Export package parameters in the format needed for import about openwhisk-cli HOT 5 OPEN

Related to apache/openwhisk#2062 for quiet mode requirement.

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We have in the past considered changing the representation of parameters (and annotations) to a dictionary instead of the current array of key-value pairs. This on the one hand would also resolve this issue, but on the other is a breaking API change better left for "v2" perhaps.

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A forward compatible switch in v1 would be nice so that the v1 users can migrate to the v2 format before going to v2? (Unless of course, v2 is imminent…)

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Definitely not suggesting a breaking change, but an additional option for formatting this output. Especially if we would consider doing this for v2, then having it behind a switch to have people try it and offer feedback in the current version seems valuable. I'm just hesitating to create a patch if it won't be accepted.

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This is a tooling issue. It's true we can make an API change but that's not what's being requested here. Going to close/transfer to the CLI repo.

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