Can we make aquery support --target_pattern_file parameters?

[st0rm23]

Description of the feature request:

Currently, we are not able to execute bazel aquery with --target_pattern_file options. It is not very convenience when we have large number of target to query.

The current execution result is empty

bazel aquery --target_pattern_file=/tmp/targets
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Which category does this issue belong to?

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What underlying problem are you trying to solve with this feature?

we hope aquery can query a list of targets

Which operating system are you running Bazel on?

Ubuntu 20.04

What is the output of bazel info release?

6.4.0

If bazel info release returns development version or (@non-git), tell us how you built Bazel.

No response

What's the output of git remote get-url origin; git rev-parse HEAD ?

No response

Have you found anything relevant by searching the web?

no

Any other information, logs, or outputs that you want to share?

No response

[st0rm23]

I found a workaround. use --query_file option to construct something like deps(//target_a + //target_b + ...)

But it is not very easy to use, query_file does not support multiple lines and does not support - (exclude) operator

[joeleba]

Thanks for filing the feature request. Realistically speaking we're not planning to support this, since it does not fit very nicely with our existing query/filter syntax.