[Task]: Unpack zip files that contain a single folder with a manifest.json file

[abyrne-moz]

Description

For an add-on to be accepted via our developer tools, we require the manifest.json file to be at the top level of the zip file. Unfortunately many OSs and Zip handlers package the entire folder/directory inside the archive.

It would be helpful if we could detect if the zip file contains a single directory, with valid add-on files, and could handle this appropriately.

Acceptance Criteria

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1. A zip file containing a single folder, that contains valid add-on files, should be accepted for submission.

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• If I have identified that the work is specific to a repository, I have removed "repository:addons-server" or "repository:addons-frontend"

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[wagnerand]

This would be a break of the spec. What is the return on invest if other stores do not do the same?

[abyrne-moz]

I feel like it would improve the experience of first time extension developers.

[abyrne-moz]

if other stores do not do the same?

FWIW, the chrome web store does exactly the behaviour that is proposed on this task if you upload a ZIP file with a folder inside.

[diox]

We repack the zip uploaded first anyway so we could do that transparently.