DESCRIBE MICROFLOW doesn't produce round-trippable MDL for microflows that contain loops.

[justin-durbin]

DESCRIBE outputs LOOP $ItrLoad IN $LoadList with no BEGIN ... END LOOP; body. The activities inside the LoopedActivity container in the Mendix model are simply not serialized. This is confirmed by the catalog showing a LoopedActivity entry with 118 total activities, but the MDL output only accounts for ~70 of them outside the loop.

The fix needed in mxcli:

DESCRIBE MICROFLOW needs to recursively serialize the contents of LoopedActivity nodes, outputting them as:

LOOP $ItrLoad IN $LoadList
BEGIN
-- activities inside the loop body
CALL MICROFLOW TransFloConnector.SUB_POST_Batch_NewLoad(...);
...
END LOOP;
Once that works, the full microflow can be safely read → modified → written back without data loss.

Secondary issue (also needed):

The SHOW CALLEES OF command also misses calls made from within loop bodies — likely because it reads from the same incomplete serialization path.

[ako]

Which version of mxcli are you using, and which version of mendix?

[ako]

Current describe behavior on mendix 11.8.0:

[engalar]

Investigation results

DESCRIBE MICROFLOW loop body — already implemented

DESCRIBE MICROFLOW does serialize loop bodies via emitLoopBody() and traverseLoopBody() in cmd_microflows_show_helpers.go. There's a passing roundtrip test (TestRoundtripMicroflow_LoopWithBody) that creates a microflow with a LOOP, describes it, and verifies the output includes BEGIN ... END LOOP; with the body activities.

If you're seeing missing loop body output in DESCRIBE, it may be a specific edge case in your project. Could you share the project file (or a minimal reproduction) so we can investigate further?

SHOW CALLEES — confirmed bug, fixed

The secondary issue (SHOW CALLEES missing calls from within loop bodies) is confirmed. buildReferences() only iterated top-level ObjectCollection.Objects without recursing into LoopedActivity.ObjectCollection.

Fix: #45 — extracts a collectActionActivities() helper that recursively collects all ActionActivity objects from nested loop bodies.