Add field to retrieve linked issues (closingIssuesReferences) in gh pr view <number>

Describe the feature or problem you’d like to solve

Access to issues linked to Pull Requests in the Development panel. This field is available in GraphQL but not yet exposed in gh CLI. The GraphQL query to retrieve this field was shared in #7097

gh api graphql -F owner='{owner}' -F repo='{repo}' -F pr=PRNUMBER -f query='
query ($owner: String!, $repo: String!, $pr: Int!) {
	repository(owner: $owner, name: $repo) {
		pullRequest(number: $pr) {
			closingIssuesReferences(first: 100) {
				nodes {
					number
				}
			}
		}
	}
}'  --jq '.data.repository.pullRequest.closingIssuesReferences.nodes[].number'

Proposed solution

Exposing closingIssuesReferences as a field. E.g. gh view pr <number> --json closingIssuesReferences.

@vvolkgang

Hey @vvolkgang, seems reasonable. Thanks for the suggestion!

Acceptance Criteria

Given an PR references an issue to close
when I use gh pr view <number> --json closingIssueReferences[, other fields...]
then I get a JSON object containing an array of the closingIssuesReferences with issue numbers

$ gh pr view 101 --json title,number,closingIssueReferences
{
    "title": "PR title",
    "number": 101,
    "closingIssueReferences": [
        98,
        99
    ]
}

Are we looking to have the opposite: gh issue view that shows which PRs would close the issue?
Or do we have that already and I'm blind?

@EdouardF

Are we looking to have the opposite: gh issue view that shows which PRs would close the issue? Or do we have that already and I'm blind?

HI @EdouardF, I don't think this field exists for gh issue view, so I suppose we could add that enhancement as well. Will you make another issue for it and link this one?

@williammartin

@williammartin @iamazeem As of our discussion in the PR #10544, here's the updated acceptance criteria:

Acceptance Criteria

Given an PR references an issue to close
when I use gh pr view <number> --json closingIssueReferences[, other fields...]
then I get a JSON object containing closingIssuesReferences as an array of referenced issues with sufficient details to locate the issue:

$ gh pr view 101 --json title,number,closingIssueReferences
{
    "title": "PR title",
    "number": 101,
    "closingIssuesReferences": [
        {
            "number": 999,
            "id": "issue-id",
            "url": "https://github.com/...",
            "repository": {
                "id": "repo-id",
                "name": "repo-name",
                "owner": {
                    "id": "owner-id",
                    "login": "owner-login"
                }
            }
        }
    ]
}

Note that the nested structure (for repository and owner fields) is mainly to keep the schema consistent with gh repo view --json output.

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