For automation needs, have a similar UrlAction print but only printing the url on stdout - without any pre / post text

[llange]

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.
It's a minor annoyance, I have a workaround.
I'd like to automate the opening of some AWS console sessions in tabs (containers), so that those sessions are isolated in the browser.
I'm using this extension https://github.com/honsiorovskyi/open-url-in-container which provides the ability to launch an URL in a specific container tab (and a cli launcher).
However the current implementation of the print UrlAction of aws-sso has 2 "issues":

• It outputs to stderr
• It prints some text before and after the url ("Please open the following URL in your browser:").

thus I need to post-process the (stderr) output of aws-sso console to extract the url.
(And I cannot use the --browser argument as it's not intended to have parameters).

I thought it could be nice to have a full non-interactive output for automation.
I like the idea of each tool doing its own job, and chaining the output / result of the tools to compose a solution (Instead of having too much features in a tool).

Describe the solution you'd like

• Either an additional option --url-action=XXXXX, or a decision to remove all the accompanying text when using --url-action=print (which may be inconvenient to existing users)
• All useful data should go to stdout
  (May be a solution could be to print the accompanying text to stderr, while the data itself is output to stdout ; there may be a risk in display order).

Describe alternatives you've considered
Currently I'm post-processing stderr to extract the URL:

aws-sso console --arn arn:aws:iam::XXXXXXXXXXXXX:role/YYYYYYYYYYYY --url-action=print 2>&1 | sed -ne 's/\(http[^"]*\).*/\1/p' | xargs firefox-launcher (args) (args)

which works great.

[synfinatic]

so the --url-action=print command can't print anything to stderr because that will interfere with things like eval $(aws-sso eval ...) to load the AWS creds into the existing shell environment.

That said, I can create a new --url-action which only prints the url without the accompanying text for easier integration (remove the sed), but I think it should still go to stderr because of the above.

Is that a reasonable compromise?

[llange]

Hi,
thanks for the answer ; and yes, it does sound like an interesting addition, thanks !!
Let me know how I can help on this.

[synfinatic]

@llange: just a follow up, if you get a chance, check out the new exec feature I added. I think that should be an even better solution to the printurl option we discussed. LMK if you have any questions.