How To Generate package.xml Through Force.com Migration Tool and Change Sets
Prerequisites: Force.com Migration Tool [ANT]. This is one of the popular deployment tools used for migrating Salesforce metadata from one org/sandbox to another. Check this link for Installation details if you don’t already have Force.com Migration Tool. https://developer.salesforce.com/docs/atlas.en-us.daas.meta/daas/forcemigrationtool_install.htm
Follow below steps to generate package.xml
- Go to Setup and create a Change Set in your sandbox. You cannot test this feature with Developer edition since Developer edition doesn’t come with any sandboxes
- Copy below script and paste it into build.xml file
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<project name="Salesforce Retrieval Package" default="" basedir="." xmlns:sf="antlib:com.salesforce" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:schemaLocation="antlib:com.salesforce"> <taskdef resource="net/sf/antcontrib/antlib.xml"/> <property file="build.properties" /> <property file="secret.properties" /> <property environment="env" /> <property name="maxPoll" value="1000" /> <property name="defaultPackageFolder" value="package" /> <property name="devPackageFolder" value="package-dev" /> <property name="salesforceUrl" value="https://test.salesforce.com" /> <target name="-prompt" unless="hidePrompt"> <input message="${promptMessage}" validargs="y,n" addproperty="do.delete" /> <condition property="do.abort"> <equals arg1="n" arg2="${do.delete}" /> </condition> <fail if="do.abort">Build aborted by user.</fail> </target> <macrodef name="retrieve-cs"> <attribute name="folder" /> <attribute name="prompt" default="true" /> <sequential> <condition property="hidePrompt"> <or> <isset property="jenkins"/> <equals arg1="@{prompt}" arg2="false" /> </or> </condition> <input message="Please enter the name of the change set:" addproperty="source.changeSetName" /> <property name="promptMessage" value="Are you sure you want to retrieve a change set from the following org?${line.separator} salesforceUrl: ${salesforceUrl}${line.separator} username: ${username}${line.separator} changeSet: ${source.changeSetName}${line.separator} folder: @{folder}${line.separator}" /> <antcall target="-prompt" /> <mkdir dir="@{folder}" /> <sf:retrieve username="${username}" password="${password}" serverurl="${salesforceUrl}" maxPoll="${maxPoll}" retrieveTarget="@{folder}" packageNames="${source.changeSetName}" /> </sequential> </macrodef> <target name="retrieve-cs" description="Retrieves package metadata components from a specified change set in the source org."> <!--<retrieve-cs folder="${defaultPackageFolder}" />--> <retrieve-cs folder="changeSet" /> </target> </project> |
- Above code has operation called ‘retrieve-cs’, that retrieves Change Set components from your Sandbox. Make sure username and password variables in build.properties are same as in build.xml
- Run ‘ant retrieve-cs’ command in command prompt/terminal. Enter the change set name when prompted and confirm the operation. Script should create a new folder called changeSet and stashes the components from Change Set in to the same. If everything is okay, you should see that build is successful like below
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Happy Coding!
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