Need ability to overwrite existing shiny apps on shinyapps.io

[karangattu]

Currently if I deploy an app with a title that does not exist on shinyapps.io, it creates a new app on shinyapps.io.
Now, in between the next deploy if I delete the manifest file(CI build), it will create a new app while appending 1 to the provided title name
If you again delete the manifest file and deploy it again, it fails stating that

Error: shinyapps.io reported an error (calling /v1/applications/): Application exists with name: example_deploy_app101

I couldn't figure out a way to deploy the same app with a new version if the manifest file does not exist locally on the machine.

[pevolution-ahmed]

Facing the same issue here, recently have been working on automating pyshiny app deployment to shinyapps.io using github actions, but faced an issue where it doesn't overwrite the old deployed version, and instead it creates a new version with different name.

I checked the rsconnect '--new' option and '--app-id' option and they both didn't achieve overwriting and replacing the old version with the same name with the new one.

I wonder if this is a sort of limitation from just using rsconnect-python as CLI tool, not as a library we can configure using code?

Here is a demo app with a GitHub action that I talked about, feel free to check it out: https://github.com/pevolution-ahmed/shinyapps-action-demo

[mslynch]

I wonder if this is a sort of limitation from just using rsconnect-python as CLI tool, not as a library we can configure using code?

This is definitely a bug – passing --app-id to redeploy to the same app is a supported use case.

[cesar-vigario-knok]

+1 here
I also found that sometimes the deploy gets stucked in "building - Installing packages" and fails with "[ERROR]: Application deployment failed with error: Unhandled Exception: Child Task 1332846024 error: Unhandled Exception: 599".

A workaround I found was to stop the instance in the shinyapps.io UI and then use the deploy command:
rsconnect deploy shiny name_of_app_folder --name account_name