# Flow format warning plugin

**URL:** <https://discourse.nodered.org/t/flow-format-warning-plugin/22615>\
**Category:** Meta\
**Created:** [4 March 2020 13:36 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/flow-format-warning-plugin/22615 "2020-03-04T13:36:01Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![Colin](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex026/user_avatar/discourse.nodered.org/colin/32/17040_2.png) [@Colin](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/Colin)\
**Post date:** [4 March 2020 13:36 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/flow-format-warning-plugin/22615/1 "2020-03-04T13:36:01Z")

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I thought there was a Discourse plugin enabled that warned users when they tried to post an incorrectly formatted flow. Is this not working any more or is something else going on?

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**Author:** ![knolleary](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex026/user_avatar/discourse.nodered.org/knolleary/32/3_2.png) [@knolleary](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/knolleary)\
**Post date:** [4 March 2020 13:49 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/flow-format-warning-plugin/22615/2 "2020-03-04T13:49:19Z")

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I disabled it after complaints it was getting a lot of false-positives.

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**Author:** ![Colin](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex026/user_avatar/discourse.nodered.org/colin/32/17040_2.png) [@Colin](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/Colin)\
**Post date:** [4 March 2020 14:30 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/flow-format-warning-plugin/22615/3 "2020-03-04T14:30:42Z")

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Oh, ok, thanks.

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**Author:** ![knolleary](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex026/user_avatar/discourse.nodered.org/knolleary/32/3_2.png) [@knolleary](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/knolleary)\
**Post date:** [4 March 2020 14:32 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/flow-format-warning-plugin/22615/4 "2020-03-04T14:32:21Z")

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I had raised a PR against the plugin to improve its detection of single-line JSON entities, but it hasn't got anywhere.

At some point, I may fork the plugin and strip it back to _only_ detect JSON blocks to reduce the spurious alerts. But I've not played with discourse plugins before so don't know when I'll have the time.

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**Author:** ![Colin](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex026/user_avatar/discourse.nodered.org/colin/32/17040_2.png) [@Colin](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/Colin)\
**Post date:** [3 April 2020 13:44 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/flow-format-warning-plugin/22615/5 "2020-04-03T13:44:58Z")

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