Snapcraft `whoami`

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With the introduction of UX for snap collaboration and transfer it makes sense now to introduce

snapcraft whoami

The output of the command should have the following to the minimum:

  • email used to login to the store
  • developer id

Optionally:

  • permissions of the login (macaroon scopes)

I am not stuck on a specific output format, but replicating that of snap info seems logical to keep output mechanisms in check for informational queries that are not as complicated as a channel map (as used in e.g.; snapcraft status).

If following snap info formatting fully, the output would look like:

$ snapcraft whoami
Email:        email@email.com
Developer-id: ID
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The latter format looks good. I’d just suggest using lowercase fields as typical in our content elsewhere:

$ snapcraft whoami
email:         someone@example.com
developer-id:  ...
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thanks, will update with your comments

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Yeah this is great. Not only is it useful for snap collaboration/transfer, but for model assertions. Saying "run snapcraft whoami" is way easier than saying “go to the store and find your account ID.”

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Can we have the same thing for snap please? This is useful when you have several accounts and you want to know which one you are logged in to.

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https://github.com/snapcore/snapd/pull/3277

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:sunglasses:

Thanks!

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shouldn’t it have a similar syntax?

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Here’s the initial PR for those tracking https://github.com/snapcore/snapcraft/pull/1332