Having issues with metadata API

[max1204]

I'm trying to retrieve the metadata from the metadata API and in simple_salesforce deploy function is available in class Salesforce but not retrieve if if I try to use the retrieve function in metadata module it needs a async process ID but I thought that will be generate after I put the request for retrieve but it doesn't work I also tried to pass an empty value in that but I get error

File "/usr/local/lib/python3.10/site-packages/simple_salesforce/metadata.py", line 214, in __getattr__ self._client.get_type('ns0:' + item), File "/usr/local/lib/python3.10/site-packages/zeep/client.py", line 174, in get_type return self.wsdl.types.get_type(name) File "/usr/local/lib/python3.10/site-packages/zeep/xsd/schema.py", line 138, in get_type return self._get_instance(qname, "get_type", "type") File "/usr/local/lib/python3.10/site-packages/zeep/xsd/schema.py", line 236, in _get_instance raise last_exception File "/usr/local/lib/python3.10/site-packages/zeep/xsd/schema.py", line 231, in _get_instance return method(qname) File "/usr/local/lib/python3.10/site-packages/zeep/xsd/schema.py", line 501, in get_type return self._get_component(qname, self._types, "type") File "/usr/local/lib/python3.10/site-packages/zeep/xsd/schema.py", line 530, in _get_component raise exceptions.LookupError( zeep.exceptions.LookupError: No type 'get_retrieved_file' in namespace http://soap.sforce.com/2006/04/metadata. Available types are: {http://soap.sforce.com/2006/04/metadata}CancelDeployResult, {http://soap.sforce.com/2006/04/metadata}DeployResult, {http://soap.sforce.com/2006/04/metadata}DeployDetails, {http://soap.sforce.com/2006/04/metadata}DeployMessage, {http://soap.sforce.com/2006/04/metadata}DeployProblemType, {http://soap.sforce.com/2006/04/metadata}RetrieveResult, {http://soap.sforce.com/2006/04/metadata}FileProperties, {http://soap.sforce.com/2006/04/metadata}ManageableState, {http://soap.sforce.com/2006/04/metadata}RetrieveMessage, {http://soap.sforce.com/2006/04/metadata}RetrieveStatus, {http://soap.sforce.com/2006/04/metadata}RunTestsResult,

[hkajiwara]

It looks like async_process_id param is not needed for SfdcMetadataApi.retrieve(). In addition, deployRequest + async_process_id should be removed from the metadata endpoint for retrieve. I'll submit a PR later.

[max1204]

@hkajiwara I have the code changes ready on my local I tested the retrieval of a couple of components from salesforce sandbox I can create a PR.

[max1204]

Thanks but I already made the changes and then deployed and retrieved from sandox and created a PR

[yippie]

How does nobody need retrieve? If there is deploy, there should be retrieve.

I can clearly see that retrieve is not exposed on the main object and even if it was, the async_process_id is wrong and breaks it.