fails to run after global activation: could not resolve a package location

[sethladd]

Running dartdoc 0.5.0 after a pub global activate:

~/tmp/docs $ dartdoc --sdk-docs
Generating documentation for 'Dart SDK' into /Users/sethladd/tmp/docs/doc/api/

Parsed 18 files in 9.3 seconds.

Unhandled exception:
Could not resolve a package location for base at file:///Users/sethladd/.pub-cache/global_packages/dartdoc/bin/dartdoc.dart.snapshot
#0      _handlePackagesReply (dart:_builtin:416)
#1      _RawReceivePortImpl._handleMessage (dart:isolate-patch/isolate_patch.dart:148)

[devoncarew]

I note that local activations work (pub global activate --source=path .), but hosted activations fail.

[devoncarew]

This exception is a little mysterious for me. We shouldn't bubble through any of the exceptions from the Resource class; those should be caught, ignored, and the older resource loading code called.

My only guess here is that the Resource ctor is throwing an exception - something we're not taking into account. If that's the case I'm not sure why the code invoking the ctor isn't on the stack.

[devoncarew]

Fixed. We have to try the older method before we try the newer resource api. The newer api gets very unhappy w/o a .packages file or similar.

[sethladd]

Thanks for looking into this!

I was confused by the exception, too. I was surprised I didn't see more of a stack trace from my application.