From 6cbe2487bc91b61e0a65df879a8065ab48f7843b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Qjuh <76154676+Qjuh@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Sat, 19 Oct 2024 21:34:51 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] fix: missing tsdocConfig in api.json preventing index
 generation (#10565)

---
 packages/api-extractor-model/src/model/ApiPackage.ts | 6 +++++-
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/packages/api-extractor-model/src/model/ApiPackage.ts b/packages/api-extractor-model/src/model/ApiPackage.ts
index 89f8b4372..e55b843b9 100644
--- a/packages/api-extractor-model/src/model/ApiPackage.ts
+++ b/packages/api-extractor-model/src/model/ApiPackage.ts
@@ -294,7 +294,11 @@ export class ApiPackage extends ApiItemContainerMixin(ApiNameMixin(ApiDocumented
 
 		const tsdocConfiguration: TSDocConfiguration = new TSDocConfiguration();
 
-		if (versionToDeserialize >= ApiJsonSchemaVersion.V_1004 && 'tsdocConfig' in jsonObject.metadata) {
+		if (
+			versionToDeserialize >= ApiJsonSchemaVersion.V_1004 &&
+			'tsdocConfig' in jsonObject.metadata &&
+			'$schema' in jsonObject.metadata.tsdocConfig
+		) {
 			const tsdocConfigFile: TSDocConfigFile = TSDocConfigFile.loadFromObject(jsonObject.metadata.tsdocConfig);
 			if (tsdocConfigFile.hasErrors) {
 				throw new Error(`Error loading ${apiJsonFilename}:\n` + tsdocConfigFile.getErrorSummary());