Generate a function to get a resource ID without calling Azure

[mcardosos]

Right now, some methods will require a resource ID, and the way to get it is with Get methods that will return a struct containing the ID. Still, the resource ID can be built easily (and without sending a request to Azure) with fmt.Sprintf, similar to this.

It would be cool if AutoRest generated functions like this one for resources...

func (client VirtualMachinesClient) GetVirtualMachineID (resourceGroupName, vmName string) string {
   return fmt.Sprintf("/subscriptions/%s/resourceGroups/%s/providers/Microsoft.Compute/virtualMachines/%s", client.SubscriptionID, resourceGroupName, vmName)
}

cc @colemickens

[colemickens]

A fluent construction would be interesting as well.

azure.Subscription(subId).ResourceGroup(rgId).Network.PublicIP(pipName) might be interesting.

[marstr]

This is a great idea, but we'll need to figure out how this relates to the Swaggers to prevent adding too tight of a coupling between our generator and Azure Swaggers. Perhaps this is an example of a place where a Swagger extension could be helpful?

For now, this goes on the Backlog.

[joshgav]

duplicate of #322, closing