Updating RemoteProxy with Tooling API fails with deserialization error

[mrichmon12]

Summary

Receive an error when trying to update RemoteProxy object through force:data:record:update

Steps To Reproduce:

1. Attempt to update a RemoteProxy through the force:data:record:update

sfdx force:data:record:update \
    --targetusername DEV \
    --sobjecttype RemoteProxy \
    --sobjectid 0rpf2000000EJMtAAO \
    --usetoolingapi \
    -v "Metadata='{\"disableProtocolSecurity\": false,\"isActive\": true,\"url\": \"https://www.example.com\",\"urls\": null,\"description\": null}'" 

Expected result

RemoteProxy is updated in the target org.

Actual result

ERROR: Cannot deserialize instance of complexvalue from null value null or request may be missing a required field.

Additional information

The Metadata format used above matches the format that is output from a query of the RemoteProxy object, and it does work fine via the Tooling API directly outside of the field-value-pair formatting change specified in the CLI reference.

Salesforce DX Trailblazer Community post

SFDX CLI Version
sfdx-cli/7.2.0-179c9078fc linux-x64 node-v10.15.3

SFDX plugin Version
@oclif/plugin-commands 1.2.2 (core)
@oclif/plugin-help 2.1.6 (core)
@oclif/plugin-not-found 1.2.2 (core)
@oclif/plugin-plugins 1.7.8 (core)
@oclif/plugin-update 1.3.9 (core)
@oclif/plugin-warn-if-update-available 1.7.0 (core)
@oclif/plugin-which 1.0.3 (core)
@salesforce/sfdx-trust 3.0.2 (core)
analytics 1.1.2 (core)
generator 1.1.0 (core)
salesforcedx 45.9.1 (core)
├─ force-language-services 45.9.0 (core)
└─ salesforce-alm 45.12.0 (core)

OS and version:
Windows 10 Enterprise

[danielepiccone]

I am getting the same issue when trying to toggle a flow with

sfdx force:data:record:update -u sandbox -t -s FlowDefinition -i 300b000000008ohAAA -v "Metadata='{\"activeVersionNumber\": 2, \"description\": null, \"masterLabel\": null, \"urls\": null}'"

I figured out this call ends up not sending the correct payload.

Apparently the JSON is sent as a plain string instead of being properly parsed.

I managed to get it to work by patching /node_modules/salesforce-alm/dist/lib/data/dataRecordUpdateCommand.js but I cannot find the source code for this repository online to open a PR.

SFDX CLI Version
sfdx-cli/7.36.0-b1c4e9c7c8 darwin-x64 node-v10.15.3

SFDX plugin Version
no plugins

OS and version:
Darwin / OSX 10.14.6

[mshanemc]

@danielepiccone that code is OSS and lives here: https://github.com/salesforcecli/plugin-data if you would like to fix it.

[uip-robot-zz]

This issue has been linked to a new work item: W-10290524

[iowillhoit]

This issue has been fixed and included in today's stable release 7.138.1. Update to the latest sfdx to get these changes. Release notes can be viewed here. Thank you!