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rt package delete --recursive fails for packages with feed-backed triggers (wrong field name in recursivelyDeletePackage) #431

Description

@akshitjain

Bug report

aio rt package delete --recursive fails to delete a package when one of its actions is bound (via a rule) to a feed-backed trigger (e.g. /whisk.system/alarms/interval, /whisk.system/alarms/alarm).

Observed error

Error: failed to delete the package: Missing mandatory trigger parameter from options.

Root cause

In src/commands/runtime/package/delete.js, recursivelyDeletePackage() builds the trigger reference for each rule with the wrong field name:

const ruleData = {
  ruleName: rule.name,
  trigger: {
    namespace: rule.trigger.path,
    triggerName: rule.trigger.name   // <-- should be `name`, not `triggerName`
  }
}
...
deleteEntitiesPromises.push(ow.triggers.delete(actionRule.trigger), ow.rules.delete(actionRule.ruleName))

This object is passed straight into ow.triggers.delete(...), which resolves to @adobe/aio-lib-runtime's wrapped Triggers.delete() (src/triggers.js):

async delete (options) {
  const retTrigger = await this.owclient.triggers.get(options) // succeeds: raw openwhisk client accepts `triggerName` as a fallback identifier
  if (retTrigger.annotations) {
    for (const annotation of retTrigger.annotations) {
      if (annotation.key === 'feed') {
        await this.owclient.feeds.delete({ name: annotation.value, trigger: options.name }) // <-- reads options.name specifically
      }
    }
  }
  return this.owclient.triggers.delete(options)
}

Since the passed-in object only has triggerName (not name), options.name is undefined. This is then passed to openwhisk-client-js's Feeds.feed(), which validates the trigger param and throws:

if (!this.triggerName(options)) {
  throw new Error(messages.MISSING_FEED_TRIGGER_ERROR) // 'Missing mandatory trigger parameter from options.'
}

Impact

Because Promise.all(deleteEntitiesPromises) rejects as soon as any one deletion throws, the trailing ow.packages.delete(pkg) call in recursivelyDeletePackage never executes. This means:

  1. The package itself is never deleted when this happens (not just the feed deregistration).
  2. The feed (e.g. the alarms provider registration backing an interval/alarm trigger) is never properly deregistered via this path, since the feeds.delete() call throws before reaching the underlying HTTP call.

Repro steps

  1. Deploy a manifest with an action, a feed-backed trigger, and a rule connecting them, e.g.:
    triggers:
      every-5-min:
        feed: /whisk.system/alarms/interval
        inputs:
          minutes: 5
    rules:
      fire-every-5-min:
        trigger: every-5-min
        action: someAction
  2. aio app deploy (or aio rt trigger create + aio rt rule create directly).
  3. aio rt package delete <packageName> --recursive
  4. Observe: Error: failed to delete the package: Missing mandatory trigger parameter from options.

Suggested fix

In recursivelyDeletePackage, use name instead of triggerName when building the trigger reference:

trigger: {
  namespace: rule.trigger.path,
  name: rule.trigger.name
}

Environment

  • aio-cli-plugin-app: 14.8.1 (observed via aio info)
  • aio-cli: 11.1.2
  • Node: 24.6.0

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