nsIPrefBranch.setComplexValue failing in TB 58.0b1
With Thunderbird 58.0b1, many of the add-ons I have installed, including
some of the add-ons I wrote and maintain, are erroring on startup like this:
1512852280822 addons.xpi WARN Exception running bootstrap
method startup on remote-content-by-folder@kamens.us: [Exception...
"Component returned failure code: 0x80004002 (NS_NOINTERFACE)
[nsIPrefBranch.setComplexValue]" nsresult: "0x80004002
(NS_NOINTERFACE)" location: "JS frame ::
chrome://remote-content-by-folder/content/defaultPreferencesLoader.jsm
:: pref :: line 99" data: no] Stack trace:
pref()@defaultPreferencesLoader.jsm:99 <
remote-content-by-folder.js:7 <
parseDirectory/<()@defaultPreferencesLoader.jsm:75 <
parseDirectory()@defaultPreferencesLoader.jsm:74 <
loadDefaultPreferences()@resource://gre/modules/addons/XPIProvider.jsm
-> file:///home/jik/src/remote-content-by-folder/bootstrap.js:170 <
startup()@resource://gre/modules/addons/XPIProvider.jsm ->
file:///home/jik/src/remote-content-by-folder/bootstrap.js:111 <
callBootstrapMethod()@resource://gre/modules/addons/XPIProvider.jsm:4404
< startup()@resource://gre/modules/addons/XPIProvider.jsm:2230 <
callProvider()@resource://gre/modules/AddonManager.jsm:263 <
_startProvider()@resource://gre/modules/AddonManager.jsm:730 <
startup()@resource://gre/modules/AddonManager.jsm:897 <
startup()@resource://gre/modules/AddonManager.jsm:3082 <
observe()@jar:file:///home/jik/bin/thunderbird-58.0b1/omni.ja!/components/addonManager.js:65
Note that this is a bootstrapped add-on, not an overlay add-on, and that
I'm not relying on Thunderbird to load my default preferences
automatically -- that has never been supported in bootstrapped add-ons,
so I've always had code in this add-on to load the default preferences,
and that code is what's failing here.
I know there has been email going back and forth about various things
changing and becoming incompatible, but I don't recall whether
nsIPrefBranch in general or nsIPrefBranch.setComplexValue in particular
was mentioned as having changed in an incompatible way.
I've searched to see if I can find out more about this failure, but by
Google-fu apparently is not good enough to find anything, or it's just
not out there, I don't know which.
Is this failure expected? If so, then what's the fix for it? I.e., how
do I store UTF-8 strings in preferences?
FYI, the code that's failing in the error shown above can be found here
https://github.com/jikamens/remote-content-by-folder/blob/master/content/defaultPreferencesLoader.jsm#L99.
Thanks,
Jonathan Kamens