Recover from corrupted etags.json #4078
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Problem
The Discord user from #4077 gave us more information about that exception. Eventually we discovered that
%LOCALAPPDATA%\CKAN\repos\etags.json
was corrupted, containing only 275 null bytes. Since it does not contain a JSON object, such a string deserializes tonull
, which caused that NRE.Changes
Now when we deserialize
etags.json
, we fall back to an emptyDictionary
if it's null, so an NRE won't be thrown.