Organization parameter is confusing and has poor error messages on invalid input

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe. It was difficult to discover how to use az artifacts universal and I had to look at docs. The error messages were cryptic and unhelpful.

Describe the solution you’d like

• path parameter does not seem to accept relative paths
• The parameter set should be improved. organization does not need to be a full URL, it would make more sense to accept just the organization name (without the https://dev.azure.com/ prefix)
• I received an “index out of range” or similar exception using one of the parameters. I think this is from an internal parsing error. This error should be caught and friendly

[chriskuech]

Also seems that the “packages” tag should be removed from this issue, as it occurs agnostic of “packages”

[chriskuech]

I think this issue should be reopened. The original issue is that specifying an improperly formatted --org parameter throws a cryptic error. I just updated and attempted to use a different command but faced the same issue. The error is uninformative and the solution is unintuitive, so it is very difficult to debug. I definitely think this error needs to be handled better, such as specifying that the issue is with --org and how to properly format the values.

C:\Repos> az boards query --org msazure --project FinOps --wiql "select * from workitems"
The command failed with an unexpected error. Here is the traceback:

list index out of range
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "C:\Users\VSSADM~1\AppData\Local\Temp\pip-install-qvpg2q31\knack\knack\cli.py", line 206, in invoke
  File "C:\Users\VSSADM~1\AppData\Local\Temp\pip-install-qvpg2q31\azure-cli-core\azure\cli\core\commands\__init__.py", line 351, in execute
  File "C:\Users\VSSADM~1\AppData\Local\Temp\pip-install-qvpg2q31\azure-cli-core\azure\cli\core\commands\__init__.py", line 409, in _run_jobs_serially
  File "C:\Users\VSSADM~1\AppData\Local\Temp\pip-install-qvpg2q31\azure-cli-core\azure\cli\core\commands\__init__.py", line 400, in _run_job
  File "C:\Users\chkuech\.azure\cliextensions\azure-devops\azext_devops\dev\common\exception_handler.py", line 26, in azure_devops_exception_handler
    reraise(*sys.exc_info())
  File "C:\Users\VSSADM~1\AppData\Local\Temp\pip-install-qvpg2q31\six\six.py", line 693, in reraise
  File "C:\Users\VSSADM~1\AppData\Local\Temp\pip-install-qvpg2q31\azure-cli-core\azure\cli\core\commands\__init__.py", line 379, in _run_job
  File "C:\Users\VSSADM~1\AppData\Local\Temp\pip-install-qvpg2q31\azure-cli-core\azure\cli\core\commands\__init__.py", line 171, in __call__
  File "C:\Users\VSSADM~1\AppData\Local\Temp\pip-install-qvpg2q31\azure-cli-core\azure\cli\core\__init__.py", line 451, in default_command_handler
  File "C:\Users\chkuech\.azure\cliextensions\azure-devops\azext_devops\dev\boards\work_item.py", line 237, in query_work_items
    client = get_work_item_tracking_client(organization)
  File "C:\Users\chkuech\.azure\cliextensions\azure-devops\azext_devops\dev\common\services.py", line 273, in get_work_item_tracking_client
    connection = get_connection(organization)
  File "C:\Users\chkuech\.azure\cliextensions\azure-devops\azext_devops\dev\common\services.py", line 43, in get_connection
    credentials = _get_credentials(organization)
  File "C:\Users\chkuech\.azure\cliextensions\azure-devops\azext_devops\dev\common\services.py", line 56, in _get_credentials
    if PAT_ENV_VARIABLE_NAME in os.environ or get_credential(organization) is not None:
  File "C:\Users\chkuech\.azure\cliextensions\azure-devops\azext_devops\dev\common\_credentials.py", line 17, in get_credential
    token = _get_credential(organization)
  File "C:\Users\chkuech\.azure\cliextensions\azure-devops\azext_devops\dev\common\_credentials.py", line 24, in _get_credential
    key = _get_service_name(organization)
  File "C:\Users\chkuech\.azure\cliextensions\azure-devops\azext_devops\dev\common\_credentials.py", line 76, in _get_service_name
    return 'azdevops-cli:' + normalize_url_for_key(organization)
  File "C:\Users\chkuech\.azure\cliextensions\azure-devops\azext_devops\dev\common\_credentials.py", line 85, in normalize_url_for_key
    organization_name = organization_name.split('/')[1]
IndexError: list index out of range

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