Cannot install simple batch upload by the tar file

[LesleyLai]

I installed the extension by the "alternative" method, but it failed. Here is the error message in php.log:

PHP Fatal error: Uncaught exception 'Exception' with message '{{My Mediawiki Root Path}}/extensions/SimpleBatchUpload/extension.json is not a valid JSON file.' in {{My Mediawiki Root Path}}/includes/registration/ExtensionRegistry.php:176
Stack trace:
#0 {{My Mediawiki Root Path}}/includes/registration/ExtensionRegistry.php(127): ExtensionRegistry->readFromQueue(Array)
#1 {{My Mediawiki Root Path}}/includes/Setup.php(39): ExtensionRegistry->loadFromQueue()
#2 {{My Mediawiki Root Path}}/includes/WebStart.php(137): require_once('/var/lib/opensh...')
#3 {{My Mediawiki Root Path}}/index.php(38): require('/var/lib/opensh...')
#4 {main}
thrown in {{My Mediawiki Root Path}}/includes/registration/ExtensionRegistry.php on line 176

I omitted my mediawiki root path. It is weird since "SimpleBatchUpload/extension.json" is a valid JSON.

[s7eph4n]

Could you post your extension.json?

Also which exact version of SimpleBatchUpload and MediaWiki are you using?

[LesleyLai]

The extension.json is below, I have not modified it.

{
    "name": "SimpleBatchUpload",
    "version": "1.1.0",
    "author": [
        "[http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:F.trott Stephan Gambke]"
    ],
    "url": "https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:SimpleBatchUpload",
    "descriptionmsg": "simplebatchupload-desc",
    "license-name": "GPL-2.0+",
    "type": "specialpage",
    "requires": {
        "MediaWiki": "~1.26"
    },
    "MessagesDirs": {
        "SimpleBatchUpload": [
            "i18n"
        ]
    },
    "callback": "SimpleBatchUpload\\SimpleBatchUpload::initCallback",
    "manifest_version": 1,
    "load_composer_autoloader" : true
}

My Mediawiki version is 1.26.2. And I am using SimpleBatchUpload Release 1.1.0, the actually file is "SimpleBatchUpload.1.1.0.with.dependencies.tar.gz".

[s7eph4n]

Just tried it and it works for me. Could this be a rights problem?

[s7eph4n]

Turns out that the tar ball was borked. Autoloading of classes did not work.
Could you try https://github.com/s7eph4n/SimpleBatchUpload/releases/tag/1.2.0-RC1 and see if it works for you?

[LesleyLai]

It worked. Thank you.