pulumi-community #general

boundless-monkey-50243

08/31/2018, 7:03 PM

My natural assumption would be more like

{ vpc: { id: "vpc-xxx" } }

, to match the pattern of accessing the object that I gave Pulumi to deal with.

boundless-monkey-50243

08/31/2018, 7:06 PM

(I realize this is a breaking change, but I find the cognitive load of having to remember things my typechecker can't to be frustrating.)

stocky-spoon-28903

08/31/2018, 7:06 PM

I had not noticed this in prior use - I guess I hadn’t tried exporting a whole resource

boundless-monkey-50243

08/31/2018, 7:07 PM

I just assumed it would be allowed, yeah.

bitter-oil-46081

08/31/2018, 7:10 PM

Opened: https://github.com/pulumi/pulumi/issues/1858 just so we don't lose track here.

adventurous-jordan-10043

08/31/2018, 8:09 PM

is there any plan for providing a way of exporting a

pulumi preview

in a file for a later use with

pulumi update

adventurous-jordan-10043

08/31/2018, 8:10 PM

something like

tf plan -out x

and then

tf apply x

boundless-monkey-50243

09/02/2018, 3:14 PM

JS/TS: Because I need to use stuff like

aws.getAvailabilityZones

inline, I've tried to wrap my Pulumi definition into a Promise. This results in getting no outputs, either when assigning it directly to

module.exports

export

-ing values as keys. How do I correctly do this so Pulumi picks up what I am putting down?

boundless-monkey-50243

09/02/2018, 3:21 PM

Realistically I would probably want to just wrap everything in

module.exports = (async () => doSomething())();

in order to avoid thinking about the lack of top-level await

boundless-monkey-50243

09/02/2018, 3:23 PM

As-is I'm kind of stuck because I don't know how to get my outputs out of the program 😐

big-piano-35669

09/02/2018, 3:26 PM

The lack of top-level await is definitely unfortunate for cases like this. We've been discussing ways to make this easier -- https://github.com/pulumi/pulumi/issues/1611 lists a few approaches that work today, plus some ideas on how we might make it better. Hopefully one of the workarounds unsticks you and any feedback on that issue is appreciated.

boundless-monkey-50243

09/02/2018, 3:29 PM

Maybe I suddenly can't read, but I don't see any workarounds outlined there? I see ideas, but no workarounds

big-piano-35669

09/02/2018, 3:30 PM

That first code snippet will work. You can export a promise as an output and it will be recorded by Pulumi as a stack output.

boundless-monkey-50243

09/02/2018, 3:31 PM

I tried that.

boundless-monkey-50243

09/02/2018, 3:31 PM

Oh, wait, no. I tried to unwrap it myself.

boundless-monkey-50243

09/02/2018, 3:32 PM

hm. That's really unfortunate

boundless-monkey-50243

09/02/2018, 3:32 PM

I can deal with it, though

big-piano-35669

09/02/2018, 3:33 PM

Can you share the code you tried? There are discussions in TS/ES land about top level await, but I don't know if they'll ever happen, because of the impact to module loading. And if they did, I worry they'd be done in a way that doesn't address this problem (since you'd want to export after the first await has occurred).

big-piano-35669

09/02/2018, 3:34 PM

But in general, I think there are some simple things we can do here so that the code you try first will just work, like exporting whole objects.

boundless-monkey-50243

09/02/2018, 3:34 PM

Top-level await is bad, yeah

boundless-monkey-50243

09/02/2018, 3:34 PM

All I did was this

boundless-monkey-50243

09/02/2018, 3:34 PM

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module.exports = (async () => {
  return { x: 5 };
})();

boundless-monkey-50243

09/02/2018, 3:35 PM

IMO (and I'm responding to that issue) it's pretty natural to expect a function that's returned to be evaluated, or a Promise to be unwrapped

big-piano-35669

09/02/2018, 3:35 PM

We should absolutely just make that work. Let me look a little into this today, and sorry for the hassles!

boundless-monkey-50243

09/02/2018, 3:35 PM

No problem - I get the difficulty, Promise juggling sucks

👍 1

big-piano-35669

09/02/2018, 3:41 PM

Btw, I believe this will work for your example

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module.exports.x = (async () => {
  return { x: 5 };
})().then(o => o.x);

Not ideal, but it should do the trick.

boundless-monkey-50243

09/02/2018, 3:41 PM

Oh, will it? Awesome

boundless-monkey-50243

09/02/2018, 3:42 PM

Well, sort of. I have a bunch of stuff coming out of the same function

boundless-monkey-50243

09/02/2018, 3:42 PM

So it'd be effectively the same as the top comment

boundless-monkey-50243

09/02/2018, 3:42 PM

(which I've done, for now)