CLI: The --dest flag of the import command is wrongly typed as bool

[lastzero]

Discussed in #3467

^{Originally posted by ricardopaiva June 13, 2023}
I'm using docker-compose to setup Photoprism.
I have my photos and videos in a structured folder following the pattern:
YYYY\YYYY-MM-DD - <Event title>
like:
2001\2001-06-02 - Trip to London
2023\2023-01-01 - Jeremy's Birthday

Therefore I want to have these folders indexed and for that reason I'm using these volumes in my docker-compose file:

volumes:
  - multimedia_photos:/photoprism/originals/Photos:ro
  - multimedia_videos:/photoprism/originals/Videos:ro

Multimedia_photos and Multimedia_videos are two shared folders I have on my NAS.

Now I'm trying to set up a workflow to import the photos from my mobile phone to this multimedia_photos folder.
My idea would be to use PhotoSync to move the photos from the mobile into the Photoprism import folder. Then I would run the following command (I'm going to run this in cron but I'm testing it manually for now) to import the photos:

docker exec -ti photoprism photoprism import '/photoprism/import' --dest '/photoprism/originals/Organizar'

Imported photos would be, by default, organised into Year/Month/Filename, which sounds reasonable to me and on top I would need to make some extra effort to split the photos by event. I might find a better way to deal with this but for now that should work for me.
So I also have these volumes in docker-compose:

volumes:
  - multimedia_organizar:/photoprism/originals/Organizar:rw
  - multimedia_import:/photoprism/import

So I will use PhotoSync to copy the photos to the Import folder. Then run the docker exec -ti photoprism photoprism import command, so all the photos will be moved to the Organizar folder, splitted into Year/Month and then I will run some additional organisation scripts to split the photos by event and finally move it to the Photos folder.

But when I run the docker exec -ti photoprism photoprism import '/photoprism/import' --dest '/photoprism/originals/Organizar' command, the output is the following:

INFO[2023-06-12T22:11:58Z] config: case-insensitive file system detected 
INFO[2023-06-12T22:11:58Z] Become a member today, support our mission and enjoy our member benefits! 💎 
INFO[2023-06-12T22:11:58Z] Visit https://www.photoprism.app/membership to learn more. 
INFO[2023-06-12T22:11:58Z] migrate: running database migrations         
INFO[2023-06-12T22:11:59Z] moving media files from /photoprism/originals/Organizar/photoprism/originals/true 
INFO[2023-06-12T22:12:00Z] classify: loading nasnet                     
INFO[2023-06-12T22:12:02Z] classify: loading labels from labels.txt     
INFO[2023-06-12T22:12:02Z] import: found no .ppignore file              
INFO[2023-06-12T22:12:02Z] completed in 4.28038526s      

I would expect the files to be moved to folder /photoprism/originals/Organizar/2023/06/ but it seems like the --dest parameter is not working properly.
The folder I'm getting on the output is /photoprism/originals/true, which is also weird because this "true" folder doesn't make any sense and seems to be coming from a boolean variable, probably.

I also tried to run this instead:
docker exec -ti photoprism photoprism import '/photoprism/import' --dest 'originals/Organizar'
Because according to the documentation --dest is a path relative to the Originals path, but the output seems to be the same.

If I skip the parameter, then the import works fine but the folder is created under the /photoprism/originals folder like /photoprism/originals/2023/06 but that's not what I want because it's not importing inside folder Organizar.

docker exec -ti photoprism photoprism import '/photoprism/import'

Here's the output:

INFO[2023-06-12T22:23:27Z] config: case-insensitive file system detected 
INFO[2023-06-12T22:23:27Z] Become a member today, support our mission and enjoy our member benefits! 💎 
INFO[2023-06-12T22:23:27Z] Visit https://www.photoprism.app/membership to learn more. 
INFO[2023-06-12T22:23:27Z] migrate: running database migrations         
INFO[2023-06-12T22:23:27Z] **moving media files from /photoprism/import to /photoprism/originals/Organizar** 
INFO[2023-06-12T22:23:27Z] classify: loading nasnet                     
INFO[2023-06-12T22:23:29Z] classify: loading labels from labels.txt     
INFO[2023-06-12T22:23:29Z] import: found no .ppignore file              
INFO[2023-06-12T22:23:29Z] media: 994E28F2-CE74-4010-AD9C-EA567C130793.JPG was taken at 2023-06-09 12:09:21.515 +0000 UTC (meta) 
**INFO[2023-06-12T22:23:30Z] import: moving main jpg file 994E28F2-CE74-4010-AD9C-EA567C130793.JPG to 2023/06/20230609_120921_A72C0CD8.jpg**
**INFO[2023-06-12T22:23:32Z] import: updated main jpg file 2023/06/20230609_120921_A72C0CD8.jpg** 
INFO[2023-06-12T22:24:36Z] completed in 1m9.515612866s  

Do you feel like this is a bug? Or am I missing the point of this --dest parameter when importing?

[lastzero]

@ricardopaiva Thanks for reporting this! An updated development preview build will be available for testing soon.