Labels are out of the default folder
Summary
for some reason, labels are out of the default folder
on a simple retrieve sfdx force:source:retrieve -n W-001022 -u DEV
sfdx-cli/7.180.0 darwin-x64 node-v18.12.1
Steps To Reproduce:
- This is step 1. sfdx force:source:retrieve -n W-001022 -u DEV
Expected result
all items are in project folder
Actual result
labels folder is outside of main project folder
System Information
MACOS
- Which shell/terminal are you using? (e.g. bash, zsh, powershell 5, powershell 7, cmd.exe, etc.) SHELL=/bin/zsh
- If you are using
sfdx- Run
sfdx version --verbose --json{ "cliVersion": "sfdx-cli/7.180.0", "architecture": "darwin-x64", "nodeVersion": "node-v18.12.1", "pluginVersions": [ "@oclif/plugin-autocomplete 1.3.7 (user)", "@oclif/plugin-commands 2.2.1 (user)", "@oclif/plugin-help 5.1.20 (user)", "@oclif/plugin-not-found 2.3.9 (user)", "@oclif/plugin-plugins 2.1.8 (user)", "@oclif/plugin-search 0.0.4 (user)", "@oclif/plugin-update 3.0.8 (user)", "@oclif/plugin-version 1.1.3 (user)", "@oclif/plugin-warn-if-update-available 2.0.16 (user)", "@oclif/plugin-which 2.2.3 (user)", "@salesforce/cli 1.58.1 (user)", "alias 2.1.10 (core)", "apex 1.3.0 (core)", "auth 2.3.0 (core)", "community 2.0.18 (core)", "config 1.4.22 (core)", "custom-metadata 2.0.5 (core)", "data 2.1.13 (core)", "deploy-retrieve 1.6.16 (user)", "env 1.5.14 (user)", "functions 1.16.1 (user)", "generate 1.0.33 (user)", "generator 2.0.12 (core)", "info 2.2.11 (user)", "limits 2.1.2 (core)", "login 1.1.12 (user)", "org 2.2.15 (core)", "packaging 1.10.9 (core)", "schema 2.1.17 (core)", "settings 1.1.10 (user)", "signups 1.2.12 (core)", "sobject 0.0.33 (user)", "source 2.3.7 (core)", "telemetry 2.0.5 (user)", "templates 55.1.0 (core)", "trust 2.1.0 (user)", "user 2.1.21 (core)", "@salesforce/sfdx-plugin-lwc-test 1.0.1 (core)", "@salesforce/sfdx-scanner 3.7.1 (user)", "salesforce-alm 54.8.4 (core)", "sfdx-git-delta 5.8.0 (user)" ], "osVersion": "Darwin 22.1.0", "shell": "zsh", "rootPath": "/Users/Anton_Satskyi/.local/share/sfdx/client/7.180.0-d902059" }
- Run
- If you are using
sf- Run
sf version --verbose --json
- Run
- Paste the output here
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Hello, Same issue in different project/company/SF instance.
for some reason command(retrieve permissionSet with sfdx)
sfdx force:source:retrieve -n testchangesetvs -u company--dev
is creating additional/reduntant testchangesetvs/testchangesetvs/ directory for CustomLabels metadata type.
user@COMPUTER company % sfdx force:source:retrieve -n testchangesetvs -u company--dev
Preparing retrieve request... done
=== Retrieved Source
FULL NAME TYPE PROJECT PATH
────────────────────────────────────── ───────────── ─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
Account.Broadband_Contract_End_Date__c CustomField testchangesetvs/main/default/objects/Account/fields/Broadband_Contract_End_Date__c.field-meta.xml
Account.Broadband_Current_Supplier__c CustomField testchangesetvs/main/default/objects/Account/fields/Broadband_Current_Supplier__c.field-meta.xml
Account.Fibre_Current_Supplier__c CustomField testchangesetvs/main/default/objects/Account/fields/Fibre_Current_Supplier__c.field-meta.xml
Account.Fibre_Interest__c CustomField testchangesetvs/main/default/objects/Account/fields/Fibre_Interest__c.field-meta.xml
CustomLabels CustomLabels testchangesetvs/testchangesetvs/main/default/labels/CustomLabels.labels-meta.xml
VS_Admin PermissionSet testchangesetvs/main/default/permissionsets/Admin.permissionset-meta.xml
=== Retrieved Packages
testchangesetvs package converted and retrieved to: /Users/kamilentsua-mensah/Desktop/Repo/company/companyr--sfdx/companyr/testchangesetvs
user@COMPUTER company % tree testchangesetvs
testchangesetvs
├── main
│ └── default
│ ├── objects
│ │ └── Account
│ │ └── fields
│ │ ├── Broadband_Contract_End_Date__c.field-meta.xml
│ │ ├── Broadband_Current_Supplier__c.field-meta.xml
│ │ ├── Fibre_Current_Supplier__c.field-meta.xml
│ │ └── Fibre_Interest__c.field-meta.xml
│ └── permissionsets
│ └── Admin.permissionset-meta.xml
└── testchangesetvs
└── main
└── default
└── labels
└── CustomLabels.labels-meta.xml
10 directories, 6 files
Hey all, thanks for reporting the issue! Did this just start happening on a recent version of the CLI?
Hi,
Hello we 'discovered' it today in CICD scripted pipeline which is always updating sfdx to newest version. it's appearing on version: sfdx-cli/7.180.0 i also tried In my local machine and on seconds project/client.
Thanks, Kamil
Thanks for that info, I will try to replicate it and get back to you.
Thank You.
I am not seeing this locally with 7.180.0. I notice that you are both retrieving with -n (--packagenames). I can do some testing with packages in the morning, but I am curious if either of you able to reproduce this using --sourcepath, --manifest, or --metadata? Thanks!
Hello,
- Yes main issues is it is not working with changeSets (-n option) ((may be related to source format or something? Since this converts changeSet- 'package converted and retrieved' )). It is important because most of ours admins/consultans use change sets(they don't know how to use sfdx, git ...)
- With manifest(package.xml) and -m metadata worked fine as far as I remember.
Thanks, Kamil
Thanks for that info, I will try to replicate it and get back to you.
no, it was on 7.17X ver also
This issue has been linked to a new work item: W-12287177
Followup: have been working a lot on SDR and how decomposition/recomposition happens.
I'm not confident that we can fix this bug without causing some other problems. I'm going to use this as a test case for the custom-registry work--and you'd end up having each label in its own file like https://github.com/forcedotcom/cli/discussions/2635
Hi @antonsatskyi @Enszula -
I've just confirmed that this is fixed by adding "registryPresets": ["decomposeCustomLabelsBeta"] to your sfdx-project.json. This is using the custom registry presets we just released today. There is a bit of a transition to use them (delete your files locally, re-retrieve them) - but I hope you will do that 😄.
Proof:
using
@salesforce/cli/2.36.7 darwin-arm64 node-v18.18.2
without registry change
➜ sf project retrieve start --package-name CL
Retrieving v60.0 metadata from [email protected] using the v60.0 SOAP API
Preparing retrieve request... Succeeded
Retrieved Source
========================================================================================================================================================================
| State Name Type Path
| ─────── ─────────────────────────────────── ──────────────────────── ─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
| Created CustomLabels CustomLabels CL/CL/main/default/labels/CustomLabels.labels-meta.xml
Notice the CL/CL/main
and now
➜ sf project retrieve start --package-name CL
Retrieving v60.0 metadata from [email protected] using the v60.0 SOAP API
Preparing retrieve request... Succeeded
Retrieved Source
========================================================================================================================================================================
| State Name Type Path
| ─────── ─────────────────────────────────── ──────────────────────── ─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
| Created CustomLabels CustomLabels CL/main/default/labels/CustomLabels/CustomLabels.labels-meta.xml
it's placed in the correct package path