set-status --application not properly reflected in juju status and show-application

[John A Meinel]

I was testing out application status (status-set --application) and found 2 issues:

 1) 'juju status --format=tabular' doesn't show the message for an application status (I thought it would be in Notes)
 2) 'juju show-application' doesn't show the value either

For example, doing:

$ juju run --unit ubuntu-lite/0 "status-set --application=False maintenance foo"
$ juju run --unit ubuntu-lite/0 "status-set --application=True maintenance bar"

I can see the Status change and the Unit message in 'juju status':
$ juju status
...
App Version Status Scale Charm Store Rev OS Notes
ubuntu-lite 18.04 maintenance 1 ubuntu-lite jujucharms 7 ubuntu
...
Unit Workload Agent Machine Public address Ports Message
ubuntu-lite/0* maintenance idle 1 10.207.1.54 foo

However, there is no Application message, nor is it in 'show-application':
$ juju show-application ubuntu-lite
ubuntu-lite:
  charm: ubuntu-lite
  series: bionic
  channel: stable
  principal: true
  exposed: false
  remote: false
  endpoint-bindings:
    another: ""
    ubuntu: ""

It *is* in 'juju status --format=yaml':
applications:
  ubuntu-lite:
    charm: cs:~jameinel/ubuntu-lite-7
    series: bionic
    os: ubuntu
    charm-origin: jujucharms
    charm-name: ubuntu-lite
    charm-rev: 7
    exposed: false
    application-status:
      current: maintenance
      message: bar
      since: 27 Nov 2019 12:08:29Z

[Dmitrii Shcherbakov (dmitriis)]

https://bugs.launchpad.net/juju/+bug/1850268 - a bug for (1) created earlier.

[Canonical Juju QA Bot (juju-qa-bot)]

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