Incremental Deployment seems to not work when factory folder does not exist

[MartaUch]

Hello,

I was testing situation when there is no factory file and IncrementalDeployment and DeployGlobalParams are True. View on the Repos: I would expect that new file will be created based on: But I'm receiving the following error:

Best regards Marta

[NowinskiK]

I can't reproduce the issue:

Check this example: https://github.com/Azure-Player/azure.datafactory.tools/blob/6844dee2f81264cb1e9a345970c42e5ef890299f/adhoc/issue-195/test-195.ps1#L14C1-L27C1

[MartaUch]

Thank you very much for checking :) Please correct me if I'm wrong, you actually have a folder called "factory", but it's empty. In this case you check in your code if there are no files, then create a new one and proceed with incremental deployment.

In my case (Azure Devops) I don't have a folder at all in the repository. I can't avoid that, because even if I create the empty folder and later build the artifact, this folder will not be present, it just disappears. I checked it once again and still the same issue: I'm not sure what else I'm missing.

[NowinskiK]

Got'ya! Yes, I had a folder but no file. The error is when you don't have a folder. ok.

[MartaUch]

Hi :) I have one additional question regarding this bug. Let's assume it is fixed and new file is created to keep information about the incremental deployment global parameter, while there are already existing global parameters in the ADF instance. Will they be removed/overwritten after deployment or global parameter for incremental deployment will be just added without touching existing parameters?

[NowinskiK]

All global parameters are being deployed as a one consistent object, so will be overwritten.