Configure IC to work with multiple projects.

[Brooks Johnson]

Hi Scott. I wanted to start breaking up some of my happy soup  projects into multiple unlocked packages. But  I am having some issues trying to make it all work. 

I. created a new IC project with a root directory of src/ 

Then I used the CLI and created two packages in src called core and car_hunter 

If I go to Configure Module and and check the project structure I see src listed under source folders. 

But when I start retrieving metadata from an org I get a directory structure using . rather than /

For example  'objects.Car__c.fields'.I have tried to just mkdir the directories from the CLI but still end up with this same behavior. 

I am wondering if missed a step in configuring IC for this. 

[Scott Wells]

Brooks, the "." you're seeing is a side-effect of IC2 being hosted in IntelliJ IDEA which is fundamentally designed for Java, and Java uses "." as a package component separator. The IDE shows the directory paths that correspond to package paths with ".", but those are really "/"s. You can disable a few Project View options to make it look more like you'd expect, e.g., Flatten Packages and Compact Middle Packages from here:

Generally you'll want your project source root configuration to directly mimic your sfdx-project.json file's package directories, so you'd have a content root corresponding to the project root directory, and within that content root, you'd add each of the package directories as a source root.

Let me know if that doesn't make sense or if it's not working properly after you make these UI config and project config changes.

Regards,

Scott Wells

[Brooks Johnson]

It seems to be working now. I am not sure why but before when I tried to add the package directories to the src content root I would get an error to the effect  that src/core could not intersect src. That seems to have stopped now. But not sure why.

[Scott Wells]

My guess is that you had configured "src" as a source root and then were trying to configure descendants of "src" as source roots as well. You want it to be configured as follows:

• /path/to/projectDir/ - content root
  • src/ - not a content root; not a source root; not a package directory in sfdx-project.json
    • src/core/ - source root
      
    • src/car_hunter/ - source root
    • etc.

Even looking at your sfdx-project.json, you still have "src" as a package directory. You'll want to remove that to avoid overlapping/intersecting package directories/source roots.

Regards,

Scott Wells