XML backup with 0 messagges when signal-back is built with dep ensure

[nonno-cicala]

• Operating system: Gentoo GNU/Linux
• Build version: commit 7b9bc21

This is an issue I have depending on how I build signal-back.

If I build signal-back with:

dep ensure
go build .

CSV format and extract both work fine, while XML format outputs only this:

<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8' standalone='yes' ?>
<?xml-stylesheet type="text/xsl" href="sms.xsl" ?>
<smses count="0"></smses>

signal-back -v ... outputs only a bunch of "MMS export not yet supported"

If I build signal-back with:

go get github.com/xeals/signal-back

it works fine with XML too.

Thank you for this very useful program 😃

[wehkah]

I am just facing the same problem when I use a prebuild binary: a zero sized out put file. I am not familiar with github and its building command, but I managed to install go and go-dep on my system, which is KDE Neon. But when I start the shown command, I get these errors:

:~$ go get github.com/xeals/signal-back

# github.com/xeals/signal-back/cmd
download/src/github.com/xeals/signal-back/cmd/check.go:19:17: cannot use cli.StringFlag literal (type cli.StringFlag) as type cli.Flag in array or slice literal:
        cli.StringFlag does not implement cli.Flag (Apply method has pointer receiver)
download/src/github.com/xeals/signal-back/cmd/check.go:23:17: cannot use cli.StringFlag literal (type cli.StringFlag) as type cli.Flag in array or slice literal:
        cli.StringFlag does not implement cli.Flag (Apply method has pointer receiver)
download/src/github.com/xeals/signal-back/cmd/extract.go:23:17: cannot use cli.StringFlag literal (type cli.StringFlag) as type cli.Flag in array or slice literal:
        cli.StringFlag does not implement cli.Flag (Apply method has pointer receiver)
download/src/github.com/xeals/signal-back/cmd/format.go:28:17: cannot use cli.StringFlag literal (type cli.StringFlag) as type cli.Flag in array or slice literal:
        cli.StringFlag does not implement cli.Flag (Apply method has pointer receiver)
download/src/github.com/xeals/signal-back/cmd/format.go:33:17: cannot use cli.StringFlag literal (type cli.StringFlag) as type cli.Flag in array or slice literal:
        cli.StringFlag does not implement cli.Flag (Apply method has pointer receiver)
download/src/github.com/xeals/signal-back/cmd/format.go:38:17: cannot use cli.StringFlag literal (type cli.StringFlag) as type cli.Flag in array or slice literal:
        cli.StringFlag does not implement cli.Flag (Apply method has pointer receiver)
download/src/github.com/xeals/signal-back/cmd/util.go:38:16: cannot use cli.StringFlag literal (type cli.StringFlag) as type cli.Flag in array or slice literal:
        cli.StringFlag does not implement cli.Flag (Apply method has pointer receiver)
download/src/github.com/xeals/signal-back/cmd/util.go:42:16: cannot use cli.StringFlag literal (type cli.StringFlag) as type cli.Flag in array or slice literal:
        cli.StringFlag does not implement cli.Flag (Apply method has pointer receiver)
download/src/github.com/xeals/signal-back/cmd/util.go:46:14: cannot use cli.BoolFlag literal (type cli.BoolFlag) as type cli.Flag in array or slice literal:
        cli.BoolFlag does not implement cli.Flag (Apply method has pointer receiver)
download/src/github.com/xeals/signal-back/cmd/util.go:106:42: undefined: cli.ExitError
download/src/github.com/xeals/signal-back/cmd/format.go:38:17: too many errors

Could you please give me a hand with this one? I really need to re-import all of my sms back into the standard sms app, but Signal is not making this easy for their users. :(