Not able to create project using ServiceNow SDK

[Aditya Kumar6]

Hello All,

Like all of you i have been eagerly waiting to try out the new ServiceNow SDK released in the Washington release.  However i have stumbled upon an error while using and i cannot find why this is happening.

After Installing the SDK on my local machine i managed to connect to my PDI.

I had been following the video of the SDK demo by the Dev program : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7UWC4Pc5Q3E&t=1067s .

After the installation completed i tried to create a new project on my PDI instance (Note: I had successfully managed to connect to my PDI in the CLI using the SDK command lets) however, when typing in the command:

C:\Windows\System32>now-sdk create dem_data x_1116108_dem_data --sampleTable

i am getting the following error:

[now-sdk] Bootstrapping a new ServiceNow application project...
[now-sdk] Attempting to log into instance https://dev183443.service-now.com as admin.
[now-sdk] Generating application files...
× An error occured while running fluent#writing
[now-sdk] [ERROR] Application creation failed due to:
AssertionError [ERR_ASSERTION]: Trying to copy from a source that does not exist: C:\Program Files (x86)\Nodist\bin\node_modules\@servicenow\sdk\node_modules\@servicenow\sdk-cli-core\dist\generator\templates\packageTemplate.json

I looked for the file mentioned in this error and i can see it on my local machine : 

Package files under @serviceNow module

The file looks something like this :

{
    "name": "<%= projectName %>",
    "version": "<%= projectVersion %>",
    "description": "<%= description %>",
    "license": "UNLICENSED",
    "contributors": [],
    "scripts": {
        "build": "now-sdk build",
        "deploy": "now-sdk deploy"
    },
    "now": {
        "scope": "<%= scopeName %>",
        "scopeId": "<%= sysid %>",
        "moduleDir": "src"
    },
    "devDependencies": {
        "@servicenow/glide": "25.0.1",
        "eslint": "8.50.0",
        "@servicenow/eslint-plugin-sdk-app-plugin": "*"
    }
}

Has anyone else faced this while working with the new SDK?  Any pointers highly appreciated 🙂

[Ivan Betev]

Hi @Aditya Kumar6 ,

File is fine, you don't need to change anything there.

* Can you reach the folder under the command line window where you execute the create command?

* Try to uninstall nodist and all other nodejs versions and make a clean installation and try it again.

I've just tested it under my VS Code and it worked without an issue.

Regards, Ivan

[btippens2]

Hi @Aditya Kumar6, 

One thing that happened to me sometimes is I didn't have root admin by default on my device so could not access all directories. Reinstalling node, etc didn't fix that for me. I still had the issues. Once I added 'sudo' at the beginning of my commands, they worked, although I didn't run into the exact issue you did here, I had some that were similar enough to suggest it. Sudo runs the command as admin. 

Good Luck
Bryan 

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