--expand parameter causes the CLI to timeout, send invalid requests, and generally does not work.

[binderjoe]

--expand parameter causes the CLI to timeout, send invalid requests, and generally does not work.

[johanste]

If you run:

az vm get --resourcegroup foo --vm_name bar --expand instanceView

you should get the instance view, which has the statuses as a child item (there is no statuses property directly on the returned virtual machine).

[binderjoe]

Sure, but we agree this is broken, right?

[JasonRShaver]

Example from recent build:

jasonsha@JasonShaMBP: ~ $ az vm show -g foo -n bar --expand asdf
expand must be type InstanceViewTypes.
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/local/az/envs/default/lib/python2.7/site-packages/azure/cli/main.py", line 50, in main
    cmd_result = APPLICATION.execute(args)
  File "/usr/local/az/envs/default/lib/python2.7/site-packages/azure/cli/application.py", line 103, in execute
    result = args.func(params)
  File "/usr/local/az/envs/default/lib/python2.7/site-packages/azure/cli/commands/__init__.py", line 204, in _execute_command
    result = operation(client, **kwargs) if client else operation(**kwargs)
  File "/usr/local/az/envs/default/lib/python2.7/site-packages/azure/mgmt/compute/operations/virtual_machines_operations.py", line 356, in get
    query_parameters['$expand'] = self._serialize.query("expand", expand, 'InstanceViewTypes')
  File "/usr/local/az/envs/default/lib/python2.7/site-packages/msrest/serialization.py", line 352, in query
    raise TypeError("{} must be type {}.".format(name, data_type))
TypeError: expand must be type InstanceViewTypes.

[BurtBiel]

It only works with instanceView, perhaps we could make expand a flag and auto-expand instanceView

[johanste]

The SDK has been updated to (at least for vm show) only support the string instanceView. The type attribute of the parameter should be updated.

[JasonRShaver]

Cleaning up old issues, reopen if this is still active.