trying to publish an ipm module to a private ipm registry and having the following error

[evshvarov]

zpm:USER>publish demo-loan-frontend

[USER|demo-loan-frontend] Initialize START
[USER|demo-loan-frontend] Initialize SUCCESS
[USER|demo-loan-frontend] Reload START (/home/irisowner/dev/)
[USER|demo-loan-frontend] Reload SUCCESS
[demo-loan-frontend] Module object refreshed.
[USER|demo-loan-frontend] Validate START
[USER|demo-loan-frontend] Validate SUCCESS
[USER|demo-loan-frontend] Compile START
[USER|demo-loan-frontend] Compile SUCCESS
[USER|demo-loan-frontend] Activate START
[USER|demo-loan-frontend] Configure START
[USER|demo-loan-frontend] Configure SUCCESS
[USER|demo-loan-frontend] Activate SUCCESS
[USER|demo-loan-frontend] Publish START
[USER|demo-loan-frontend] Package START
[demo-loan-frontend] Package FAILURE
[demo-loan-frontend] Publish FAILURE
ERROR! Can not export '{$CSPDIR}LOAN' type in %RO format for item ''.
zpm:USER>

Here is the module.xml:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<Export generator="Cache" version="25">
  <Document name="demo-loan-frontend.ZPM">
    <Module>
      <Name>demo-loan-frontend</Name>
      <Version>1.0.0</Version>
      <Description>Frontend for Demo-Loan Interoperability case</Description>
      <Keywords>REST,Frontend,React,Lovable</Keywords>
      <Packaging>module</Packaging>
      <FileCopy Name="dist/" Target="{$cspdir}loan/"/>
      <WebApplication 
  Name="/loan"
  NameSpace="{$namespace}"
  Path="{$cspdir}loan"
  Recurse="1"
  ServeFiles="1"
  CookiePath="{$cspdir}loan"
  UseCookies="2"
/>
      <SourcesRoot>src</SourcesRoot>
    </Module>
  </Document>
</Export>

[evshvarov]

This is the repo to reproduce: https://github.com/evshvarov/credit-app-maker
Build and run docker container.
and try to publish to any ipm registry

[isc-dchui]

There isn't a dist/ directory in the GitHub repo but it's referenced by the <FileCopy>. What is supposed to be in there?

[evshvarov]

@isc-dchui dist/ is in .gitignore as it contains build data artifacts of 'npm build' command as it is a react frontend app. I can add it if you want so it will be in the repo but it is not recommended by all frontend builders to push it to the repo.

[evshvarov]

@isc-dchui anyways, made the push of dist/ to the repo. Now can be reproducible just by build docker image and publish to the repo.

[isc-dchui]

Ok thank you! I was able to reproduce the problem and isolate it to the Path="{$cspdir}loan/" line in the <WebApplication> in module.xml.

The workaround is to remove that line for now and either

1. writing custom code to set the path using an <Invoke> or
2. using a CPF merge file to configure the web application (https://docs.intersystems.com/iris20252/csp/docbook/DocBook.UI.Page.cls?KEY=RACS_actions)

[evshvarov]

Thank you @isc-dchui !
I used another workaround - used deprecated element:

<CSPApplication 
  Url="/loan"
  SourcePath="/dist"
  DeployPath="${cspdir}loan"
  CookiePath="${cspdir}loan"
  Recurse="1"
  ServeFiles="1"
  UseCookies="2"
/>

Which installs /loan Web Application and copies files from /dist to /${cspdir}loan. And publish command works with no errors