Hey folks! I was having a look at what it takes to...
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fast-vr-6049
10/18/2023, 7:13 PMHey folks! I was having a look at what it takes to author a Pulumi provider, and it seems like you must write them in Go. Is that correct?
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eager-accountant-59554
10/18/2023, 7:16 PMyou can write them in go, python, typescript/javascript and even c# (though there are no examples for C# yet)
eager-accountant-59554
10/18/2023, 7:16 PMthe docs aren't particularly detailed yet however.
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fast-vr-6049
10/18/2023, 7:17 PMOh! If it's possible to write a provider in C#, that'd make what I'm exploring way easier
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eager-accountant-59554
10/18/2023, 7:17 PMhttps://www.pulumi.com/docs/using-pulumi/pulumi-packages/how-to-author/ is all there is atm
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fast-vr-6049
10/18/2023, 7:18 PMYeah, that's the page I've got open, but it doesn't seem to make any mention of language support for Providers, only Components
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eager-accountant-59554
10/18/2023, 7:18 PM• there's a note: C#: a template repository is coming soon
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eager-accountant-59554
10/18/2023, 7:20 PMthere was a lot of... lets call it exploration and experitmentation.
I suspect if I update my provider to C# I would just have to implement this shell script here, in such a way that it would call
dotnet path/to/my.dlleager-accountant-59554
10/18/2023, 7:20 PMone issue I had with the boilerplate, was I had to work in a linux environment (wsl in my case)
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billowy-army-68599
10/18/2023, 7:26 PM
dotnet resources providers are here: https://www.pulumi.com/blog/dotnet-custom-providers/
billowy-army-68599
10/18/2023, 7:26 PM
they are much easier to write in Go, though
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fast-vr-6049
10/18/2023, 7:27 PMAha! Thank you!
fast-vr-6049
10/18/2023, 7:28 PMIn this case, I'm probably constrained to C#. The thing I'm exploring is writing a provider for the Perforce Helix Core source control server (colloquially referred to as P4), and they publish a .Net library for interacting with the server
fast-vr-6049
10/18/2023, 7:31 PMLooks like they've got one for Python as well, but I'm much more familiar with C#