Parsing errors in arsnova.properties about arsnova-setuptool

[pcvolkmer]

Removing line breaks in line 228 fixed this for me. You should insert a comment into README.md that this must be done if using the provided link to arsnova.properties.example

[pushPatrol]

This error still shows up. I followed the installation guide and did the changes mentioned here: https://github.com/thm-projects/arsnova-backend/blob/master/src/site/markdown/installation.md#configuration

I get the following error:

Traceback (most recent call last):
File "tool.py", line 61, in
(db, conn) = couchconnection.arsnova_connection("/etc/arsnova/arsnova.properties")
File "/root/arsnova/arsnova-setuptool/couchconnection.py", line 66, in arsnova_connection
config.readfp(io.BytesIO("[arsnova]" + properties))
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/ConfigParser.py", line 324, in readfp
self._read(fp, filename)
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/ConfigParser.py", line 546, in _read
raise e
ConfigParser.ParsingError: File contains parsing errors: <???>
[line 7]: '\n'
[line 134]: ' \n'
[line 138]: ' \n'
[line 143]: ' \n'
[line 148]: ' \n'
[line 152]: ' \n'
[line 175]: '\n'
[line 189]: '\n'
[line 196]: '\n'
[line 259]: '\n'
[line 267]: '\n'
[line 282]: ' \n'
[line 290]: ' \n'
[line 298]: ' \n'
[line 304]: '\n'
[line 308]: '\n'
[line 313]: '\n'
And so on. I tried to fix all these parsing issues, but the couchconnection.py couldn't find the setting for host, port, db, user and password. So I set them in couchconnection.py directly and could run the tool.py script - finally.

[dgerhardt]

My guess is this error was caused by copy-and-pasting the content of the configuration file which might have led to unintended charset or indentation changes. I can not reproduce this error when using the arsnova.properties files distributed with ARSnova Backend releases.

New lines in property values have to be indented with at least one space. The line break itself has to be escaped with a backslash.

I'm closing this for now. Feel free to reopen but please include an affected config file to reproduce the issue in this case.