Make tea pulls create honor --output json (#1111)

## Problem

`tea pulls create` accepts `--output` (the flag parses successfully) but never reads it — the action always prints glamour-rendered markdown regardless of the requested format. That is a trap for anyone scripting the CLI: `tea pr create --output json | jq .url` quietly feeds jq a markdown document.

The current output is also hostile to URL-scraping consumers even without `--output`: glamour autolinks the bare PR URL into an OSC 8 terminal hyperlink, so piped stdout contains

```
\x1b]8;;https://host/owner/repo/pulls/33\x1b\\https://host/owner/repo/pulls/33\x1b]8;;\x1b\\
```

instead of a plain URL (repro: `tea pr create ... | cat -v`).

## Why the flag parses but does nothing

`create` itself does not declare `--output`: its flag set (`IssuePRCreateFlags`) carries no `OutputFlag`. The flag parses anyway because urfave/cli v3 resolves flags through `Command.lookupAppliedFlag`, which searches `appliedFlags` — "local flags for current command **or persistent flags from ancestors**". The parent `pulls` command carries `--output` via `AllDefaultFlags`, so the flag reaches the subcommand's parser while being absent from `create --help` — and was never consulted by the action.

## What this changes

- `task.CreatePull` now returns the created `*gitea.PullRequest` instead of printing it.
- `runPullsCreate` switches on `--output`, mirroring the existing detail-command precedent (`RunPullsDetails` in `cmd/pulls.go`): `--output json` emits a lean JSON object; any other value (or no flag at all) falls through to the previous `print.PullDetails` rendering, byte-identical to before.
- Lean JSON shape, since a freshly created PR has no reviews/comments/CI yet: `index`, `title`, `url`, `state`, `base`, `head`.
- `--agit` combined with `--output` now fails fast with an explicit error before any API call or `git push`: the agit flow creates the PR server-side via push and returns no object to print.
- The interactive path is untouched — it only triggers when zero flags are set, so `--output` can never be active there.

Example:

```
$ tea pr create --output json --title "fix: thing" | jq -r .url
https://gitea.example.com/owner/repo/pulls/33
```

---------

Co-authored-by: Danilo Sousa <code@danilosousa.net>
Reviewed-on: https://gitea.com/gitea/tea/pulls/1111
Reviewed-by: Lunny Xiao <xiaolunwen@gmail.com>
Co-authored-by: ongolk <238961+ongolk@noreply.gitea.com>

cmd/pulls/create.go

@@ -5,6 +5,9 @@ package pulls
 
 import (
 	stdctx "context"
+	"encoding/json"
+	"fmt"
+	"io"
 
 	gitea "gitea.dev/sdk"
 	"github.com/urfave/cli/v3"
@@ -12,6 +15,7 @@ import (
 	"gitea.dev/tea/cmd/flags"
 	"gitea.dev/tea/modules/context"
 	"gitea.dev/tea/modules/interact"
+	"gitea.dev/tea/modules/print"
 	"gitea.dev/tea/modules/task"
 	"gitea.dev/tea/modules/utils"
 )
@@ -80,6 +84,12 @@ func runPullsCreate(requestCtx stdctx.Context, cmd *cli.Command) error {
 		return nil
 	}
 
+	// agit flow creates the PR via git push and returns no PR object, so
+	// --output cannot be honored there; fail fast before any API calls
+	if ctx.Bool("agit") && ctx.IsSet("output") {
+		return fmt.Errorf("--output cannot be combined with --agit: the PR is created via git push, so no pull request object is available to print")
+	}
+
 	// else use args to create PR
 	opts, err := flags.GetIssuePRCreateFlags(requestCtx, ctx)
 	if err != nil {
@@ -108,7 +118,7 @@ func runPullsCreate(requestCtx stdctx.Context, cmd *cli.Command) error {
 		allowMaintainerEdits = gitea.OptionalBool(ctx.Bool("allow-maintainer-edits"))
 	}
 
-	return task.CreatePull(
+	pr, err := task.CreatePull(
 		requestCtx,
 		ctx,
 		ctx.String("base"),
@@ -116,4 +126,41 @@ func runPullsCreate(requestCtx stdctx.Context, cmd *cli.Command) error {
 		allowMaintainerEdits,
 		opts,
 	)
+	if err != nil {
+		return err
+	}
+
+	if ctx.IsSet("output") {
+		switch ctx.String("output") {
+		case "json":
+			return writeCreatedPullAsJSON(ctx.Writer, pr)
+		}
+	}
+
+	print.PullDetails(pr, nil, nil)
+
+	return nil
+}
+
+// createdPullJSON is the machine-readable representation of a freshly
+// created pull request. A new PR has no reviews, comments or CI yet, so
+// this is intentionally leaner than the detail view's pullData (cmd/pulls.go).
+type createdPullJSON struct {
+	Index int64           `json:"index"`
+	Title string          `json:"title"`
+	URL   string          `json:"url"`
+	State gitea.StateType `json:"state"`
+	Base  string          `json:"base"`
+	Head  string          `json:"head"`
+}
+
+func writeCreatedPullAsJSON(w io.Writer, pr *gitea.PullRequest) error {
+	return json.NewEncoder(w).Encode(createdPullJSON{
+		Index: pr.Index,
+		Title: pr.Title,
+		URL:   pr.HTMLURL,
+		State: pr.State,
+		Base:  pr.Base.Ref,
+		Head:  pr.Head.Ref,
+	})
 }

cmd/pulls/create_app_test.go

@@ -0,0 +1,48 @@
+// Copyright 2026 The Gitea Authors. All rights reserved.
+// SPDX-License-Identifier: MIT
+
+package pulls_test
+
+import (
+	"context"
+	"testing"
+
+	"gitea.dev/tea/cmd"
+	"gitea.dev/tea/modules/config"
+
+	"github.com/stretchr/testify/assert"
+	"github.com/stretchr/testify/require"
+)
+
+// TestPullsCreateAgitOutputRejected verifies that --output (parsed via the
+// urfave/cli v3 ancestor-flag cascade, since create itself does not declare
+// it) is rejected for the agit flow before any API call or git push happens.
+func TestPullsCreateAgitOutputRejected(t *testing.T) {
+	config.SetConfigForTesting(config.LocalConfig{
+		Logins: []config.Login{{
+			Name:    "testLogin",
+			URL:     "https://gitea.example.com",
+			Token:   "test-token",
+			User:    "testUser",
+			Default: true,
+		}},
+	})
+	t.Cleanup(func() {
+		config.SetConfigForTesting(config.LocalConfig{})
+	})
+
+	app := cmd.App()
+	args := []string{
+		"tea", "pulls", "create",
+		"--agit",
+		"--output", "json",
+		"--head", "topic-branch",
+		"--title", "test",
+		"--login", "testLogin",
+		"--repo", "user/repo",
+	}
+
+	err := app.Run(context.Background(), args)
+	require.Error(t, err)
+	assert.Contains(t, err.Error(), "--output cannot be combined with --agit")
+}

cmd/pulls/create_test.go

@@ -0,0 +1,45 @@
+// Copyright 2026 The Gitea Authors. All rights reserved.
+// SPDX-License-Identifier: MIT
+
+package pulls
+
+import (
+	"bytes"
+	"encoding/json"
+	"testing"
+
+	gitea "gitea.dev/sdk"
+
+	"github.com/stretchr/testify/assert"
+	"github.com/stretchr/testify/require"
+)
+
+func TestWriteCreatedPullAsJSON(t *testing.T) {
+	pr := &gitea.PullRequest{
+		Index:   33,
+		Title:   "test title",
+		HTMLURL: "https://gitea.example.com/owner/repo/pulls/33",
+		State:   gitea.StateOpen,
+		Base:    &gitea.PRBranchInfo{Ref: "main"},
+		Head:    &gitea.PRBranchInfo{Ref: "feature"},
+	}
+
+	var buf bytes.Buffer
+	require.NoError(t, writeCreatedPullAsJSON(&buf, pr))
+
+	var got map[string]any
+	require.NoError(t, json.Unmarshal(buf.Bytes(), &got))
+
+	assert.Equal(t, float64(33), got["index"])
+	assert.Equal(t, "test title", got["title"])
+	assert.Equal(t, "https://gitea.example.com/owner/repo/pulls/33", got["url"])
+	assert.Equal(t, "open", got["state"])
+	assert.Equal(t, "main", got["base"])
+	assert.Equal(t, "feature", got["head"])
+
+	// exactly the lean field set, nothing extra
+	assert.Len(t, got, 6)
+
+	// machine-readable output must not contain terminal escape sequences
+	assert.NotContains(t, buf.String(), "\x1b")
+}

modules/interact/pull_create.go

@@ -8,6 +8,7 @@ import (
 
 	gitea "gitea.dev/sdk"
 	"gitea.dev/tea/modules/context"
+	"gitea.dev/tea/modules/print"
 	"gitea.dev/tea/modules/task"
 	"gitea.dev/tea/modules/theme"
 
@@ -134,11 +135,18 @@ func CreatePull(requestCtx stdctx.Context, ctx *context.TeaContext) (err error)
 		return err
 	}
 
-	return task.CreatePull(
+	pr, err := task.CreatePull(
 		requestCtx,
 		ctx,
 		base,
 		head,
 		&allowMaintainerEdits,
 		&opts)
+	if err != nil {
+		return err
+	}
+
+	print.PullDetails(pr, nil, nil)
+
+	return nil
 }

modules/task/pull_create.go

@@ -14,7 +14,6 @@ import (
 	"gitea.dev/tea/modules/config"
 	"gitea.dev/tea/modules/context"
 	local_git "gitea.dev/tea/modules/git"
-	"gitea.dev/tea/modules/print"
 	"gitea.dev/tea/modules/utils"
 )
 
@@ -24,24 +23,26 @@ var (
 	consecutive = regexp.MustCompile(`[\s]{2,}`)
 )
 
-// CreatePull creates a PR in the given repo and prints the result
+// CreatePull creates a PR in the given repo and returns the created PR
-func CreatePull(requestCtx stdctx.Context, ctx *context.TeaContext, base, head string, allowMaintainerEdits *bool, opts *gitea.CreateIssueOption) (err error) {
+func CreatePull(requestCtx stdctx.Context, ctx *context.TeaContext, base, head string, allowMaintainerEdits *bool, opts *gitea.CreateIssueOption) (*gitea.PullRequest, error) {
+	var err error
+
 	// default is default branch
 	if len(base) == 0 {
 		base, err = GetDefaultPRBase(requestCtx, ctx.Login, ctx.Owner, ctx.Repo)
 		if err != nil {
-			return err
+			return nil, err
 		}
 	}
 
 	// default is current one
 	if len(head) == 0 {
 		if ctx.LocalRepo == nil {
-			return fmt.Errorf("no local git repo detected, please specify head branch")
+			return nil, fmt.Errorf("no local git repo detected, please specify head branch")
 		}
 		headOwner, headBranch, err := GetDefaultPRHead(ctx.LocalRepo)
 		if err != nil {
-			return err
+			return nil, err
 		}
 
 		head = GetHeadSpec(headOwner, headBranch, ctx.Owner)
@@ -49,7 +50,7 @@ func CreatePull(requestCtx stdctx.Context, ctx *context.TeaContext, base, head s
 
 	// head & base may not be the same
 	if head == base {
-		return fmt.Errorf("can't create PR from %s to %s", head, base)
+		return nil, fmt.Errorf("can't create PR from %s to %s", head, base)
 	}
 
 	// default is head branch name
@@ -58,7 +59,7 @@ func CreatePull(requestCtx stdctx.Context, ctx *context.TeaContext, base, head s
 	}
 	// title is required
 	if len(opts.Title) == 0 {
-		return fmt.Errorf("title is required")
+		return nil, fmt.Errorf("title is required")
 	}
 
 	client := ctx.Login.Client()
@@ -74,7 +75,7 @@ func CreatePull(requestCtx stdctx.Context, ctx *context.TeaContext, base, head s
 		Deadline:  opts.Deadline,
 	})
 	if err != nil {
-		return fmt.Errorf("could not create PR from %s to %s:%s: %s", head, ctx.Owner, base, err)
+		return nil, fmt.Errorf("could not create PR from %s to %s:%s: %s", head, ctx.Owner, base, err)
 	}
 
 	if allowMaintainerEdits != nil && pr.AllowMaintainerEdit != *allowMaintainerEdits {
@@ -82,13 +83,11 @@ func CreatePull(requestCtx stdctx.Context, ctx *context.TeaContext, base, head s
 			AllowMaintainerEdit: allowMaintainerEdits,
 		})
 		if err != nil {
-			return fmt.Errorf("could not enable maintainer edit on pull: %v", err)
+			return nil, fmt.Errorf("could not enable maintainer edit on pull: %v", err)
 		}
 	}
 
-	print.PullDetails(pr, nil, nil)
+	return pr, nil
-
-	return err
 }
 
 // GetDefaultPRBase retrieves the default base branch for the given repo