4.0.1 Export to directory fails on exporting hooks

[dominicfallows]

Description

When runnings an export to a directory structure, the export fails on exporting hooks

Reproduction

Running command a0deploy export -c config.json -f directory -o . fails with:

2020-02-10T22:10:25.910Z - error: Problem running command export
2020-02-10T22:10:25.910Z - error: Problem exporting hooks

Environment

• a0deploy 4.0.1
• macOS Mojave and macOS Catalina

[dominicfallows]

After an initial bit of debugging, the problem starts with the line hook.name = hook.name || hook.id; in here:

auth0-deploy-cli/src/context/directory/handlers/hooks.js

Line 42 in d10013b

hook.name = hook.name || hook.id;

The specific hook being handling at the point of this error has the shape:

script: 'module.exports = function (user, context, cb) { ... }',
dependencies: {},
enabled: true,
triggerId: 'post-user-registration',
secrets: { ... },
name: undefined

name = undefined and there is no id to fallback to either.

[dominicfallows]

It works with the YAML export ok, so I will debug further into how that is handled differently, although the YAML handler has the same line hook.name = hook.name || hook.id; in here:

auth0-deploy-cli/src/context/yaml/handlers/hooks.js

Line 39 in d10013b

hook.name = hook.name || hook.id;

It must be something higher up.

[dominicfallows]

Ok, so the id gets stripped out by this.assets = stripIdentifiers(auth0, this.assets); in both directory and YAML exports:

Directory export:

auth0-deploy-cli/src/context/directory/index.js

Line 71 in f6b613b

this.assets = stripIdentifiers(auth0, this.assets);

YAML export:

auth0-deploy-cli/src/context/yaml/index.js

Line 112 in f6b613b

cleaned = stripIdentifiers(auth0, cleaned);

Any reason why it would need to strip hooks ids?

It can be resolved by including "AUTH0_EXPORT_IDENTIFIERS": true in your config, but if this is excluded (FYI the examples don't include this option) it shouldn't cause a bug with the export.

[blortfish]

@dominicfallows I ran into a similar issue. I think this might be a problem for hooks created a while ago. The name property was missing on my hooks, possibly because there was no option to name hooks back when they were created.

I was able to fix this by grabbing my hooks from the management api and assigning each of them a name property using https://auth0.com/docs/api/management/v2#!/Hooks/patch_hooks_by_id.

Not sure if this helps you, but figured i'd drop this here for anyone experiencing similar problems.

[skjolber]

Cloning the hook and deleting the old also had the same effect as using the patch_hooks_by_id. Using AUTH0_EXPORT_IDENTIFIERS in export will block import.

[MichaelBuhler]

I encountered this error today. The workaround certainly exists. For me, I was able to rename the hook in the GUI to populate the name field, and then dumping working fine. There should be a check, warning, and skip between lines 42 and 43 for unnamed hooks when identifiers are stripped.

[willvedd]

@MichaelBuhler Are you able to indicate wether or not this is still an active issue for you?

[MichaelBuhler]

@willvedd I no longer work on that project. But, as I mentioned, using the Auth0 UI to name the hook eliminates this error. I don't know if this repo still errors on dumping unnamed hooks.

[willvedd]

@MichaelBuhler thanks for the feedback.

Folks, I'm opting to close this ticket because it's fairly old and I don't believe this is an active issue. Apologies for the delayed response, it should have gotten more attention earlier. If anyone here is still experiencing this issue please feel free to open a new ticket and we can help you work through your specific issues together.