Open olinorwell opened 1 year ago
I managed to solve the issue, one of my subscriptions was incorrectly formed.
Where I slipped up was that 'mvg' was the name of one of my subscriptions, but.... I have 50+, so it didn't jump out at me.
I was missing a colon symbol between the 'url' and the URL itself.
So, 100% my fault. But it would help massively, and I think help especially new users, if it could give a more descriptive error report.
E.g.
"Your subscription 'mvg' is incorrectly formatted, check the file for any obvious syntax errors. See line: XYZ in file: subscriptions.yaml".
For me "should be of type object" didn't immediately turn into "you're missing a colon" in my head.
Validation error in mvg.download
pointed you to mvg
at least. But yeah I agree the error messages could be better. I'll look into adding line numbers and improving the object
error message.
Behind the scenes it's expecting a certain type. In that instance, it expects a python dictionary (which is called object to users), but got a string from your missing colon. object is too vague to your point, I'll try to think of a better way to phrase this
I'm getting a '[ytdl-sub] Validation error in mvg.download: should be of type object.' error after adding a series of new subscriptions to a subscriptions.yaml file that was already working.
I assume there must be a problem with one of the subscriptions I added, there does not appear to be any issue with the YAML file.
The issue/bug is of course I have absolutely no way of knowing what the issue is.
When reaching a validation error, the program needs to output as much data as possible, to give context, otherwise it's impossible to know where to start.