Execute force namespace commands from plugin

[keirbowden]

Do you want to request a feature or report a bug?

Request a feature

What is the expected behavior?

Is it likely that we'll be able to execute commands from other namespaces as part of our plugins? For example, I'd like to be have a command that carries out some processing (e.g. to generate a package.xml) and then execute force:mdapi:retrieve. At the moment I'm using node scripts that carry out the processing and then executes sfdx, but that means the two items are a bit more independent of each other than I'd like.

This wouldn't be something that I'd want to do for every deployment, so I'm assuming that hooks wouldn't be the right solution, but don't really know anything about hooks so could easily be wrong!

[amphro]

Thanks for the request. Yes, I agree that command hooks is the right path and is on our roadmap, but no ETA.

[clairebianchi]

@keirbowden Just wanted to give you an update that we are working on hooks in the next quarter and they should be available by Trailhead DX, if not sooner.

[yippie]

@clairebianchi is there any update on this? Just looking for an update as it would be super useful