JMESPath query with `--output text` on `aws configure export-credentials` returns full json

[JustCatto]

Describe the bug

When running:
aws configure export-credentials --query "[x,y,z]" --output text
This returns the credentials as if we never ran the query.

Regression Issue

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Expected Behavior

Assuming aws configure export-credentials returns:
{ "Version": 1, "AccessKeyId": "x", "SecretAccessKey": "y", "SessionToken": "z", "Expiration": "2025-07-17T20:00:28+00:00" }
output for --query "[AccessKeyId,SecretAccessKey,SessionToken] --output text should be:
x y z

Current Behavior

aws configure export-credentials returns:
{ "Version": 1, "AccessKeyId": "x", "SecretAccessKey": "y", "SessionToken": "z", "Expiration": "2025-07-17T20:00:28+00:00" }
output for --query "[AccessKeyId,SecretAccessKey,SessionToken] --output text is:
{ "Version": 1, "AccessKeyId": "x", "SecretAccessKey": "y", "SessionToken": "z", "Expiration": "2025-07-17T20:00:28+00:00" }

Reproduction Steps

Create sso profile in aws cli
export credentials from profile using aws configure export-credentials and JMESPath query output with output set to text.

Possible Solution

N/A

Additional Information/Context

No response

CLI version used

2.25.14

Environment details (OS name and version, etc.)

aws-cli/2.25.14 Python/3.12.10 Darwin/24.1.0 source/arm64

[RyanFitzSimmonsAK]

Hi @JustCatto, thanks for reaching out. As mentioned in the export-credentials documentation, this command ignores the global --query and --output options. If you want to change the format of the response, you can use the --format parameter, although plain text is not one of the supported options. Please let me know if you have any follow-up questions.

[JustCatto]

I see. Thank you for looking into this. As a workaround, we've used the default export options, and jq to query the json.

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