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use az rest --method GET instead of az ad app list #3402

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28 changes: 13 additions & 15 deletions src/dotnet-scaffolding/dotnet-scaffold/AspNet/Helpers/AzCliHelper.cs
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Expand Up @@ -222,30 +222,28 @@ private static bool GetAzureAppIds(AzCliRunner runner, out List<string> appIds,
{
failingCommand = null;
appIds = [];
var exitCode = runner.RunAzCli("ad app list --output json", out string? stdOut, out string? stdErr);
// Use Microsoft Graph API via az rest
var exitCode = runner.RunAzCli("rest --method GET --url https://graph.microsoft.com/v1.0/applications?$select=appId,displayName", out string? stdOut, out string? stdErr);

if (exitCode == 0 && !string.IsNullOrEmpty(stdOut))
{
// Parse the JSON output
using JsonDocument doc = JsonDocument.Parse(stdOut);
JsonElement root = doc.RootElement;

if (root.ValueKind == JsonValueKind.Array)
if (root.TryGetProperty("value", out JsonElement valueArray) && valueArray.ValueKind == JsonValueKind.Array)
{

foreach (JsonElement app in root.EnumerateArray())
foreach (JsonElement app in valueArray.EnumerateArray())
{
if (app.TryGetProperty("appId", out JsonElement appId))
string? id = app.TryGetProperty("appId", out JsonElement appId) ? appId.GetString() : null;
string? displayName = app.TryGetProperty("displayName", out JsonElement name) ? name.GetString() : "Unknown App";
if (!string.IsNullOrEmpty(id) && !string.IsNullOrEmpty(displayName))
{
string? id = appId.GetString();
string? displayName = app.TryGetProperty("displayName", out JsonElement name) ?
name.GetString() : "Unknown App";

if (!string.IsNullOrEmpty(id) && !string.IsNullOrEmpty(displayName))
// the tool will throw if displayName contains []
if (displayName.Contains('[') || displayName.Contains(']'))
{
// Format as "DisplayName (AppId)" for better user experience
appIds.Add($"{displayName} {id}");
displayName = displayName.Replace("[", "(").Replace("]", ")");
}

appIds.Add($"{displayName} {id}");
}
}
return true;
Expand All @@ -254,7 +252,7 @@ private static bool GetAzureAppIds(AzCliRunner runner, out List<string> appIds,

if (!string.IsNullOrEmpty(stdErr))
{
failingCommand = $"az ad app list";
failingCommand = "az rest";
}
}
catch (Exception ex)
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