Remove logic to add a host id. Closes #86

Author: ahmelsayed

src/Azure.Functions.Cli/Actions/HostActions/StartHostAction.cs

@@ -102,7 +102,6 @@ public override async Task RunAsync()
             var settings = SelfHostWebHostSettingsFactory.Create(ConsoleTraceLevel, scriptPath);
 
             ReadSecrets();
-            CheckHostJsonId();
 
             var baseAddress = Setup();
 
@@ -136,26 +135,6 @@ public override async Task RunAsync()
             }
         }
 
-        private void CheckHostJsonId()
-        {
-            if (FileSystemHelpers.FileExists(ScriptConstants.HostMetadataFileName))
-            {
-                var hostJsonContent = FileSystemHelpers.ReadAllTextFromFile(ScriptConstants.HostMetadataFileName);
-                var hostConfig = string.IsNullOrEmpty(hostJsonContent)
-                    ? new JObject()
-                    : JsonConvert.DeserializeObject<JObject>(hostJsonContent);
-                if (hostConfig["id"] == null)
-                {
-                    ColoredConsole.Out
-                        .WriteLine(WarningColor($"No \"id\" property defined in {ScriptConstants.HostMetadataFileName}."))
-                        .WriteLine(WarningColor($"Updating {ScriptConstants.HostMetadataFileName} with a new \"id\""));
-
-                    hostConfig.Add("id", Guid.NewGuid().ToString("N"));
-                    FileSystemHelpers.WriteAllTextToFile(ScriptConstants.HostMetadataFileName, JsonConvert.SerializeObject(hostConfig, Formatting.Indented));
-                }
-            }
-        }
-
         private static void DisableCoreLogging(HttpSelfHostConfiguration config)
         {
             WebScriptHostManager hostManager = config.DependencyResolver.GetService<WebScriptHostManager>();

src/Azure.Functions.Cli/Actions/LocalActions/InitAction.cs

@@ -49,7 +49,7 @@ class InitAction : BaseAction
 appsettings.json
 local.settings.json
 "},
-            { new Lazy<string>(() => ScriptConstants.HostMetadataFileName), $"{{\"id\":\"{ Guid.NewGuid().ToString("N") }\"}}" },
+            { new Lazy<string>(() => ScriptConstants.HostMetadataFileName), "{ }" },
             { new Lazy<string>(() => SecretsManager.AppSettingsFileName), @"{
   ""IsEncrypted"": true,
   ""Values"": {