Some instances use statements like %%=ContentBlockByID("2731")=%% a lot.
That's actually considered best practice by the vendor because it cannot be "accidentally changed" like the name. Ok, same is likely true for the key but I suppose that can still be changed if one wants to.

Regardless, this presents as a problem because it makes the code unreadable and I wanted a quick way to resolve that Id and be able to open the actual content block in VSCode. Therefore we got this ticket:

• [FEATURE] get name and key for content block id sfmc-devtools#1238

it works like this:

request:

mcdev resolveId myCred/myBU asset 2463 --json

# or

mcdev rid myCred/myBU asset 2463 --json

response:

{
  "key": "35aa172d-2212-4b3d-b220-e01104394a9b",
  "name": "my super-duper cool content block",
  "path": "./retrieve/myCred/myBU/asset/block/35aa172d-2212-4b3d-b220-e01104394a9b.asset-block-meta.json"
}

See how I already added the json version for you ;-)

Alternatively, it looks like this:

mcdev rid myCred/myBU asset 2463       
11:00:32 info: mcdev:: resolveId
11:00:32 info:  - Searching asset with id 2463 on BU myCred/myBU
11:00:33 info:  - asset-block found: 35aa172d-2212-4b3d-b220-e01104394a9b (my super-duper cool content block)
11:00:33 info:  - link: ./retrieve/myCred/myBU/asset/block/35aa172d-2212-4b3d-b220-e01104394a9b.asset-block-meta.json