“manifest error” signing ZIP with BlackBerry WebWorks SDK bbwp tool

Question

I've been following the BlackBerry online docs to build and test a WebWorks application. Unfortunately I'm hitting a manifest error: Invalid value '2.0.10' for Package-Version.

Here's the detailed output:

C:\BB>bbwp.exe "helloworld.zip" -gcsk <snip> -gp12 <snip> -buildId 10 -o "output"
[INFO]                  Parsing command line options
[INFO]                  Parsing bbwp.properties
[INFO]                  Validating WebWorks archive
[INFO]                  Parsing config.xml
[INFO]                  Populating application source
[INFO]                  Compiling WebWorks application
[INFO]                  Packaging the bar file
[INFO]                  Bar packaging complete
[INFO]                  Starting signing tool
manifest error:
Invalid value '2.0.10' for Package-Version.
[ERROR]                 Signing failed

The only place that I can see "2.0" appearing is in my config.xml file:

<widget xmlns=" http://www.w3.org/ns/widgets"
        xmlns:rim="http://www.blackberry.com/ns/widgets"
        version="2.0">

Does anybody know if I've missed a config step?

I am using 64 bit Windows 7 with Java 1.6.0_21, but I doubt that should matter.

Answer 1

Typical, I knew I would figure this out as soon as I posted the question...

I found another BlackBerry webpage that explains the buildId in more detail:

-buildId

For signed applications, this parameter specifies the build number. Typically, this number should be incremented from the previous signed application.

If you specified a version number in the config.xml file, the build number you specify becomes the fourth digit of the version number. For example, either 1.2.0 or 1.2.0.1 (in config.xml) become 1.2.0.7 if you specify a build number of 7.

If you do not specify a build number, the version number stays the same (if it is four digits long) or a fourth digit of 0 is added (if it is three digits long). For example, 1.2.0.1 remains the same, and 1.2.0 becomes 1.2.0.0.

I tried changing my config.xml version to have three digits, and then the signing step worked.

<widget xmlns=" http://www.w3.org/ns/widgets"
        xmlns:rim="http://www.blackberry.com/ns/widgets"
        version="2.0.0">

New output from the tool:

<snip>
[INFO]                  Starting signing tool
[INFO]                  Signing complete
[INFO]                  WebWorks application packaging complete

It's good to see that the original config.xml sample from BlackBerry doesn't work! :-)