Library schematic does not support path property

[CobusKruger]

🐞 Bug report

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- [X] schematics

Is this a regression?

Not as far as I know

Description

I tried to create a schematic that generates an application and adds a library to it. However, the library schematic does not accept a path as parameter and it then attempts to create the library in the folder that contains the application. Specifically, it tries to read the angular.json file from the folder containing the application folder (e.g. the folder where the schematic is run).

Note that I expected the path property to work, as it's included with most of the other Angular schematics, for example component, module and service.

🔬 Minimal Reproduction

A minimal reproduction may be found in this repo.

It also addresses a problem I had when trying to work around this with applyToSubtree.

Here is the simplest description I could come up with.

Given this factory:

export function createProject(_options: any): Rule {
  return (_tree: Tree, _context: SchematicContext) => {
    return chain([
      externalSchematic('@schematics/angular', 'ng-new', optionsNew),
      externalSchematic('@schematics/angular', 'library', optionsLib)
    ]);
  };
}

If you execute the schematic in a folder named /parent/folder and the app generates in a new folder named app (/parent/folder/app), the library schematic searches for the angular.json in /parent/folder instead of /parent/folder/app.

🔥 Exception or Error

An error occured:
Error: Unable to locate a workspace file for workspace path.
    at Object.readWorkspace (C:\dev\scratchpad\scaffolding-tests\node_modules\@angular-devkit\core\src\workspace\core.js:74:19)
    at async Object.getWorkspace (C:\dev\scratchpad\scaffolding-tests\node_modules\@schematics\angular\utility\workspace.js:51:27)
    at async C:\dev\scratchpad\scaffolding-tests\node_modules\@schematics\angular\library\index.js:153:27

🌍 Your Environment

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Angular CLI: 8.3.1
Node: 12.12.0
OS: win32 x64
Angular: undefined
...

Package                      Version
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@angular-devkit/architect    0.803.1 (cli-only)
@angular-devkit/core         8.3.17
@angular-devkit/schematics   8.3.17
@schematics/angular          8.3.1 (cli-only)
@schematics/update           0.803.1 (cli-only)
rxjs                         6.4.0
typescript                   3.5.3

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#17598

[BrianMikinski]

I'm bumping into the same issue for any schematic dev work trying to use the Angular Schematics config getWorkspacePath method - they'r blowing up in test runs and dev work no matter what work arounds I try to implement

[ActJV]

+1

[d-koppenhagen]

Same here.
I think the problem is that after running externalSchematic('@schematics/angular', 'ng-new', optionsNew), the workspace is just present as a virtual tree and not entered. So the next Rule can't determine that it's in a valid Angular workspace. Is there a way to tell the schematics, to either:

• enter the target workspace within the virtual representation and use this as new base
• save the changes made by externalSchematic('@schematics/angular', 'ng-new', optionsNew) from virtual tree to the file system and then run the next Rule afterwards?

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[maguilarl]

I have the same problem, any update?