Sandbox Creation Text Output

[csaaved]

First and foremost, thanks for the sfcc cli! I am new to salesforce and I think it's a pretty awesome tool to have.

I am working on using on Demand sandboxes and running into the following issue:

When I run the following command from the docs:

SANDBOX=sfcc-ci sandbox:create <my-realm> -s -j

I viewed my local variable for SANDBOX, and I found the following text assigned to SANDBOX:

Using realm id my-realm from dw.json of new sandbox 007 for realm my-realm triggered and ongoing. Sandbox id is XXXXX-XXXX-XXXXX, status of sandbox is new. You may use sfcc-ci sandbox:list to check the status of the sandbox. New sandbox host my-realm-007.sandbox.us01.dx.commercecloud.salesforce.com added to list of instances using alias "my-realm-007".

Is this expected? I was under the impression adding the -j flag would output JSON.

Is there some added configuration required in order to output JSON?

Thanks for any help in advance!

[tobiaslohr]

Hi @csaaved, thanks for the kudos and for raising this! You are right, specifying output -j,--json should only write JSON to the output.

I'd therefor treat this as a bug.

One question: which version of the CLI are you using? The latest version does require the realm to be passed as -r,--realm <my-realm> flag. Omitting this flag does attempt to pull the realm from a local dw.json file in the current working directory. If you don't have (or want) that, then please pass the realm like this:

sfcc-ci sandbox:create --realm <my-realm> -s -j

In your case not passing the --realm <my-realm> flag has the command looking for a dw.json file and putting an info message out to the console regardless of the -j,--json flag.

[csaaved]

@tobiaslohr

Thanks for the response!

I was running version 2.3.1. I just updated to 2.4.1.

Running the following command:
SANDBOX = $(sfcc-ci sandbox:create --realm <my-realm> -s -j)

I can see on swagger the sandbox enters the 'creating' stage.

Adding the -D shows sfcc-ci is constantly pinging salesforce during this stage to see if sandbox creation is complete.

Once sandbox enters 'started' stage, I receive the following error:

bash: SANDBOX: command not found

[tobiaslohr]

bash: SANDBOX: command not found

I think, this is an issue with the bash script. Do you properly assign the output the command (sfcc-ci sandbox:create --realm <my-realm> -s -j) to the variable in the bash script and properly access the value afterwards?

[csaaved]

@tobiaslohr
Yup! How embarrassing.

You are correct.

Thanks again!