Package Builder - 401 problem

Below are the only things that can cause a 401 for that endpoint.

1. Package ID does not exist in the database
2. Package is not published
3. Package is not a Joomla type
4. Package is a Joomla Plugin and is missing XML > Folder
5. Package is missing XML > Element
6. Package has no available versions (you're not using * wildcard for versioning in Package > Download)

Those are strictly the only ways the version endpoint can cause a 401. I'll be reviewing causing less 401's in a future release and just skipping over things to output an empty version XML instead in a future release, but those are still issues that should be checked and addressed. I'll see if I can have a release out shortly to implement that.

Edit: There is no logical way for me to remove these 401. They are the result of an incomplete package configuration.

Hmm well - I have checked all the points:

1. Package ID does not exist in the database
- It does indeed exist in  2. Package is not published
- It is
3. Package is not a Joomla type
- It is Joomla type and installs fine as so on a site. It contains a component and a module.
4. Package is a Joomla Plugin and is missing XML > Folder
5. Package is missing XML > Element
- As in 3. - it installs fine as a package on a site.
6. Package has no available versions (you're not using * wildcard for versioning in Package > Download)
- I am using *  -> pkg_smssystem_*.zip

- As in 3. - it installs fine as a package on a site.

It doesn't matter if it installs fine or not. Those parameters must be set for the version checker. They're exclusively used for it. Please edit your package and under the XML tab be sure you've set those parameters correctly.

It sounds like it's a Joomla package. So you should only have XML > Element to configure. This should match whatever you set the element to in your XML file. In a future release CB Package Builder will automatically extract this. Right now it does not so you need to configure that parameter for the version checker to know what the package element is.

Sorry - but exactly which tag in the xml file for the package do you refer to ?? I have no element tag ?

Do you mean I have to add this to the package manifest file <element>smssystem</element> - if my package name is pkg_smssystem

For Joomla packages it's represented as "packagename" in the XML prefixed by pkg_ as per Joomla documentation. I've no idea why they went with that when all other XML's in Joomla use "element" but it certainly adds to the confusion unnecessarily. Example as follows.



XML > Element = pkg_myextension

Basically it will match whatever the "element" column is in _extensions for that package when installed. It's used by Joomla's update system to match extensions to check for updates.

Ok so now i added <packagename>smssystem</packagename> to the package manifest xml, and in the Package under XML -> Element I entered: pkg_smssystem and by the way I have selected Site underneath. Still no luck!