Describe the feature or problem you’d like to solve

When using gh api, I would like to be able to use the expressive power of --jq to manipulate/filter the JSON response data, and then --template to render it, but currently that doesn't seem to be allowed:

• Incorrect error shown (the --slurp option is not supported with --jq or --template) when passing --jq + --template without --slurp #10260

  • Looking closer at that code, we can see there is an error case below this that I would have expected to be shown instead:

    only one of --template, --jq, --silent, or --verbose may be used

    cli/pkg/cmd/api/api.go

    Lines 255 to 263 in 60f8417

    	if err := cmdutil.MutuallyExclusive(
    	"only one of `--template`, `--jq`, `--silent`, or `--verbose` may be used",
    	opts.Verbose,
    	opts.Silent,
    	opts.FilterOutput != "",
    	opts.Template != "",
    	); err != nil {
    	return err
    	}

    Originally posted by @0xdevalias in Incorrect error shown (the --slurp option is not supported with --jq or --template) when passing --jq + --template without --slurp #10260

Proposed solution

If it were possible to pass both --jq and --template together, then users would have more expressive ability to manipulate API response data through gh api without having to resort to moving to external tools/processing.

In particular, this would allow users to use --jq's deeper functionality for manipulation, while leveraging --template's simple/clean syntax for rendering the output.

Additional context

See also:

• Incorrect error shown (the --slurp option is not supported with --jq or --template) when passing --jq + --template without --slurp #10260
• Add custom formatting functions to --jq similar to those added to --template #10262