Cannot pipe from Get-EC2IBComponentList to Get-EC2IBComponent

[indented-automation]

It should be possible to pipe from Get-EC2IBComponentList to Get-EC2IBComponent.

Expected Behavior

The pipeline should correctly provide a value for the ARN needed by Get-EC2IBComponent.

Current Behavior

As the ComponentBuildVersionArn is suffixed with a numeric value Get-EC2IBComponentList cannot be effectively used to find the required ARN for a component. The trailing value must be guessed.

Steps to Reproduce (for bugs)

Get-EC2IBComponentList | Get-EC2IBComponent

Throws the error:

Get-EC2IBComponent: The value supplied for parameter 'componentBuildVersionArn' is not valid. 'componentBuildVersionArn' must match pattern ^arn:aws[^:]*:imagebuilder:[^:]+:(?:\d{12}|aws):component/[a-z0-9-_]+/\d+\.\d+\.\d+/\d+$

Please note that this command is also affected by the bug in #150

Context

Trying to manage EC2 Image Builder configuration in code.

Your Environment

• AWS.Tools.Imagebuilder v4.0.5.0
• Windows 10
• PowerShell 7 (Core)

[austoonz]

This does not work directly for a few reasons.

1. Get-EC2IBComponentList returns an array of ComponentVersion objects (per the ListComponents API).
2. Get-EC2IBComponent takes an input of a "ComponentBuildVersionArn" (as you can see in the GetComponent API reference.

To do this today, your best bet is to use the -Select parameter across a few cmdlets:

Get-EC2IBComponentList -Select ComponentVersionList.Arn | 
    Get-EC2IBComponentBuildVersionList -Select ComponentSummaryList.Arn | 
    Get-EC2IBComponent

For the SDK team - could we add an alias to these parameters to accept Arn? Eg, Get-EC2IBComponentBuildVersionList -> "ComponentVersionArn" accepts an alias of "Arn" Get-EC2IBComponent -> "ComponentBuildVersionArn" accepts an alias of "Arn"

This should enable:

Get-EC2IBComponentList | Get-EC2IBComponentBuildVersionList | Get-EC2IBComponent

[ashishdhingra]

Hi @indented-automation,

Please confirm if the inputs provided above work for you.

Thanks, Ashish

[indented-automation]

As with the related issue.

This works, but it's counter-intuitive and not user-friendly.

Chris

On Fri, 24 Jul 2020 at 01:15, ashishdhingra notifications@github.com wrote:

Hi @indented-automation https://github.com/indented-automation,

Please confirm if the inputs provided above work for you.

Thanks, Ashish

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