My Snippet After Installing/Uninstalling Deleting Original ENV Variables and Function

Inayet Hadi

I created a snippet based on one of my api endpoints that included a database, two functions, and 5 environmental variables.
Installed the snippet, then uninstalled it.
Afterwards, I noticed that my 5 original environmental variables have also been removed/deleted along with the function I pasted below. 

Inayet Hadi

Lesson learned, when creating a snippet to share with others and then I want to test it out as well, to make sure that I rename everything that I want to share in a snippet so that if I install it and then want to delete/remove the snippet that it does not delete/remove my original information ie env vars, funcs, and anything else that I built the snippet with.

 I guess the messaging could be a little clear when uninstalling one own's snippet to state that your original information db, funcs, env vars, and etc will also be deleted. 

Sean Montgomery

Installing the snippet into the original workspace would cause an issue. We've never had anyone do that, but we should have a warning for that use case.

We are able to restore your instance from a backup. Check the support thread.

Inayet Hadi

Hi Sean, Thank you for responding. Through the support chat the offer was made, however the backup was not near where the deletion occurred. If I had agreed with the backup it would have deleted a lot work.

No software is perfect as it is built by humans, however, keep making it better, I'll put a feature request, and hopefully if enough interest that you can guy can devote to create a solution.

Also this event of me losing data when installing my own snippet and then deleting it has made realize to clone then change all names before creating a snippet was a good lesson to learn. This event was an even greater learning opportunity and a great way to redo and make better than before. I am finally learning to like and use functions in my stack where the logic happens elsewhere  but I can reference them in the main function.