example frontend-template fails with cargo backtrace

[davidwalter0]

What version are you using?

soroban version
soroban 20.3.1 (ae5446f63ca8a275e61912019199254d598f3bd5)
soroban-env 20.2.1 (18a10592853d9edf4e341b565b0b1638f95f0393)
soroban-env interface version 85899345920
stellar-xdr 20.1.0 (8b9d623ef40423a8462442b86997155f2c04d3a1)
xdr curr (b96148cd4acc372cc9af17b909ffe4b12c43ecb6)

 cargo version
cargo 1.77.0 (3fe68eabf 2024-02-29)

 node --version
v21.6.1

What did you do?

Initialized a directory with hello world and incement then ran

soroban contract init ./  --frontend-template https://github.com/AhaLabs/soroban-astro-template
ℹ️  Initializing project at ./
...

thread 'main' panicked at ${HOME}/.cargo/registry/src/index.crates.io-6f17d22bba15001f/soroban-cli-20.3.1/src/commands/contract/init.rs:407:49:
called `Option::unwrap()` on a `None` value
note: run with `RUST_BACKTRACE=1` environment variable to display a backtrace

What did you expect to see?

Expected a successful initializaton

What did you see instead?

Failed initialization

$ mkdir api

$ cd api

$ soroban contract init getting-started-tutorial
ℹ️  Initializing project at getting-started-tutorial
➕  Writing getting-started-tutorial/.gitignore
➕  Writing getting-started-tutorial/Cargo.lock
➕  Writing getting-started-tutorial/Cargo.toml
➕  Writing getting-started-tutorial/README.md

$ ls -al
total 12
drwxrwxr-x 3 david david 4096 Mar 28 09:01 .
drwxrwxr-x 7 david david 4096 Mar 28 09:01 ..
drwxrwxr-x 2 david david 4096 Mar 28 09:01 getting-started-tutorial

$ cd getting-started-tutorial/

$ ls
Cargo.lock  Cargo.toml  README.md

$ soroban contract init hello-soroban
ℹ️  Initializing project at hello-soroban
➕  Writing hello-soroban/.gitignore
➕  Writing hello-soroban/Cargo.lock
➕  Writing hello-soroban/Cargo.toml
➕  Writing hello-soroban/README.md

$ ls -al
total 64
drwxrwxr-x 3 david david  4096 Mar 28 09:01 .
drwxrwxr-x 3 david david  4096 Mar 28 09:01 ..
-rw-rw-r-- 1 david david 37912 Mar 28 09:01 Cargo.lock
-rw-rw-r-- 1 david david   458 Mar 28 09:01 Cargo.toml
-rw-rw-r-- 1 david david    96 Mar 28 09:01 .gitignore
drwxrwxr-x 2 david david  4096 Mar 28 09:01 hello-soroban
-rw-rw-r-- 1 david david   976 Mar 28 09:01 README.md

$ soroban contract init ./ --with-example increment
ℹ️  Initializing project at ./
ℹ️  Skipped creating ./.gitignore as it already exists
ℹ️  Skipped creating ./Cargo.lock as it already exists
➕  Writing ./Cargo.toml
ℹ️  Skipped creating ./README.md as it already exists
ℹ️  Initializing example contract: increment
➕  Writing ./contracts/increment/Cargo.toml
➕  Writing ./contracts/increment/Cargo.lock
➕  Writing ./contracts/increment/src/lib.rs
➕  Writing ./contracts/increment/src/test.rs

$ mv hello-soroban/ contracts/

$ ls -al
total 64
drwxrwxr-x 3 david david  4096 Mar 28 09:02 .
drwxrwxr-x 3 david david  4096 Mar 28 09:01 ..
-rw-rw-r-- 1 david david 37912 Mar 28 09:01 Cargo.lock
-rw-rw-r-- 1 david david   458 Mar 28 09:02 Cargo.toml
drwxrwxr-x 4 david david  4096 Mar 28 09:02 contracts
-rw-rw-r-- 1 david david    96 Mar 28 09:01 .gitignore
-rw-rw-r-- 1 david david   976 Mar 28 09:01 README.md

$ git init
Initialized empty Git repository in ${HOME}/work/api/getting-started-tutorial/.git/

$ git add .

$ git commit -a -m 'initial commit'
[main (root-commit) eeb7993] initial commit
 12 files changed, 4678 insertions(+)
 create mode 100644 .gitignore
 create mode 100644 Cargo.lock
 create mode 100644 Cargo.toml
 create mode 100644 README.md
 create mode 100644 contracts/hello-soroban/.gitignore
 create mode 100644 contracts/hello-soroban/Cargo.lock
 create mode 100644 contracts/hello-soroban/Cargo.toml
 create mode 100644 contracts/hello-soroban/README.md
 create mode 100644 contracts/increment/Cargo.lock
 create mode 100644 contracts/increment/Cargo.toml
 create mode 100644 contracts/increment/src/lib.rs
 create mode 100644 contracts/increment/src/test.rs

$ soroban contract init ./  --frontend-template https://github.com/AhaLabs/soroban-astro-template
ℹ️  Initializing project at ./
ℹ️  Skipped creating ./.gitignore as it already exists
ℹ️  Skipped creating ./Cargo.lock as it already exists
➕  Writing ./Cargo.toml
ℹ️  Skipped creating ./README.md as it already exists
ℹ️  Initializing with frontend template
ℹ️  Skipped creating ./Cargo.toml as it already exists
➕  Writing ./astro.config.mjs
➕  Writing ./.env.example
➕  Writing ./initialize.js
➕  Writing ./public/favicon.svg
➕  Writing ./tsconfig.json
ℹ️  Skipped creating ./README.md as it already exists
➕  Writing ./package.json
ℹ️  Skipped creating ./Cargo.lock as it already exists
➕  Writing ./src/env.d.ts
➕  Writing ./src/layouts/Layout.astro
➕  Writing ./src/components/Card.astro
➕  Writing ./src/contracts/util.ts
➕  Writing ./src/pages/index.astro
➕  Writing ./CONTRIBUTING.md
➕  Writing ./.gitattributes
➕  Writing ./packages/.gitkeep
➕  Writing ./package-lock.json
thread 'main' panicked at ${HOME}/.cargo/registry/src/index.crates.io-6f17d22bba15001f/soroban-cli-20.3.1/src/commands/contract/init.rs:407:49:
called `Option::unwrap()` on a `None` value
note: run with `RUST_BACKTRACE=1` environment variable to display a backtrace

[elizabethengelman]

Thanks for reporting this!

This was resolved as of release v20.3.4, specifically in this PR: #1224. I've tested this out with v20.3.4 and the most recent release (21.0.0) and was not able to reproduce this error on those releases.