Kiwix MacOS always crash by trying to open an non-existing article

[kelson42]

Steps:
1 - Download http://tmp.kiwix.org/wikivoyage_en_all_novid_2019-06.zim
2 - Open main page
3 - Click on "Europe"

You get:
1 - Application quits

You should get:
1 - An empty page or an error

Remark
Link "Europe" points to an non-existing article, this is the root of the bug probably...

[Jaifroid]

(This is a copy of openzim/mwoffliner#852 (comment) ) This issue probably is related to the fact that the hyperlinks on the landing page of wikivoyage_en_all_novid_2019-06.zim are incorrect. The landing page's URL is:

Wikivoyage%3AOffline_reader_Expedition/Home_page

(note the forward slash). However, hyperlinks on the page are:

<a title="Europe" href="Europe">Europe</a>

That's clearly incorrect, as the href should be ../Europe. This should have been fixed in mwoffliner kiwix/kiwix-js#498. I'm not sure #157 should "fix" what is an error in the ZIM.

[jhbiggs]

Is this issue current? Do I need a paid Apple Developer license to build this app via Xcode? My first attempt failed because of a missing provisioning profile for WikiMed.

[Jaifroid]

@jhbiggs I would say this issue is still current until openzim/mwoffliner#726 is fully resolved. I don't know about your other questions.

[kelson42]

@jhbiggs Yes, I confirm.

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This issue has been automatically marked as stale because it has not had recent activity. It will be now be reviewed manually. Thank you for your contributions.

[automactic]

@kelson42 Do you happen to have a zim file available to test this issue? If not, I am gonna close this as unable to reproduce

[kelson42]

@automactic It seems to not crash anymore indeed. That said, no info/erro is printed either.

[automactic]

That said, no info/erro is printed either.

You mean when click on an article that does not exist? Do you have an example zim file that could be used as test? I have recently added a alert for this scenario on iOS could certainly do the same for macOS

[kelson42]

@automactic the current edutech fr has a lot of them.

[automactic]

added alert in #308