It would be great if I could have types while working with the exported state but I could not find anything relevant. Programming language does not matter that much.

__defaults

are really the only thing preventing me from using

initialize

method to do rather heavy state transformation. Here's what I am working on: original code in the

constructor

(awsx creates component resource and urn)

const sg = awsx.ec2.SecurityGroup(...)

new code migrated away from

awsx

without aliases.

protected initialize(args: pulumi.Inputs)

const sg = awsx.ec2.SecurityGroup(...) // transformation with retain on delete=true

const sgIdPromise = new Promise((resolve) => sg.id.apply(resolve))

const classicSg = new aws.ec2.SecurityGroup(
"resourceName"
{
  name: sg.securityGroup.name
},
{
import: await sgIdPromise
}

I think the most fleshed out SDK for working with it is in Go

And also that I am very glad @enough-garden-22763 jumped in because I sure had no idea how to answer this one