App-Publisher never re-publishes

[m-lenz]

Publishing an App using

1. -n Flag = publish new

Category: 354
error Hawkbit connection error. Check your Hawkbit's IP in the propreties file!
App already exists in the appstore. Therefore no new app created.
{'content': [], 'total': 0, 'size': 0}
No app with the passed name found in Hawkbit.

not creating app because it already exists? The only existing data is the category of the app, which was added to the app-store some operations ago. The publisher still builds a Dockerfile and saves it locally

2. -r flag = update app

No app with the passed name found in Hawkbit.

not updating app , even if -n returned an error, because the app already exists

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Appanrently has the same origin as this app-store-issue

[m-lenz]

Also the function createNewAppCategory is incomplete (line 140+) and returns 1 instead of the correct ID.

139    print("Okay! There is already the app category in the appstore but i am not able to get its ID :(
140    therefore I set appCategoryID = 1. ") 
141    return 1  #TODO fix this, check with appstore developers.

[m-lenz]

updated config from eclipse/kuksa.cloud#63

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• -n Flag : Publishing Apps only works, if the category set inside the config file was never used before
  Publishing a new App with an existing App-Category returns :

error AppCategory name already exist. name: Test-new
Okay! There is already the app category in the appstore but i am not able to get its ID :(, therefore I set appCategoryID = 1. 
Category: 1
error App Category should exist!
App already exists in the appstore. Therefore no new app created.
No app with the passed name found in Hawkbit.

• -r Flag : Update Apps only works, if the yaml-file didn't change (Even changing only the version of the app will prevent it from being uploaded). Re-uploading an App with a changed version-number(version : "1.5.0" instead of version : "1.4.0") returns:

{'content': [], 'total': 0, 'size': 0}
No app with the passed name found in Hawkbit.

While re-uploading with unchanged configs returns no error:

{'content': [{'id': 653, 'vendor': 'Bosch', 'createdBy': 'admin', 'lastModifiedBy': 'admin', 'lastModifiedAt': 1558609545053, 'type': 'application', '_links': {'self': {'href': 'http://hawkbit-appstacle.westeurope.cloudapp.azure.com:8080/rest/v1/softwaremodules/653'}}, 'description': 'This is a Traccar app for GPS tracking', 'deleted': False, 'createdAt': 1558604539370, 'version': '1.4.0', 'name': 'Traccar'}], 'total': 1, 'size': 1}
Deleted the existing artifacts in hawkbit.
653
found some  <Response [201]>
Uploaded the artifacts to Hawkbit

[SebastianSchildt]

@rai20 Is this still/was this ever a problem? Should it be fixed by code or documentation?

That "-r" does not work with changed versions is either intended (should be in readme) or a bug (should be changed)

[daleonpz]

I faced the same problem when trying to upload a new app with -n

AppCategory name already exist. name: kuksa-test
Okay! There is already the app category in the appstore but i am not able to get its ID :(, therefore I set appCategoryID = 1. 
App Category should exist!
App already exists in the appstore. Therefore no new app created.
No app with the passed name found in Hawkbit.

I tried different names, nothing worked. But I the application category was actually added.

[raipratheek]

As a workaround change the name of the app to something totally new in the .yaml file and use -n flag. This should work.

Example:
say if this app does not work

change name "Dashboard" to "Dashboard2" or soemthing like that and use -n flag.

Add more comments if it does not work.

[daleonpz]

I tried also that and didn't work.

[rai20]

are you sure if the appstore and hawkbit are configured properly?
it could be that the hawkbit ip address is not configured with appstore.

If the config is also properly done. Then I need to look into this issue.

[m-lenz]

@raipratheek knows what to do. After that he will close this issue

[rai20]

This is no longer an issue. This could be closed.