github/spec-kit · error · IntegrationDescriptorError

'requires' must be a mapping

Error message

'requires' must be a mapping

What it means

Error "'requires' must be a mapping" thrown in github/spec-kit.

Source

Thrown at src/specify_cli/integrations/catalog.py:737

                    f"integration.{field} must be a string, got {type(integ[field]).__name__}"
                )

        if not re.match(r"^[a-z0-9-]+$", integ["id"]):
            raise IntegrationDescriptorError(
                f"Invalid integration ID '{integ['id']}': "
                "must be lowercase alphanumeric with hyphens only"
            )

        try:
            pkg_version.Version(integ["version"])
        except (pkg_version.InvalidVersion, TypeError):
            raise IntegrationDescriptorError(
                f"Invalid version '{integ['version']}'"
            )

        requires = self.data["requires"]
        if not isinstance(requires, dict):
            raise IntegrationDescriptorError(
                "'requires' must be a mapping"
            )
        if "speckit_version" not in requires:
            raise IntegrationDescriptorError(
                "Missing requires.speckit_version"
            )
        if not isinstance(requires["speckit_version"], str) or not requires["speckit_version"].strip():
            raise IntegrationDescriptorError(
                "requires.speckit_version must be a non-empty string"
            )
        tools = requires.get("tools")
        if tools is not None:
            if not isinstance(tools, list):
                raise IntegrationDescriptorError(
                    "requires.tools must be a list"
                )
            for tool in tools:
                if not isinstance(tool, dict):

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Solutions

1. Make the 'requires' value in the descriptor a mapping.

When it happens

Trigger: Thrown at src/specify_cli/integrations/catalog.py:737 when the library encounters an invalid state.

Common situations: See trigger scenarios.

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