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Why does `aio rt action create` always throw error `Provide a valid path for ACTION`?

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January 10, 2025
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I tried

aio rt action create generic index.js

aio rt action create generic ./actions/index.js

aio rt action create generic ../index.js

aio rt action create generic ~/code/project/actions/generic.js

everytime it throws error

Error: failed to create the action: Provide a valid path for ACTION
 ›    specify --verbose flag for more information

What is the correct syntax to create action to existing aio project?

Best answer by purplecabbage

If you want to add a new action to your app builder project the command is:

aio app add action

This will prompt you for some info and add generic action code to your project that you can modify and deploy with aio app deploy | aio app run

M

moritzr36359277

Adobe Employee

Hello,

Just as a side note, in case you are in a valid App Builder project, created with

aio app init

then you can simply run

aio app deploy

and this will deploy all actions configured in your app.config.yaml (the runtimeManifest may be located in an included configuration file, typically ext.config.yaml)

Now, if you still want to create an action through the aio rt create command, you must ensure the action file exists, could you try to run commands

ls <path_to_my_action>

to ensure the action file exists before running the aio rt create command

P

purplecabbage

Adobe Employee

I expect `aio runtime action create` does not do what you are expecting. This low-level command 'creates' the action in the Runtime environment, locally you are expected to have the code already.

aio rt action create ACTIONNAME [ACTIONPATH] [--cert <value>] [--key <value>] [--apiversion <value>] [--apihost <value>] [-u

    <value>] [-i] [--debug <value>] [-v] [--version] [--help] [-p <value>] [--copy <value>] [-e <value>] [--web-secure <value>

    --web true|yes|false|no|raw] [-P <value>] [-E <value>] [-t <value>] [-m <value>] [-l <value>] [-c <value>] [--kind <value>]

    [-a <value>] [-A <value>] [--sequence <value>] [--docker <value>] [--main <value>] [--binary] [--json]

// actionMain.js

async function main (params) {
  return {
    statusCode: 200,
    body: {
      message: 'Hello, world!'
    }
  }
}

`aio rt action create myAction ./actionMain.js`
Will deploy this action code.

P

purplecabbage

Accepted solution

Adobe Employee

If you want to add a new action to your app builder project the command is:

aio app add action

This will prompt you for some info and add generic action code to your project that you can modify and deploy with aio app deploy | aio app run

P

parussel

Adobe Employee

I wonder why does Adobe documentation still says to use

aio rt:action:create test first-function.js

https://developer.adobe.com/app-builder/docs/guides/runtime_guides/creating-actions

Because this command is for action code that already exists and provides a path for that use case. The add action command is for adding generic code that you will modify down the road.

rxraj

@sarav_prakash

I have reviewed the developer documentation that reference you have shared

https://developer.adobe.com/app-builder/docs/guides/runtime_guides/creating-actions.

From my understanding, the action path error occurs when the action file is not found in the local project setup directory system.

error: failed to create the action: Provide a valid path for ACTION

I successfully created the action by running the following command in the project root directory:

aio rt action create generic-one ./actions/generic/index.js

Additionally, I was able to invoke the action via the command line using this command:

aio rt:action:invoke generic-one --param name "Vishhal" --result

Finally, we can link this action to a web-enabled route or schedule it to run at specific intervals by defining the trigger and rule in the `app.config.yaml` file.

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