Please enable yaml output for server reset-password

[edgecode]

TL;DR

$ hcloud version
hcloud 1.42.0

$ hcloud server reset-password --help
No option for YAML output :-(

Do I find the password in the server's description ... no:
$ hcloud server describe -o yaml SERVER_ID | grep -i pass

I have to resort to parsing the output, e.g.
$ hcloud server reset-password SERVER_ID | tail -n 1 | awk '{ print $NF }'

This is too fragile.
If the output format ever changes, code breaks.

Expected behavior

$ hcloud server reset-password --output yaml SERVER_ID

Thx :-)

[phm07]

Thanks for your suggestion! It looks like a useful addition to me, I'll work on an implementation.

[phm07]

I added the feature in #716

Can you please confirm that it works for you with

• go install github.com/hetznercloud/cli/cmd/hcloud@reset-password-output-options
• or go run github.com/hetznercloud/cli/cmd/hcloud@reset-password-output-options server reset-password <server> -o=yaml

[edgecode]

I added the feature in #716

Wow, that was fast :-)
Thanks for your work!

Can you please confirm that it works for you with

I will.
However, I am not as fast as you are ;-)
And pretty busy atm.
I guess I can test the modified hcloud tool in the next few days, aiming at 2024-03-24.

Thanks again, phm07!
best,
edgecode

[edgecode]

Tried to test, but failed due to my non-existant GO skills:
Unfortunalety I cannot dive into this atm.
@phm07 maybe you could give me a quick hint to set up GO correctly.

I am on a Ubuntu 22.04 machine.
It has GO 1.18 installed in Debian/Ubuntu's standard locations, e.g. /usr/{lib,share,bin}/go-1.18

When I run go install as a regular user, it downloads hclould code in ./go and I get:

/home/edge$ go install github.com/hetznercloud/cli/cmd/hcloud@reset-password-output-options
go/pkg/mod/github.com/hetznercloud/[email protected]/internal/cmd/iso/list.go:5:2: package slices is not in GOROOT (/usr/lib/go-1.18/src/slices)

I tried export GOROOT='/usr/lib/go-1.18:/home/edge/go' which did not help.
Reading the error message closer, I guess my GO installation is missing the slices package.
I will retry this evening and see how I can install that package.

[edgecode]

I was able to get things working with go 1.22 :-)

Either I did not get the env vars or go.mod concept of go.
Or the package "slices" is not part of go's standard lib in version 1.18.
For the record: I installed the Canonical official snap package on my Ubuntu 22.04 machine which has many go version on board and defaults to go 1.22.

But back to business:
The modified hcloud cli works :-)
I do get YAML or JSON output when I reset a server's password.
And server reset-password --help lists the output options.

@phm07 Thanks again for your fast implementation of this small, but useful hcloud enhancment.

[apricote]

Yea, slices was only added in Go 1.21, and that is the lowest version we currently support.

Great that it works for you!

I will re-open the issue until the PR is merged, @phm07 will be back next week to take care of that.