sfdx force:source:retrieve -m CustomMetadata fails

[mshanemc]

Summary

sfdx force:source:retrieve -m CustomMetadata fails against non-scratch orgs

Steps To Reproduce:

Create a non-scratch org and auth to it
sfdx force:source:retrieve -m CustomMetadata

I can't reproduce it with a scratch org because the command works against scratch orgs.

Expected result

Source retrieves

Actual result

$ sfdx force:source:retrieve -u platformers -m CustomMetadata
ERROR running force:source:retrieve: The "path" argument must be of type string. Received type object

Additional information

Fails against both production and full sandbox
Also fails when trying to pull using the OrgBrowser in vscode...same command underneath in the Output
sfdx-cli/7.61.0 darwin-x64 node-v12.14.0

$ sfdx plugins --core
@mshanemc/sfdx-migration-automatic 0.3.1 (link) /Users/shane.mclaughlin/code/sfdx-migration-automatic
@oclif/plugin-autocomplete 0.2.0
@oclif/plugin-commands 1.2.3 (core)
@oclif/plugin-not-found 1.2.4 (core)
@oclif/plugin-plugins 1.7.10 (core)
@oclif/plugin-warn-if-update-available 1.7.0 (core)
@oclif/plugin-which 1.0.3 (core)
@salesforce/analytics 0.17.0 (link) /Users/shane.mclaughlin/code/sfdx-analytics-plugin
@salesforce/lwc-dev-server 2.2.0
├─ @oclif/plugin-help 2.2.1
└─ @oclif/plugin-update 1.3.9
@salesforce/sfdx-diff 0.0.6
@salesforce/sfdx-trust 3.0.7 (core)
analytics 1.7.1 (core)
evergreen 0.22.10
└─ evergreen-build 0.11.1
generator 1.1.2 (core)
salesforcedx 48.19.0
├─ @salesforce/sfdx-plugin-lwc-test 0.1.5
├─ custom-metadata 1.0.1
├─ salesforce-alm 48.20.0
└─ salesforcedx-templates 48.18.0
sfdx-cli 7.61.0 (core)
shane-sfdx-plugins 4.37.1 (link) /Users/shane.mclaughlin/code/shane-sfdx-plugins

OSX 10.15.5 (19F101)

[mshanemc]

I got this to work--it looks like if the cmdt object is in a packageDirectory that isn't the default, and the pull tries to put the CustomMetadata into a different packageDirectory that is the default, you get this error message.

[mdonnalley]

This is no longer reproducible with the latest version of the CLI

[banderson5144]

How come using this command works sfdx force:source:retrieve -m CustomMetadata but if I specify a wildcard in a package.xml and do sfdx force:source:retrieve -x package.xml I get this error The specified metadata type is unsupported: [Custom?Metadata]

[shanerk]

Note CustomMetadata works but not Custommetadata (case sensitive).

[alexferrari88]

In package.xml I add:

<types>
   <members>*</​members>
   <name>Custom​Metadata</name>
</types>

This is what the Salesforce documentation suggests. Yet I get the error:
ERROR running force:source:retrieve: The specified metadata type is unsupported: [Custom​Metadata]

Using the command sfdx force:source:retrieve -m CustomMetadata as suggested by @banderson5144 here, it works.

This doesn't make much sense...

[joelemmer-cko]

@alexferrari88 Using:

<types>
   <members>*</​members>
   <name>Custom​Metadata</name>
</types>

works for me. It exports all metadata.

It would have been better for me to be able to specify the API name of the particular metadata object, or use some sort of filtering, but that doesn't seem possible.

The only other package.xml configuration that worked was to pull out specific metadata records by specifying their unique fullName. e.g.:

<types>
   <members>MyCustomMetadataObject.uniqueMetadataRecordName</​members>
   <name>Custom​Metadata</name>
</types>