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Hi @salmon-helicopter-31908. Import can work however you want it to. The

id

is an arbitrary string, so you can communicate anything you want in it. If you wanted to, you have have import take a JSON object representing inputs, and then model the import as a create (computing outputs). For example: Imagine a resource

Sum

with inputs

op1

and

op2

and output

result

. You could allow this:

pulumi import pkg:module:resource three '{ "op1": 1, "op2": 2 }'

Read

would then return

{ ID: three, state: { op1: 1, op2: 2, result: 3 } }

. P.S.

Read

is used to model both

import

and

refresh

. An import will have no prior state, while a refresh will. You need to be careful that when

Read

is called for a refresh, it doesn’t change anything.