Briefcase configuration error: Configuration for 'statmachgen' is incomplete (missing 'description', 'sources')

[hlovatt]

Hi,

I had a working app with all the code in app.py and the file layout, toml, etc. generated by briefcase new. I then split the all-in-one code in app.py into three files app.py, input.py, and model.py. I now get the following error when I run briefcase dev:

Briefcase configuration error: Configuration for 'statmachgen' is incomplete (missing 'description', 'sources')

Same result for briefcase update and briefcase dev -r.

However, the toml does have them:

# This project was generated with 0.3.20 using template: https://github.com/beeware/briefcase-template@v0.3.20
[tool.briefcase]
project_name = "Pythonic Finite State Machine Generator"
bundle = "au.com.rhjod"
version = "0.0.0"
url = "https://rhjod.com.au/statmachgen"
license.file = "LICENSE"
author = "Howard Lovatt"
author_email = "howard@rhjod.com.au"

[tool.briefcase.briefcase.statmachgen]
formal_name = "Pythonic Finite State Machine Generator"
description = "From a finite state diagram to python code."
long_description = """From a finite state diagram the app generates python code using the `statmach` library.
"""
sources = [
    "src/statmachgen",
]
test_sources = [
    "tests",
]

requires = [
    "pydantic",
    "pydantic_extra_types",
]
test_requires = [
    "pytest",
]

...

Anyone know what's wrong?

Thanks in advance for any help,

Howard.

[freakboy3742]

Looks like a copy/paste or search/replace typo to me - the line:

[tool.briefcase.briefcase.statmachgen]

should be:

[tool.briefcase.app.statmachgen]

Not sure how that happened, but I'm guessing it's related to the rename you mentioned.

[hlovatt]

Fantastic. That's the problem. I guess in my refactoring in PyCharm it got changed. Many thanks.