sencha app build error: [ERROR] Cannot read property 'package' of undefined

[dkamins]

Suddenly (i.e. this worked previously, and I'm not aware of changing anything, but it's possible) I'm no longer able to run the sencha command to build my app. This is what I get:

$ sencha app build -e native

[ERROR] Cannot read property 'package' of undefined

I can't find any reference to this error on Google or in this forum. What could have happened?

[mitchellsimoens]

This looks like a JS error in your code. Do you use the package property in any property like in the config object?

config : {
    foo : bar.package
}

This error sounds like bar would be undefined.

[dkamins]

This looks like a JS error in your code. Do you use the package property in any property like in the config object?

No, and in fact my app works fine when browsed with Safari. It is only the build that yields this odd error.

(On a side note, my "app.js" file was overwritten recently with a ~375 KB single line JS file recently (that looked like lots of minified ST code). I don't know where it came from, but I'm wondering if one of the build tools got confused and trashed parts of the SDK...)

[dkamins]

As I said in previous message, my `app.js` file had somehow been overwritten somehow by a minified version (not sure if it was same content or not).

I found that my `app.json` file had ALSO been overwritten by a minified version, but this time definitely with some missing data. The original file (untouched from `sencha generate app`) was 113 lines long, a dict with 9 keys. The new version was a single line, a dict with only 3 keys (id, js, css):

{"id":"2fbc1970-6ee8-11e1-ae8f-a12dda45cba8","js":[{"path":"sdk/sencha-touch.js","type":"js"},{"path":"app.js","update":"delta","type":"js"}],"css":[{"path":"resources/css/app.css","update":"delta","type":"css"}]}

I'm 90% sure there is a bug in some of part of the Sencha command that did this. The remaining 10% is devoted to my potential stupidity or faulty build scripts. But AFAIK I've never touched that file.

The error I was getting ("Cannot read property 'package' of undefined") was due to the fact that the "buildPaths" key from app.json was missing, and thus the "package" sub-key of that dict was missing. I restored the app.json from a freshly generated app, and everything is working again.

[mitchellsimoens]

This would be very odd. I have run builds many times and app.js and app.json are never touched.

[h.schwarz]

I have the same problem: after build process the app.json file is changed and minified. Definitely a bug.