Enhancement: extend pa app get to allow retrieving apps by their display name

[waldekmastykarz]

Currently, pa app get allows you to retrieve information of an app by specifying its name which is a GUID. We should also allow specifying the display name which is more user-friendly and something that you could know upfront without having to look it up.

This can be picked up after merging #2172

[Abderahman88]

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[waldekmastykarz]

Sold! All yours @Abderahman88. Appreciate your help 👏

[Abderahman88]

At the moment, I'm getting all apps using https://management.azure.com/providers/Microsoft.PowerApps/apps?api-version=2016-11-01 and filtering out the required name. It works, but is there not an other way?

I'm trying to use the $filter-parameter in the API call above, but I get following error.

{
    "error": {
        "code": "InvalidAppFilterCombination",
        "message": "The app '$filter' and '$expand' elements only support one query type per request. The supported '$filter' keys for equivalence matches are combinations of 'tagname' and 'tagvalue', or exclusively 'Visibility'. The '$expand' query supports the following format: '$expand=permissions($filter=maxAssignedTo('[objectId]'))'."
    }
}

[waldekmastykarz]

If the API doesn't support it then the approach you have at the moment is good 👍

[appieschot]

@Abderahman88 I am not 100% sure but think that you can use REST filters on that endpoint (https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/azure-monitor/essentials/rest-api-walkthrough). So perhaps you can do a filter on the displayName property. I haven't tested that though but that might be an option.

[Abderahman88]

@appieschot I tried a filter but I don't get the error. (see post above)

https://management.azure.com/providers/Microsoft.PowerApps/apps?api-version=2016-11-01&$filter=displayName eq 'TestApp' --> does not work

But for example https://management.azure.com/providers/Microsoft.PowerApps/apps?api-version=2016-11-01&$filter=classification eq 'EditableApps' --> works (+ I don't see the property 'classification' in the response 🤷 . Got this filter example from Microsoft.PowerApps.PowerShell)

[appieschot]

Sorry! Didn't read properly! Looks like getting them all is the only way. If I ever find some time I will have a look at the powershell option as well. Still need to dive into those to spec some other commands as well.