no output to stdout

[adyrcz]

When I run a packer build of an AMI using this module, the command starts and runs......... and runs........ then just spits back my prompt. Is it done? Did it build? No clue... 😢

I've tried both Debug set to True & False p.build(parallel=True, debug=False, force=False) & p.build(parallel=True, debug=True, force=False)

I would like to have it output the same stdout that the native Packer outputs.

[nir0s]

I'll release a version with a fix for this soon

[adyrcz]

Will it be possible to use the output as an object? for ex. when a packer run completes it returns the AMI ID of the freshly generated AMI. I'd like to use that and pass that through the SlackAPI and notify my channel that "AMI-XXXXXXXX was just generated"

[nir0s]

It seems like it was already added here:

https://github.com/nir0s/python-packer/pull/8/commits/f7d33e44518303a41aa931840ea1758609eeec5c.

see here: https://amoffat.github.io/sh/sections/special_arguments.html#out for reference

[nir0s]

In an unrelated subject, I'm doing quire a refactoring for v0.2.0 so it'll be easier to retrieve output, but I don't think it'll be trivial to do what you asked (like getting the AMI ID) as it depends on the provider you're using to create the image and on very potentially non-robust parsing of the output. I'll try to think of something.

[adyrcz]

Thank you

[mkohn]

Any update on this?

[iamaaronknight]

Hi, checking in on this. It would be very helpful to have.