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CLI: simple orders should not require multiple steps

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Assessment

Difficulty
3/5
Estimated time
1-2 days
Newbie friendliness
45/100
Issue type
Feature
Clarity
Mostly clear
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
python
Domain
cli

Research direction

Start by locating the CLI entry points for planet orders request and planet orders create, then compare how their options are defined and passed. Confirm the single planet orders create command can accept the request options, place a simple one-item order, and preserve existing command behavior.

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Description

proposal

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.

Users need to pipe together multiple commands to create a simple order for a single item.

Example from Slack:

planet orders request --item-type PSScene --bundle basic_analytic_udm2 --name test_order 20240222_222222_22_2222 |planet orders create -

This makes working with the CLI more complicated than it needs to be and causes issues on different platforms.

Describe the solution you'd like

the planet orders create command could accept the same options as planet orders request, allowing users to place an order with a single command.

Dominant language
Python
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Avg merge
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Merged PRs (30d)
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