I've developed a simple mod that works seamlessly in eclipse on the client- and server-sides, yet when I export the project, as a zip and a s a jar, forge throws me this error when I load it outside of eclipse:

 

2014-01-08 18:12:29 [FINE] [ForgeModLoader] Examining file Zeus-1.6.4-0.1.12.1.zip for potential mods

2014-01-08 18:12:29 [FINER] [ForgeModLoader] Located mcmod.info file in file Zeus-1.6.4-0.1.12.1.zip

2014-01-08 18:12:29 [WARNING] [ForgeModLoader] Zip file Zeus-1.6.4-0.1.12.1.zip failed to read properly, it will be ignored

java.lang.ClassCastException: com.google.common.collect.Lists$TransformingRandomAccessList cannot be cast to java.lang.String

at cpw.mods.fml.common.ModMetadata.<init>(ModMetadata.java:107)

at cpw.mods.fml.common.MetadataCollection.parseModMetadataList(MetadataCollection.java:84)

at cpw.mods.fml.common.MetadataCollection.parse10ModInfo(MetadataCollection.java:76)

at cpw.mods.fml.common.MetadataCollection.from(MetadataCollection.java:47)

at cpw.mods.fml.common.discovery.JarDiscoverer.discover(JarDiscoverer.java:53)

at cpw.mods.fml.common.discovery.ContainerType.findMods(ContainerType.java:42)

at cpw.mods.fml.common.discovery.ModCandidate.explore(ModCandidate.java:71)

at cpw.mods.fml.common.discovery.ModDiscoverer.identifyMods(ModDiscoverer.java:137)

at cpw.mods.fml.common.Loader.identifyMods(Loader.java:353)

at cpw.mods.fml.common.Loader.loadMods(Loader.java:484)

at cpw.mods.fml.server.FMLServerHandler.beginServerLoading(FMLServerHandler.java:99)

at cpw.mods.fml.common.FMLCommonHandler.onServerStart(FMLCommonHandler.java:350)

at net.minecraft.server.dedicated.DedicatedServer.func_71197_b(DedicatedServer.java:69)

at net.minecraft.server.MinecraftServer.run(MinecraftServer.java:445)

at net.minecraft.server.ThreadMinecraftServer.run(SourceFile:583)

 

(Here's the full log: https://gist.github.com/anonymous/532b9c95836aff77712d )

 

I've searched around, yet not found anything helpful to an actual mod file, so how might I go about fixing this seemingly simple yet annoying error?

It looks like it doesn't like your mcmod.info file

If you have one, can you post it please?

I may have just found something, but here's the current version. Have at it

 

Cannot access the upload path... I've pulled the mcmod.info out of my dev folder on to my desktop even

 

but hey, here's an alternative: https://gist.github.com/anonymous/972d78e19ff2b3ada4fc

I've seen something like this before, apparently it doesn't like you having your array brackets on separate lines, try slimming it down a bit and see about that.

I doubt that.

 

I took a looksee at my own mcmod.info file and cross referenced with the official documentation and here's what I see:

 

"authorList" is not a recognized object (should be "authors").

"credits" is supposed to be a string, not an array of strings

 

Aight, I'll reformat it and see if it accepts it.

 

Up until this point I was referencing Pahimar's LetsMod mcmod.info, but it's most likely out of date by now

 

EDIT: alright, the server and client both load the mod WITH the mcmod.info in the client's case, and now I'm seeing a few errors I can fix up as they're just formatting errors from what I can tell, in the code itself. Thanks for your help guys!

Possible.  I wouldn't know.

I took mine from someone else and I haven't needed to chance it (except for the info, of course) since then.  Took me weeks to find that documentation page, too (you can give me a thanks over here, if you'd like).