Retrieve Metadata error - End of input at line 4 column 39 path $[0].createdByName

[Paul McMurrugh]

1. force-app → Illuminated Cloud → Retrieve Metadata…

Error

End of input at line 4 column 39 path $[0].createdByName

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[Scott Wells]

Hi. Can you please enable debug logging for Metadata Retrieval and Salesforce DX, reproduce the issue, and attach your idea.log file for review?

[Paul McMurrugh]

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[Scott Wells]

Thanks. I’m not sure why that’s happening, but I think I can provide a reasonable (hopefully one-time) workaround:

1. Open the configuration directory for the host IDE:
   https://intellij-support.jetbrains.com/hc/en-us/articles/206544519-Directories-used-by-the-IDE-to-store-settings-caches-plugins-and-logs
2. Remove the illuminatedCloud2/cache/<yourConnectionName> directory. If you’d like to provide more diagnostic data, you could archive and provide the contents of that directory before deleting. It’s just a list (no contents) of the metadata in org, but no issues if you’d prefer not to do so, though.
3. Try to retrieve metadata again.

I’m not sure why that file isn’t being parsed properly. Seeing it myself would help. I’ll also update IC2 to recover gracefully if it can’t parse that file, evicting the file-based cache and repopulating it (which is basically what you’re doing explicitly above).

[Paul McMurrugh]

That seems to have done the trick, thanks!

[Scott Wells]

Graceful recovery via defensive handling of such a situation delivered in 2.2.8.9.

[Scott Wells]

Removing component: IntelliJ IDEA (automated comment)