sergen transform has failed for most forms.

[petebrieso]

In my established project (10 months old) a strange new error has suddenly occurred.
First noticed in UserForm.ts (in a deployed project) it was not creating the form correctly. A little digging showed that most of the generated file ServerTypings\Administration.UserForm.ts was missing.
It looks like this

namespace MyProject.Administration {
    export interface UserForm {
    }

    export class UserForm extends Serenity.PrefixedContext {
        static formKey = 'Administration.User';
    }
}

Notice all the editors are missing. I then notice the same was true for 90% of the other forms in that folder.
My local project was still building fine, so I tried a fresh git clone and then was able to reproduce it, BUT my colleague also did a fresh copy and it built correctly for him.
I tried updating sergen to latest 6.0.8.0
If I manually transform with sergen t the same thing happens.
Same if I deleted the generated code first.
I have 2 copies of the project open on my machine, one transforms correctly and one does not.
All deployed versions suddenly have started doing the same thing.

Please help, this is a show-stopping problem.
Project is updated to net6 all dependencies are updated.

[petebrieso]

Found the answer, I think. I had early on added ServerTypings to the .gitignore list which seemed to be fine, by my guess is there's a form that gets used in several places which, if not yet transformed, will break the whole transform process. So I ended up with half-transformed files, not enough to break the build but just enough to bring run-time errors as the forms were not properly created - specifically the editors were missing, so reference to fields on the form would cause an exception.

[rymk14]

hi @petebrieso thanks for sharing. this is helpful.

To fix did you have to start checking in all of the ServerTypings to source control?

We are evaluating if we can stop committing all of these autogenerated Serenity files into git or not. Current we are commiting all wwwroot/esm/* files and all Modules/ServerTypes/* files.

Merge conflicts are starting to be a pain though, so we'd like to stop checking everything into source. And it sounds like you discovered /ServerTypes/ files might be required to check-in?

thanks for your feedback!

[volkanceylan]

ServerTypes should be check in, wwwroot/esm not, as they are build artifacts, just like under bin