Generalising url option to fly commands

[mockersf]

What challenge are you facing?

When using fly, I have to specify the target and my pipeline / build / ... and remember the options.

What would make this better?

fly hijack can take an url and not need anything else to know which target / pipeline / build to use. This option is only available for hijack command.

-u, --url=                    URL for the build, job, or check container to hijack

Generalising this option to other commands to get the target and other info needed would be helpful.
In my case, the two commands where it would help me the most is get-pipeline and set-pipeline

commands where fly could retrieve the target and pipeline from the URL:

• checklist
• destroy-pipeline
• expose-pipeline
• get-pipeline
• hide-pipeline
• jobs
• pause-pipeline
• rename-pipeline
• resources
• set-pipeline
• unpause-pipeline

commands where fly could retrieve the target and job from the URL:

• pause-job
• trigger-job
• unpause-job

commands where fly could retrieve the target and extra info from the URL:

• abort-build (build or pipeline / job)
• check-resource (pipeline and resource)
• check-resource-type (pipeline and resource type)
• clear-task-cache (pipeline and job, would still need step)
• resource-versions (pipeline and resource)
• watch (build or pipeline / job)

Are you interested in implementing this yourself?

Yes ! I can start with the commands on pipelines

[vito]

Sounds nice. It'd be great if there was some way to do this generically so all the commands don't require too much code to handle it. 🤔