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Could you give me an example?

I unfortunately didn't save a broken sample feed, but last one I had to fix was a weirdly-formatted entry in I think the 'featured articles' feed on en.wikipedia.org.

Here's the workaround I put in place to fix that:
https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Today%27s_featured_article/January_20,_2013&diff=534362579&oldid=533956507
this adds a hidden link to the item that took priority over the media item or whatever that was in there that got misdetected.


All the code in default.js is a bit ..... haphazard, it needs a refactor. :)

But there'll be a bit that fetches a feed like this:

        fetchFeed(lang, 'featured', function (htmlList, err) {
            ....

and inside there is where the Evil Code lies.

There's stuff like this:

                var $html = $('<div>').html(html),
                    $links = $html.find('a'),
                    $imgs = $html.find('img'),
                    title = '',
                    image = '';
                for (var i = 0; i < $links.length; i++) {
                    var $link = $($links[i]);
                    if ($link.find('img').length) {
                        // Skip a link containing an image
                        continue;
                    }
                    title = extractWikiTitle($link.attr('href'));
                    break;
                }

which tries to extract an image and a wiki link from the entry.

In some cases the link ends up being something that's not in the expected "/wiki/Something" format and extractWikiTitle throws an exception.

Because the feed-handling code doesn't expect this, the exception doesn't get caught and kills the application before we've gotten a chance to show anything.


You can probably pull down a copy of the Atom feed, mess with it, and experience all kinds of fun crashes. :)

Grouping Windows 8 app specific bugs to Wikipedia/Windows 8 component.