add quiet mode

[csantanapr]

@dubeejw commented on Wed Mar 22 2017

CLI code is hard to read as the externalized string package being used requires a map of keys and values. This process should be abstracted to make the code more readable.

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@dubeejw commented on Wed Mar 22 2017

@csantanapr, @mdeuser, this is technical debt, and should be fixed ASAP.

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@csantanapr commented on Thu Mar 23 2017

Looking forward to a PR :)

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@rabbah commented on Thu Mar 23 2017

As part of doing this, consider: adding quiet mode which omits "ok:" and "error:" lines so that raw Json responses are more amenable to post processing.

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@markusthoemmes commented on Thu Mar 23 2017

Alternatively: --json or --raw to explicitly make the output machine-readable?

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@dubeejw commented on Thu Mar 23 2017

@markusthoemmes, @rabbah, a flag like --raw would be accomplished through this issue: apache/openwhisk#2064.

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@akrabat commented on Wed Apr 12 2017

A quiet mode would be handy for property get too. That way I wouldn't need to do this:

wsk property get --cliversion | rev | cut -f1 | rev