<frame> token paths aren't path mapping properly in deadline cloud

[Kikkopanda]

Describe the bug

Paths that use token don't appear to get the session path updates in the path mapping function in deadline cloud when rendering

Expected Behaviour

The paths would get the same treatment as other file paths that don't use the token in the filepath name.

Current Behaviour

Paths that don't have a token in them appear to get updated to the session specific path where the cloud assets are uploaded to but the paths with token in them do not get updated and therefore report frame is missing with the original scene path.

Reproduction Steps

Create a node that uses a path that has token in it and submit to deadline cloud. For our case we're using VrayProxy nodes to load alembic cache files for which that is an image sequence.

Environment

At minimum:

1. Operating system (e.g. Windows Server 2022; Amazon Linux 2023; etc.)
   Submitting from Windows 11 Pro
2. Version of Maya
   Maya 2024.2, 2025, 2026
3. Version of this package
   0.15.12
4. If this is from a version installed by the Deadline Cloud Submitter installer, then what version of the submitter installer?
   I'm using the downloaded package from this git repo and loading it via .mod files

Please share other details about your environment that you think might be relevant to reproducing the bug.
The specific issue we came across is for a vray proxy node that's loading an .abc cache for which it's been cached out for each frame of the sequence. We're using vray 7.2

[leongdl]

@Kikkopanda can you provide an example job template?

I would like to reproduce the issue locally?

[Kikkopanda]

We actually confirmed in a ticket with ChaosGroup that it's a Vray specific issue where VRayProxy nodes that have a filePath attribute that has the token in the file path do not update when using maya.cmds.dirmap

This does not happen when the path is to an actual file .

You can reproduce this locally by creating an alembic file sequence and setting up a maya.cmds.dirmap such as
maya.cmds.dirmap( m=('C:/temp/test_vray', 'D:/temp/test_vray') )
maya.cmds.dirmap(enable=True)

If you path to an individual file in the sequence and move around the timeline you'll see the filePath attribute in the VRayProxy node update it's value, however if you use the or token the filePath attribute remains unchanged.

While hopefully Chaos fixes the issue is there a way we can insert a step into the job template to manually scan for VRayProxy nodes and if there's a token in there use the PathMapping file to update the path?