On battle results statistics by RaJCeL - strange behaviour at game startup

[zzarac]

For the past few days (maybe 2 or 3 last iterations of the modpack) I've been having this strange issue where the file "xvmscales.json" from "mods/config/rajcel/" folder gets reset to 0 bytes on game startup. As a consequence, "On battle results statistics by RaJCeL" does not work. The file gets installed fine during the modpack installation, but gets its content deleted on game startup.

 

Here's the corresponding python.log portion:

2020-03-16 17:59:43.458: INFO: [rajcel.core] Unable to access https://static.modxvm.com/wn8-data-exp/json/wn8exp.json
2020-03-16 17:59:43.759: INFO: [rajcel.core] xvmscales.json updated to 2020-03-16
2020-03-16 17:59:43.764: ERROR: Exception in thread Thread-2:
2020-03-16 17:59:43.764: ERROR: Traceback (most recent call last):
2020-03-16 17:59:43.764: ERROR:   File "scripts/common/Lib/threading.py", line 810, in __bootstrap_inner
2020-03-16 17:59:43.764: ERROR:   File "scripts/common/Lib/threading.py", line 763, in run
2020-03-16 17:59:43.764: ERROR:   File "coreRajcel", line 1, in initData
2020-03-16 17:59:43.764: ERROR:   File "scripts/common/Lib/json/__init__.py", line 290, in load
2020-03-16 17:59:43.764: ERROR:   File "scripts/common/Lib/json/__init__.py", line 338, in loads
2020-03-16 17:59:43.764: ERROR:   File "scripts/common/Lib/json/decoder.py", line 366, in decode
2020-03-16 17:59:43.764: ERROR:   File "scripts/common/Lib/json/decoder.py", line 384, in raw_decode
2020-03-16 17:59:43.764: ERROR: ValueError: No JSON object could be decoded
2020-03-16 17:59:43.764: ERROR: 

 

However, the URL from the python.log (https://static.modxvm.com/wn8-data-exp/json/wn8exp.json) is working fine for me when I paste it into a web browser.

 

The workaround is to change the file's attributes to "read only" before starting the game. That will prevent clearing the file's content.

 

For now, I compressed the read-only version of the file and placed it into "Custom_mods" folder, so I don't need to change the attributes after every modpack installation.

[Quaksen]

Your internet security software is probably blocking the access to the file from within the game when the game is loading.

[zzarac]

My internet security would block it from accessing in my web browser then too. However, I can reach the URL using Chrome, Firefox and Edge.