Uploading with app-store-connect and `--max-build-processing-wait 0` results in non-zero exit code about cli-tools

[priitlatt]

Hi @definitelyokay, if you pass --testflight flag to publish command, then the uploaded build will be submitted to TestFlight beta app review program to allow external testing. Sadly this submission cannot be done immediately after the initial upload completes. This is because Apple does some pre-processing on their end before uploaded build can be further interacted using the API (or even App Store Connect web interface).
If you are fine with just internal testing in TestFlight, then you can completely omit --testflight option together with --max-build-processing-wait and just do

app-store-connect publish --path build/ios/ipa/*.ipa

as this will upload the ipa to TestFlight too, just without making it available for external testing.

[priitlatt]

To add to the previous comment, it looks from the screenshot that everything is in fact correct - uploaded build is discovered in PROCESSING state, and since hard limit to max processing duration is set to 0 minutes, all further actions are terminated as the allowed timespan to wait until processing completes (and futher operations can be done) runs out.

[definitelyokay]

Sadly this submission cannot be done immediately after the initial upload completes.

@priitlatt Ah, okay! Didn't put that together for some reason.

If you are fine with just internal testing in TestFlight, then you can completely omit --testflight option together with --max-build-processing-wait and just do

Sounds like my use case — perfect!

Feel free to close, sounds like user error!

since hard limit to max processing duration is set to 0 minutes, all further actions are terminated

I guess I didn't realize that testflight submission had to wait, but that makes sense. Thank you for pointing that out.

[priitlatt]

Thanks for a quick reply. I'll close this issue for now.