build task create skips friendly name and fails

[microsoft]

build task create skips friendly name and fails

[teddyward]

hi. sorry you're having trouble. Works for me on windows right now but maybe there's something different about our setups. What setup are you running? Did you install globally from npm right before running the command the first time? Did you regulp the project and install from the _build/app folder after pulling from master? Try following the steps exactly as shown in the pictures below.

When pulling down from npm:

When building from source:

[teddyward]

let me know if that works. hopefully it helps. what's really weird is the fact that it's echoing the task name back to you... I think that's the cause of the problem you're having, but I don't see that logic anywhere the history of inputs.ts prompt/get method... so send me info about your workflow if that ^ doesn't work...
https://github.com/Microsoft/tfs-cli/blob/master/app/lib/inputs.ts

[Suchiman]

I've figured it out, apparently it's not a bug in tfx but rather in io.js.
This is my first time on npm / node.js so i went to https://www.npmjs.com/ to get npm which is required to install tfx.
On the bottom on the page under installing npm it provided two links, one for io.js and one for node. I've picked the first one to io.js.
Now i've uninstalled io.js, installed node.js from the second link and now it's working!

Sorry for the confusion, it might should be mentioned in the readme that io.js can cause problems, not sure if investigation is worth it, reading on the node page that io.js is being merged back into node.

[bryanmacfarlane]

Yes. Our github main page has the link to install node (not io.js)

[Suchiman]

@bryanmacfarlane i'm sorry, i've checked https://github.com/Microsoft/tfs-cli/blob/master/README.md , all files inside docs, and the wiki but none of them mentions node, they all assume you already have npm installed (and the npm webpage offers io.js first)

[bryanmacfarlane]

oooh - you're correct. I was mixing up with https://github.com/Microsoft/vso-agent which does.

Want to do a PR? If not, I can

[Suchiman]

You can do that, i'm off the road right now

[carlsonad]

I'm still experiencing this problem. The behavior is a little bit different.

Here's an example of the output:

The short task name is echoed and the friendly name is skipped.

I installed npm with the latest node release from this url: https://nodejs.org/download/release/latest/

[Suchiman]

I haven't tested it yet but i've recently read that IO.JS merged back into NodeJS so this error might have propagated.

[carlsonad]

I installed an older version of node and now it works.

Like you said the 4.x version of node merges in the io.js project which seems to have caused the problem.

[HSAR]

So anything lower than 4.X will do? I'm having this problem on 4.1.2.

[carlsonad]

I don't think anything lower then 4.x will do. I know 0.12.7 works. I think that was that last release before the merge with io.js.

[scottdallamura]

I have a trivial repro that works with 0.12.x and fails with 4.0.0 and 4.1.2. readline echoes the first input line back, which does look related. Interestingly, it doesn't echo subsequent lines.

[peterM]

I have the same issue ...when can we expect fix ?

[bryanmacfarlane]

Use node 0.12.7. It's a bug in node4.x that hasn't been fixed yet. I don't have the link handy but I'll include it.

[CharlesSterling]

Just wanted to verify this bug is still present

[T-Hugs]

We're releasing a large update to tfx-cli today, and this issue should be fixed. I revamped the arg prompting logic, and it now implements a queue of prompts so that the next prompt won't be shown until we have a value for the previous.