Follow symlinks when creating packages

[Winston Liu (winstliu)]

I don't see any reason in the code or the blame why lstatSync (which does not follow symlinks) was chosen over statSync (which does). Now create will follow the symlinks and include the destination paths in the package rather than attempting to only include the symlink, which would crash with EISDIR.

Tested this out locally and it works fine - no more EISDIRs, and the Marketplace validated the extension successfully.

Fixes #265

[Marco Pelegrini (marcopelegrini)]

Please merge this

[Engin Polat (polatengin)]

thanks, I like it 👍

[Preston Rodriguez (PrestonCS)]

why is this still not implemented?

[elzik]

I am facing the same issue and would be grateful if this could be merged.

[Simon (h45h74x)]

Please merge :)

[Peter (petero-dk)]

This fix also works for making the CLI compatible with projects using PNPM, until it is merged and deployed you can manually fix your locally installed version by

running pnpm list -g tfx-cli --depth=0 to get the installed location

Then opening
_build\exec\extension\init.js and _build\exec\extension\_lib\merger.js

and doing a search and replace for fs.lstat with fs.stat

[Nate Baymiller (symnatbay)]

hello? why is this being neglected?

[Winston Liu (winstliu)]

Tarun Ramsinghani (@tarunramsinghani), could I get some eyes on this? It's been more than a year.

[Venipa]

pnpm patch for 0.23.4:
place in patches/tfx-cli.patch
File pnpm-workspace.yml:

patchedDependencies:
  tfx-cli: patches/tfx-cli.patch

File patches/tfx-cli.patch:

diff --git a/_build/exec/extension/_lib/merger.js b/_build/exec/extension/_lib/merger.js
index 79e1a63df303f1a76276d7bdf4ef6557b1acd463..44bae1819c8375e989070fb267ab616e06a09b75 100644
--- a/_build/exec/extension/_lib/merger.js
+++ b/_build/exec/extension/_lib/merger.js
@@ -188,7 +188,7 @@ class Merger {
                     for (let i = partial["files"].length - 1; i >= 0; --i) {
                         const fileDecl = partial["files"][i];
                         const fsPath = path.join(this.settings.root, fileDecl.path);
-                        if (fs.lstatSync(fsPath).isDirectory()) {
+                        if (fs.statSync(fsPath).isDirectory()) {
                             Array.prototype.splice.apply(partial["files"], [i, 1].concat(this.pathToFileDeclarations(fsPath, this.settings.root, fileDecl)));
                         }
                     }
@@ -304,7 +304,7 @@ class Merger {
      */
     pathToFileDeclarations(fsPath, root, fileDecl) {
         let files = [];
-        if (fs.lstatSync(fsPath).isDirectory()) {
+        if (fs.statSync(fsPath).isDirectory()) {
             trace.debug("Path '%s` is a directory. Adding all contained files (recursive).", fsPath);
             fs.readdirSync(fsPath).forEach(dirChildPath => {
                 trace.debug("-- %s", dirChildPath);
@@ -355,12 +355,12 @@ class Merger {
                     trace.debug(`Found task.json: ${mainTaskJsonPath}`);
                 }
                 // Check for task.json in direct child directories (version folders)
-                if (fs.existsSync(absoluteTaskPath) && fs.lstatSync(absoluteTaskPath).isDirectory()) {
+                if (fs.existsSync(absoluteTaskPath) && fs.statSync(absoluteTaskPath).isDirectory()) {
                     try {
                         const childDirs = fs.readdirSync(absoluteTaskPath);
                         for (const childDir of childDirs) {
                             const childPath = path.join(absoluteTaskPath, childDir);
-                            if (fs.lstatSync(childPath).isDirectory()) {
+                            if (fs.statSync(childPath).isDirectory()) {
                                 const childTaskJsonPath = path.join(childPath, "task.json");
                                 if (fs.existsSync(childTaskJsonPath)) {
                                     contributionTaskJsonPaths.push(childTaskJsonPath);
diff --git a/_build/exec/extension/init.js b/_build/exec/extension/init.js
index 9d913e7f8823ffc632e98aa711ba903c5cf0d73b..0b60a2ce9b6c21e18aa300bdf0793e09cd803b0f 100644
--- a/_build/exec/extension/init.js
+++ b/_build/exec/extension/init.js
@@ -366,7 +366,7 @@ class ExtensionInit extends extBase.ExtensionBase {
         return files.length === 0;
     }
     async checkIsFolder(folderPath) {
-        const lstat = await (0, util_1.promisify)(fs.lstat)(folderPath);
+        const lstat = await (0, util_1.promisify)(fs.stat)(folderPath);
         return lstat.isDirectory();
     }
     async checkFolderAccessible(folderPath) {
@@ -386,7 +386,7 @@ class ExtensionInit extends extBase.ExtensionBase {
         const files = await (0, util_1.promisify)(fs.readdir)(folderPath);
         for (const file of files) {
             const fullName = path.join(folderPath, file);
-            const stat = await (0, util_1.promisify)(fs.lstat)(fullName);
+            const stat = await (0, util_1.promisify)(fs.stat)(fullName);
             if (stat.isDirectory()) {
                 await this.deleteFolderContents(fullName);
                 await (0, util_1.promisify)(fs.rmdir)(fullName);