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Parsing --json Output from Appflow CLI

Introduction​

When including --json as a flag for a build or deploy, several helpful pieces of information will be returned once the command finishes running in a parsable JSON format.

This is extremely useful when performing separate build and deploy commands where you'd like to deploy the newly built artifact.

Saving a Variable​

First, let's perform a Build utilizing the Appflow CLI like so (be sure to replace your own --app-id, --commit, and --token):

appflow build android debug --app-id AppIdEx123abc --commit abc123 --token $(IONIC_TOKEN) --json

Running this command (or any other command) with --json will show you the specific JSON that is returned from that command.

In this case we're performing a build, so let's grab the buildId and save it to a variable using jq (preinstalled on most CI/CD platforms).

BUILDID=$(appflow build android debug --app-id AppIdEx123abc --commit abc123 --token $(IONIC_TOKEN) --json  | jq -r '.buildId')

Using a Variable Later​

The BUILDID bash variable should now be available to use in the next command. An example of that would be the following (where you've already set up a Destination called "GooglePlay"):

appflow deploy android --app-id AppIdEx123abc --build-id $(BUILDID) --destination "GooglePlay" --token $(IONIC_TOKEN)

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