iOS Emulator - Error loading partial Info.plist template file about mobile.buildtools

[ondrejnovotny]

This problem disappears when you disable

"manifests": {
"token": "$",
"variablePrefix": "Manifest_",
"missingTokensAsErrors": true,
"disable": true
}

[varyamereon]

I was experiencing the same, setting everything I wasn't using explicitly to disabled in buildtools.json enabled me to build again for iOS. Not sure which part exactly was causing the problem, the only feature I am using is "appSettings".

[carbon-paulc]

@varyamereon Ditto with the appsettings. Just tried this (well all of the ones that appeared in the automatic file) and it didn't work. Would it be possible to check your buildtools.json file to see if there's anything missing?
My file below if it helps:

{
	"$schema": "https://mobilebuildtools.com/schemas/v2/buildtools.schema.json",
	"appSettings": {
		"Journey": [
			{
				"properties": [
					{
						"name": "ClientId",
						"type": "String"
					},
					{
						"name": "ClientSecret",
						"type": "String"
					}
				]
			}
		]
	},
	"appConfig": {
		"strategy": "TransformOnly",
		"disable": true
	},
	"artifactCopy": {
		"disable": true
	},
	"automaticVersioning": {
		"behavior": "PreferBuildNumber",
		"environment": "All",
		"versionOffset": 0,
		"disable": true
	},
	"css": {
		"minify": false,
		"bundleScss": false,
		"disable": true
	},
	"images": {
		"directories": [],
		"conditionalDirectories": {
			"Debug": [],
			"!Debug": [],
			"iOS": [],
			"Android": []
		},
		"disable": true
	},
	"manifests": {
		"token": "$",
		"variablePrefix": "Manifest_",
		"missingTokensAsErrors": false,
		"disable": true
	},
	"releaseNotes": {
		"maxDays": 7,
		"maxCommit": 10,
		"characterLimit": 250,
		"filename": "ReleaseNotes.txt",
		"createInRoot": false,
		"disable": true
	},
	"environment": {
		"defaults": {},
		"configuration": {
			"Debug": {}
		},
		"disable": true
	},
	"debug": false
}

[varyamereon]

Here is mine:

{
  "$schema": "https://mobilebuildtools.com/schemas/v2/buildtools.schema.json",
  "appConfig": {
    "disable": true
  },
  "artifactCopy": {
    "disable": true
  },
  "automaticVersioning": {
    "behavior": "Off"
  },
  "css": {
    "disable": true
  },
  "images": {
    "disable": true
  },
  "manifests": {
    "disable": true
  },
  "appSettings": {
    "AppName": [
      {
        "accessibility": "Internal",
        "className": "AppSettings",
        "delimiter": ";",
        "namespace": ".",
        "rootNamespace": null,
        "properties": [
          {
             // properties
          }
        ]
      }
    ]
  },
  "releaseNotes": {
    "disable": true
  },
  "debug": false
}

Difference I spotted was I set automatic versioning behavior to off and I don't have a setting for environment.

Hope it helps.

[carbon-paulc]

That worked! Tempted to remove bits one by one to see what caused it but thats for another day.

Not surw whether I should close this or leave it as a bug?