CTRL+ALT+F5(RAD Development) = Delete data from extension!!!

[albgen]

Dears,

This is a major issue i have. I'm trying to deploy am extension(hopefully on a test/dev environment) and wanted to use RAD publishing without debugging for faster experience.
Everytime i try to do it, it will just delete all the data from the extension. It seems it is unpublishing/uninstalling and deleting all the data and than publishing again.
I'm on version 15.0.19.45509 of AL Compiler.

thanks
Internal work item: AB#566561

[dannoe]

What does your "schemaUpdateMode" inside launch.json/workspace settings say?

[albgen]

"schemaUpdateMode": "ForceSync"

Just to be clear; with a CTRL+F5, everything works and nothing is deleted.

[kalberes]

RAD only publishes differences. It takes the changes as a compilation unit and the rest of the original code base is self referenced, with other original references. It is an AL compilation step and thus a publishing operation. I will take it as a bug for now, that we either fix it or we skip ForceSync on RAD

[albgen]

The important part is to not have the data deleted. Hopefully nobody is using rad on production(i guess) but it any case it's just not normal to delete the data.

[kalberes]

RAD is a developer scenario from VsCode only

[kalberes]

@albgen

Can we have more details on this? What have you changed. Since I have been trying to repro and it seems to work.

[albgen]

I restored a production environment on a development environment and than just ctrl+alt+f5.
Is there any log or something i can enable so i can get more info?

[kalberes]

For RAD you need to have a baseline of an app published, then you do changes in your code base for that app and issue a Ctrl Alt F5. The changes can be seen in the rad.json if you just do a Ctrl Shift B (build) before doing a Ctrl ALt F5.

I would have done a Ctrl F5 in your scenario first. Although it is weird that with no RAD state you lost data.
What if you do the same with a Ctrl F5, (restore and Ctrl F5)?