🐛 Bug Report: Attribute creation timed out.

[pingu2k4]

👟 Reproduction steps

Running appwrite push collections

I synced from one project, and attempted to push to a new one. I test on one of them, make my changes within appwrite, and then deploy by pushing the same changes to a different project Id. It failed half way through though.

👍 Expected behavior

not crash

👎 Actual Behavior

CLI Error:

Error: Attribute creation timed out.
    at createAttributes (C:\Users\pingu\AppData\Roaming\npm\node_modules\appwrite-cli\lib\commands\push.js:889:15)
    at async pushCollection (C:\Users\pingu\AppData\Roaming\npm\node_modules\appwrite-cli\lib\commands\push.js:1425:13)

The very first time this ran, I had the following output in my github actions:

ℹ Info: Checking for changes ...
ℹ Info: Collection PollOptions does not exist in the project. Creating ... 
ℹ Info: Collection PollSuggestions does not exist in the project. Creating ... 
ℹ Info: Collection PollVotes does not exist in the project. Creating ... 
ℹ Info: Collection Polls does not exist in the project. Creating ... 
ℹ Info: Pushing collection Polls ( 676a27c20025b8a268[9](https://github.com/PinguApps/Wrevo/actions/runs/12801367610/job/35690743093#step:6:10)b - 677d650400147922cdf8 ) attributes
ℹ Info: For detailed error pass the --verbose or --report flag
✗ Error: Attribute creation timed out.
Error: Process completed with exit code 1.

And then running it a second time produced the following:

ℹ Info: Checking for changes ...
ℹ Info: List of applied changes
                                                                                                   
  Key                                         │ Action │ Reason                                    
 ─────────────────────────────────────────────┼────────┼────────────────────────────────────────── 
  PollOptions in Polls (677d650400147[9](https://github.com/PinguApps/Wrevo/actions/runs/12801367610/job/35690871244#step:6:10)22cdf8) │ adding │ Field isn't present on the remote server  
                                                                                                   
ℹ Info: List of applied changes
                                                                                                           
  Key                                                 │ Action │ Reason                                    
 ─────────────────────────────────────────────────────┼────────┼────────────────────────────────────────── 
  i_StartTime in Polls (677d650400[14](https://github.com/PinguApps/Wrevo/actions/runs/12801367610/job/35690871244#step:6:15)7922cdf8)         │ adding │ Field isn't present on the remote server  
 ─────────────────────────────────────────────────────┼────────┼────────────────────────────────────────── 
  i_EndTime in Polls (677d650400147922cdf8)           │ adding │ Field isn't present on the remote server  
 ─────────────────────────────────────────────────────┼────────┼────────────────────────────────────────── 
  i_StartTime_EndTime in Polls (677d650400147922cdf8) │ adding │ Field isn't present on the remote server  
                                                                                                           
ℹ Info: Pushing collection Polls ( 676a27c[20](https://github.com/PinguApps/Wrevo/actions/runs/12801367610/job/35690871244#step:6:21)025b8a2689b - 677d650400147922cdf8 ) attributes
ℹ Info: For detailed error pass the --verbose or --report flag
✗ Error: Attribute creation timed out.
Error: Process completed with exit code 1.

I am running on a linux github host, but have also just run with --verbose --report on my windows machine and this was the output:

ℹ Info: Checking for changes ...
ℹ Info: List of applied changes

  Key                                         │ Action │ Reason
 ─────────────────────────────────────────────┼────────┼──────────────────────────────────────────
  PollOptions in Polls (677d650400147922cdf8) │ adding │ Field isn't present on the remote server

ℹ Info: List of applied changes

  Key                                                 │ Action │ Reason
 ─────────────────────────────────────────────────────┼────────┼──────────────────────────────────────────
  i_StartTime in Polls (677d650400147922cdf8)         │ adding │ Field isn't present on the remote server
 ─────────────────────────────────────────────────────┼────────┼──────────────────────────────────────────
  i_EndTime in Polls (677d650400147922cdf8)           │ adding │ Field isn't present on the remote server
 ─────────────────────────────────────────────────────┼────────┼──────────────────────────────────────────
  i_StartTime_EndTime in Polls (677d650400147922cdf8) │ adding │ Field isn't present on the remote server

ℹ Info: Pushing collection Polls ( 676a27c20025b8a2689b - 677d650400147922cdf8 ) attributes
ℹ Info: To report this error you can:
 - Create a support ticket in our Discord server https://appwrite.io/discord
 - Create an issue in our Github
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✗ Error:
 Stack Trace:

Error: Attribute creation timed out.
    at createAttributes (C:\Users\pingu\AppData\Roaming\npm\node_modules\appwrite-cli\lib\commands\push.js:889:15)
    at async pushCollection (C:\Users\pingu\AppData\Roaming\npm\node_modules\appwrite-cli\lib\commands\push.js:1425:13)

🎲 Appwrite version

Appwrite Cloud

💻 Operating system

Windows

🧱 Your Environment

CLI version: 6.1.0
Operation System: Windows_NT
Appwrite version: 1.6.1
Is Cloud: Yes

👀 Have you spent some time to check if this issue has been raised before?

• I checked and didn't find similar issue

🏢 Have you read the Code of Conduct?

• I have read the Code of Conduct

[stnguyen90]

@pingu2k4 thanks for raising this issue! 🙏🏼 It does look like there are a couple issues with the CLI:

First, some of the API calls to create attributes are not awaited so the create can silently fail. For example:

sdk-for-cli/lib/commands/push.js

Line 556 in 91bea6e

return databasesCreateRelationshipAttribute({

Second, the CLI waits for all attributes to exist:

sdk-for-cli/lib/commands/push.js

Lines 882 to 886 in 91bea6e

	const result = await awaitPools.expectAttributes(
	collection['databaseId'],
	collection['$id'],
	collection.attributes.map(attribute => attribute.key)
	);

but child side relationships won't be created

sdk-for-cli/lib/commands/push.js

Lines 877 to 879 in 91bea6e

	if (attribute.side !== 'child') {
	await createAttribute(collection['databaseId'], collection['$id'], attribute);
	}

For the second issue, I modified:

sdk-for-cli/lib/commands/push.js

Line 885 in 91bea6e

collection.attributes.map(attribute => attribute.key)

to

collection.attributes.filter(attribute => attribute.side !== 'child').map(attribute => attribute.key)

to fix the issue. I'll escalate this internally to see if we can get this fixed.

[pingu2k4]

Thank you so much for this. :)

[stnguyen90]

Fixed now as part of 6.2.2