vm image list: space in json keys?

[ahmetb]

I'm surprised that command ran so fast (does it make an API request at all?) but the space in urn alias json key looks quite a bit unconventional:

[
  {
    "offer": "Debian",
    "publisher": "credativ",
    "sku": "8",
    "urn": "credativ:Debian:8:latest",
    "urn alias": "Debian",
    "version": "latest"
  },
  {
    "offer": "RHEL",
    "publisher": "RedHat",
    "sku": "7.2",
    "urn": "RedHat:RHEL:7.2:latest",
    "urn alias": "RHEL",
    "version": "latest"
  },
 ...
]

[yugangw-msft]

by default, it hits the static json file somewhere in the git repo, which has limited image information, but good for 80% scenarios. To query all images (3000+), use the flag of --all. I suggest you specify at least a filter say "--publisher SUSE" (partial name also works), to get back the result within reasonable time, say less than 10 seconds . We profiled last time by using mac pro 2011, no filter used, you get back all of them within 20 seconds

[yugangw-msft]

I will fix the space issue.

[ahmetb]

Yugang Wang (@yugangw-msft) don't you think the following is going to cause some confusion? (a customer might as well think there is no Ubuntu 16.04 on Azure from this)

# az vm image list --offer ubuntuserver
[
  {
    "offer": "UbuntuServer",
    "publisher": "Canonical",
    "sku": "14.04.4-LTS",
    "urn": "Canonical:UbuntuServer:14.04.4-LTS:latest",
    "urn alias": "UbuntuLTS",
    "version": "latest"
  }
]

I think if the VM list has arguments like --offer, it should hit the network the network.

[yugangw-msft]

The concern is if change it, it might cause other confusions that why image list --filter outputs things unavailable from the image list (w/o the filter).
I don't have strong opinion on it, but we can keep this open and see whether other people develop the same confusions.

[ahmetb]

hmm okay. I'll let you figure out. Perhaps when this cmd used, print to stderr saying You are viewing an offline list of images, use --all to retrieve an up-to-date list?

[yugangw-msft]

ahmetalpbalkan (old account) (@ahmetalpbalkan) , i was thinking about the same statement when i typed the previous comment. :-)

[ahmetb]

Yugang Wang (@yugangw-msft) want me to open a separate issue for this offline image list issue? It hurt me again and I lost like 5 minutes because of not recalling this fact...

[yugangw-msft]

It is there. Could you double check? Or you like it display at the end?

You are viewing an offline list of images, use --all to retrieve an up-to-date list
[
  {
    "offer": "CentOS",
    "publisher": "OpenLogic",
    "sku": "7.2",
    "urn": "OpenLogic:CentOS:7.2:latest",
    "urnAlias": "CentOS",
    "version": "latest"
  },

[ahmetb]

hmm am I running an old version?

➜  ~ azure -v
0.10.2

➜  ~ az vm image list -l westus --publisher docker --output json

[yugangw-msft]

azure -v is the node version. Did you pull the python version?