Fix crash on startup

Add publishers.json to pip package
Add exception handling to prevent crash

comicapi/comicarchive.py

@@ -537,7 +537,7 @@ class RarArchiver(UnknownArchiver):
 
         return namelist
 
-    def get_rar_obj(self) -> Optional[rarfile.RarFile]:
+    def get_rar_obj(self) -> "Optional[rarfile.RarFile]":
         try:
             rarc = rarfile.RarFile(str(self.path))
         except (OSError, IOError) as e:

comicapi/utils.py

@@ -275,4 +275,7 @@ publishers: dict[str, ImprintDict] = {}
 
 
 def load_publishers() -> None:
-    update_publishers(json.loads((pathlib.Path(__file__).parent / "data" / "publishers.json").read_text("utf-8")))
+    try:
+        update_publishers(json.loads((pathlib.Path(__file__).parent / "data" / "publishers.json").read_text("utf-8")))
+    except Exception:
+        logger.exception("Failed to load publishers.json; The are no publishers or imprints loaded")

comictaggerlib/main.py

@@ -87,6 +87,10 @@ try:
     qt_exception_hook = UncaughtHook()
     from comictaggerlib.taggerwindow import TaggerWindow
 except ImportError as e:
+
+    def show_exception_box(log_msg: str):
+        pass
+
     logger.error(str(e))
     qt_available = False
 
@@ -101,8 +105,9 @@ def update_publishers() -> None:
     if json_file.exists():
         try:
             utils.update_publishers(json.loads(json_file.read_text("utf-8")))
-        except Exception:
+        except Exception as e:
             logger.exception("Failed to load publishers from %s", json_file)
+            show_exception_box(str(e))
 
 
 def ctmain() -> None:

requirements.txt

@@ -5,4 +5,6 @@ requests==2.*
 pathvalidate
 pycountry
 py7zr
-text2digits
+text2digits
+typing_extensions
+wordninja

setup.py

@@ -55,7 +55,7 @@ setup(
     url="https://github.com/comictagger/comictagger",
     packages=["comictaggerlib", "comicapi"],
     package_data={
-        "comictaggerlib": ["ui/*", "graphics/*"],
+        "comictaggerlib": ["ui/*", "graphics/*", "data/*"],
     },
     entry_points=dict(console_scripts=["comictagger=comictaggerlib.main:ctmain"]),
     classifiers=[