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My organisation has a managed package DevABC which has a namespace prefix Dev_ABC. I created a SFDX project using manifest. I authorized the org using the system administrator. Now, when I tried to retrieve the source in manifest from org, I do not see an apex classes or lightning components. I even tried using force.source.retrieve and force.mdapi.retrieve commands but wasn't able to retrieve anything.

I updated my package.xml file as well to include Dev_ABC__* instead of * in the members tag but I get warnings like these:

Entity of type 'ApexClass' named 'Dev_ABC__*' cannot be found

Not sure what exactly I am missing!

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  • PS: I checked the org browser: metadata in vs code but there's no metadata visible Commented Jan 21 at 10:54

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Apex classes and the vast majority of metadata included in a managed packaged have IP Protection. Documentation states:

To protect the intellectual property of the developer, the component’s metadata, such as Apex code or Custom Metadata record information, is hidden in the installed org

In that link there is a list of metadata that can be included in a managed package and for each one the documentation states where it has IP Protection. Everytime you see "Component Has IP Protection = Yes" you know that there is no way to retrieve that metadata.
That's why you cannot retrieve Apex classes included in a managed package, nor you can see their code from Developer Console.

Only the developer of the package can update such components.

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