you've included HTML in your badge description. Try updating the description to be 128 characters or less, without HTML.

— Reply to this email directly or view it on GitHub (https://github.com/davelester/WPBadger/issues/44#issuecomment-11969550).

[jamesmichie]

Edited badge description. Still having same issue.

[davelester]

@jamesmichie: can you share the award url? I'll take a closer look at its JSON assertion file.

[jamesmichie]

http://jamesmichie.com/criticalskills/awards/702621670998632

[davelester]

Very minor, but it looks like there's a newline following your badge description that's making the assertion file invalid. Try removing that, and it should work.

[jamesmichie]

Brilliant! Sorted.

Is there a way to display the badge itself on the badge page?

At the moment I get this, even though I have set the featured image: http://jamesmichie.com/criticalskills/badges/research-and-enquiry/

And thanks for the help, much appreciated. :-)

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James Michie

@jamesmichie (http://twitter.com/jamesmichie)

http://jamesmichie.com (http://jamesmichie.com/)

On Monday, 7 January 2013 at 20:46, Dave Lester wrote:

Very minor, but it looks like there's a newline following your badge description that's making the assertion file invalid. Try removing that, and it should work.

— Reply to this email directly or view it on GitHub (https://github.com/davelester/WPBadger/issues/44#issuecomment-11970812).

[davelester]

Not yet, but there's a ticket already online to add this in the future, #38.

[jamesmichie]

Okay, that's great.

Thanks for all your help. I added myself to the list of people using WPBadger. :-)

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James Michie

@jamesmichie (http://twitter.com/jamesmichie)

http://jamesmichie.com (http://jamesmichie.com/)

On Monday, 7 January 2013 at 20:54, Dave Lester wrote:

Not yet, but there's a ticket already online to add this in the future, #38 (https://github.com/davelester/WPBadger/issues/38).

— Reply to this email directly or view it on GitHub (https://github.com/davelester/WPBadger/issues/44#issuecomment-11971169).

[davelester]

This JSON error occurs for a variety of reasons related to incorrect inputs.

I'm closing this ticket, since this will continue to be improved and prevented with future commits to add validation to badges and awards.