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confuzed
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6 months ago
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CLI output is not json when "--format json" used with "connect server create"

When running `op --format json connect server create "My Server" --vaults "MyVault"`, I expect the output to be JSON, an only JSON, so that my script can safely consume the output. I need to extract ...
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  • 1P_Phil's avatar
    1P_Phil
    6 months ago

    Hi confuzed​,

    Thanks for reaching out. thanks for the feedback, I'll send this along to the team.  In the mean time as a work around you can use the following to retrieve the JSON version of the server info:

    op connect server get "Demo Server" --format json

    it will come back like this

    ➜  Connect op connect server get "Demo Server" --format json
{
  "id": "TRMT2AZWWRE65JAHY{REDACTED}",
  "name": "demo SErver",
  "state": "ACTIVE",
  "created_at": "2025-06-27T16:05:12Z",
  "creator_id": "FIVA23HWMBETFC{REDACTED}",
  "tokens_version": 1
}

    Let us know if you need more help!  

    All the best, 

    Phil

confuzed's avatar
confuzed
New Contributor
6 months ago

Thank you for the suggestion. Unfortunately the reason I wanted to grab the ID from the output in the first place was because the API allows you to create multiple servers with the same name, causing other commands to fail when using the name to identify the server, which will be a problem with the suggestion. For now I've just grabbed the text output and extracted the ID via a regex, but it would be great to have a stable JSON output to use instead, I'll look out for the fix in a future release.