import { promises as fs } from 'fs'; import { Command, flags } from '@oclif/command'; import { UserSettings, } from 'n8n-core'; import { INode, } from 'n8n-workflow'; import { ActiveExecutions, CredentialsOverwrites, CredentialTypes, Db, ExternalHooks, IWorkflowBase, IWorkflowExecutionDataProcess, LoadNodesAndCredentials, NodeTypes, WorkflowCredentials, WorkflowHelpers, WorkflowRunner, } from '../src'; import { getLogger, } from '../src/Logger'; import { LoggerProxy, } from 'n8n-workflow'; export class Execute extends Command { static description = '\nExecutes a given workflow'; static examples = [ `$ n8n execute --id=5`, `$ n8n execute --file=workflow.json`, ]; static flags = { help: flags.help({ char: 'h' }), file: flags.string({ description: 'path to a workflow file to execute', }), id: flags.string({ description: 'id of the workflow to execute', }), rawOutput: flags.boolean({ description: 'Outputs only JSON data, with no other text', }), }; async run() { const logger = getLogger(); LoggerProxy.init(logger); const { flags } = this.parse(Execute); // Start directly with the init of the database to improve startup time const startDbInitPromise = Db.init(); // Load all node and credential types const loadNodesAndCredentials = LoadNodesAndCredentials(); const loadNodesAndCredentialsPromise = loadNodesAndCredentials.init(); if (!flags.id && !flags.file) { console.info(`Either option "--id" or "--file" have to be set!`); return; } if (flags.id && flags.file) { console.info(`Either "id" or "file" can be set never both!`); return; } let workflowId: string | undefined; let workflowData: IWorkflowBase | undefined = undefined; if (flags.file) { // Path to workflow is given try { workflowData = JSON.parse(await fs.readFile(flags.file, 'utf8')); } catch (error) { if (error.code === 'ENOENT') { console.info(`The file "${flags.file}" could not be found.`); return; } throw error; } // Do a basic check if the data in the file looks right // TODO: Later check with the help of TypeScript data if it is valid or not if (workflowData === undefined || workflowData.nodes === undefined || workflowData.connections === undefined) { console.info(`The file "${flags.file}" does not contain valid workflow data.`); return; } workflowId = workflowData.id!.toString(); } // Wait till the database is ready await startDbInitPromise; if (flags.id) { // Id of workflow is given workflowId = flags.id; workflowData = await Db.collections!.Workflow!.findOne(workflowId); if (workflowData === undefined) { console.info(`The workflow with the id "${workflowId}" does not exist.`); process.exit(1); } } // Make sure the settings exist await UserSettings.prepareUserSettings(); // Wait till the n8n-packages have been read await loadNodesAndCredentialsPromise; // Load the credentials overwrites if any exist const credentialsOverwrites = CredentialsOverwrites(); await credentialsOverwrites.init(); // Load all external hooks const externalHooks = ExternalHooks(); await externalHooks.init(); // Add the found types to an instance other parts of the application can use const nodeTypes = NodeTypes(); await nodeTypes.init(loadNodesAndCredentials.nodeTypes); const credentialTypes = CredentialTypes(); await credentialTypes.init(loadNodesAndCredentials.credentialTypes); if (!WorkflowHelpers.isWorkflowIdValid(workflowId)) { workflowId = undefined; } // Check if the workflow contains the required "Start" node // "requiredNodeTypes" are also defined in editor-ui/views/NodeView.vue const requiredNodeTypes = ['n8n-nodes-base.start']; let startNode: INode | undefined = undefined; for (const node of workflowData!.nodes) { if (requiredNodeTypes.includes(node.type)) { startNode = node; break; } } if (startNode === undefined) { // If the workflow does not contain a start-node we can not know what // should be executed and with which data to start. console.info(`The workflow does not contain a "Start" node. So it can not be executed.`); return Promise.resolve(); } try { const runData: IWorkflowExecutionDataProcess = { executionMode: 'cli', startNodes: [startNode.name], workflowData: workflowData!, }; const workflowRunner = new WorkflowRunner(); const executionId = await workflowRunner.run(runData); const activeExecutions = ActiveExecutions.getInstance(); const data = await activeExecutions.getPostExecutePromise(executionId); if (data === undefined) { throw new Error('Workflow did not return any data!'); } if (data.data.resultData.error) { console.info('Execution was NOT successful. See log message for details.'); logger.info('Execution error:'); logger.info('===================================='); logger.info(JSON.stringify(data, null, 2)); const { error } = data.data.resultData; throw { ...error, stack: error.stack, }; } if (flags.rawOutput === undefined) { this.log('Execution was successful:'); this.log('===================================='); } this.log(JSON.stringify(data, null, 2)); } catch (e) { console.error('Error executing workflow. See log messages for details.'); logger.error('\nExecution error:'); logger.info('===================================='); logger.error(e.message); logger.error(e.stack); this.exit(1); } this.exit(); } }