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my code looks like this:
```let sa = k8s.core.v1.ServiceAccount.get(id, `${namespace}/${name}`);

if (sa === undefined)
// create the service account```

the `get` function errors out and says "resource &lt;name&gt; does not exist"

anyone have thoughts on this? I'm beginning to think that the pattern of getting something before it exists is the wrong pattern

use try/catch?  I do this for a couple ops in python, mostly around bootstrapping.

```# Handle bootstrapping chicken/egg problem.  Here in case something
# happens and we need to re-create the world.
initial_setup = False
try:
    core_vpc = gcp.compute.get_network(
        name = "core-vpc",
        project = "prj-core"
    )
except:
    initial_setup = True```

I tried the node equivalent and it didn't trigger the catch function. I experimented with it a bit and saw that finally() was called, but not catch.

oof, I don't know node, so can't help beyond that.  But yah, most of my .get() to check blocks are wrapped in try/except

I'll try it again. I'm beginning to think that it's typescript related, in that the catch function isn't called because the type that is passed doesn't match the signature :shrug:

just did a quick try and now i'm thinking it has something to do with `async` calls. I'm not a typescript expert, so i'm definitely overlooking something

```try {
  staticIP = gcp.compute.GlobalAddress.get(
    `banana`,
    `banana`
  );
} catch (e) {
  console.log('here in catch')
} finally {
  console.log('here in finally');
}```

in that code, I see `here in finally`, and the script exits with:
```gcp:compute:GlobalAddress (banana):
    error: Preview failed: resource 'banana' does not exist```