Show both progress and JSON output on deployment command

[kalinchernev]

- Do you want to request a feature or report a bug?

Feature

- What is the current behavior?

When running a deployment command with --json option in this way:

netlify deploy --site 1234-5678 --message "foo" --json

There is no progress displayed on the output, only the end result.

- What is the desired behavior?

Be able to have something as:

netlify deploy --site 1234-5678 --message "foo" --json --verbose

Which will show progress of the deployment and will print out the json in the end.

- What is goal of the feature?

After moving the build processes out of netlify platform to save from build minutes, a convenient way to take deployment status is marking the --json flag. This output can be directred to a .json file later feeded into another script to set preview status on github issues similarly to Netlify preview.

However, asking for the --json output, deployment process' progress cannot be seen any more.

Is there a way to achieve that without having a new feature? Checked this part of the code and can't quite imagine what options to pass.

[DavidWells]

Hey @kalinchernev thanks for the request.

I'm not sure this would be possible. Mainly because all the stdout of the CLI would be parse of the response. This would effectively break the json if you are trying to parse it.

[kalinchernev]

Mixing types of data to the output is brittle, I agree. Would it be better to have the listDeploys <https://open-api.netlify.com/#operation/listSiteDeploys> as a param or option to the deploy <https://cli.netlify.com/commands/deploy> so to get info about the last deployment somehow and make use of it instead of the JSON output.

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[DavidWells]

Yeah what you could do it:

netlify deploy # to see progress
# then
netlify api listDeploys --json ....other args

I'd recommend putting 2 commands together. We can't support terminal piping if we add non JSON output to the deployment command

[kalinchernev]

Of course, that's what I meant, 2 commands. Managed to get deploys info with

netlify api listSiteDeploys --data '{ "site_id": "1234-5678"}' > deploys.json

From the deploys.json it's easy to find the necessary info.

Thanks for pointing out to the api command, didn't know about it! :)