[CLOSED] Opening certain folders in the file navigator throws exceptions and the folder fails to open

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Issue by tvoliter
Friday Dec 16, 2011 at 23:25 GMT
Originally opened as adobe/brackets#19

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1. Launch branckets
2. Choose "Applications" as your root directory
3. Try to open various folders. On my machine quite a few of them fail to open and the console shows exceptions.

The exceptions are coming form the definition of brackets.fs.readdir in brackets_extensions.js. It looks like JSON.parse doesn't like some of the JSON we are passing it

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Comment by peterflynn
Saturday Dec 17, 2011 at 00:23 GMT

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I can repro this with certain weird files which cause the Brackets.app native file APIs to create malformed JSON.

For example, this repros for me with one of the files inside the "Adobe Wireless Setup.app" folder. In Finder, the file is hidden (but if I show hidden files, it appears as a grayed-out file named "Icon"). In Terminal, the filename appears to be "Icon?", but I assume that's impossible since "?" is a wildcard. In the JSON Brackets.app generates, we get a CR character instead of a "?", which is illegal inside of a string literal and thus breaks the JSON string.

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Comment by peterflynn
Saturday Dec 17, 2011 at 00:37 GMT

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Seems to always happen wit the hidden "Icon" file inside app packages (or any other folder with a customized icon). I can get this with all the various Adobe CS apps' folders, for example, since they all have custom folder icons.

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Comment by peterflynn
Saturday Dec 17, 2011 at 01:54 GMT

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Replaced with adobe/brackets-app#16