Hey guys, I’m almost there now with our migration to AzureNative. Just struggling to migrate our TemplateDeployment stuff, it seems Pulumi no longer likes it when we supply parameters with an anonymous object, like so:

return new DeploymentArgs()
{
	DeploymentName = "hostname-binding-template",
	ResourceGroupName = resourceGroupName,
	Location = location,
	Properties = new DeploymentPropertiesArgs()
	{
		Mode = DeploymentMode.Incremental,
		Parameters = new
		{
			webAppName = webAppName,
			hostname = hostname,
			sslState = sslState.ToString(),
			thumbprint = thumbprint
		},
		Template = templateJson
	}
};

This gets us an exception when running

pulumi up

:

System.InvalidOperationException: <>f__AnonymousType0`4[[Pulumi.Input`1[[System.String, System.Private.CoreLib, Version=4.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=7cec85d7bea7798e]], Pulumi, Version=2.21.2.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=null],[Pulumi.Input`1[[System.String, System.Private.CoreLib, Version=4.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=7cec85d7bea7798e]], Pulumi, Version=2.21.2.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=null],[System.String, System.Private.CoreLib, Version=4.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=7cec85d7bea7798e],[Pulumi.Input`1[[System.String, System.Private.CoreLib, Version=4.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=7cec85d7bea7798e]], Pulumi, Version=2.21.2.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=null]] is not a supported argument type.

So I checked the XML docs for the

Parameters

property, which say:

// Summary:
//     Name and value pairs that define the deployment parameters for the template.
//     You use this element when you want to provide the parameter values directly in
//     the request rather than link to an existing parameter file. Use either the parametersLink
//     property or the parameters property, but not both. It can be a JObject or a well
//     formed JSON string.
[Input("parameters", false, false)]
public Input<object>? Parameters { get; set; }

So I tried a JSON string instead, but then we get a different error:

error: azure-native:resources:Deployment resource 'hostname-binding-template' has a problem: 'properties.parameters' should be of type '' but got a string

Can someone tell me how I should pass the parameters now? With the old provider, the anonymous object approach worked fine. The C# examples here don’t give any hint - they are even incorrect C# syntax (value for the

Parameters

property is just missing from the code snippet: https://www.pulumi.com/docs/reference/pkg/azure-native/resources/deployment/

I believe it expects a dictionary right now.

new Dictionary<string, object>...

OK, thanks I’ll try that - should it be a dictionary of

Input<T>

or should the values be resolved before @tall-librarian-49374?

same, dictionaries

Sure, if you promise not to lose it 😉

Yes, you can. Or, make a helper function to convert your JSON to dictionaries recursively.

I think it would be a huge improvement if the new provider did this for you (like the old one did).

This is unlikely for now. Our current approach is staying true to the specs (even if they are sub-optimal).

Our current approach is staying true to the specs

I can appreciate that. A workaround is not too difficult, and the need for templated deployments should be almost zero with the new provider anyway.

Any idea how to get around that one?

Ouch, that’s not good. Could you try setting

location

to null in your code?

Yeah - on the

DeploymentArgs

object you mean, or in the template JSON?

In the args

same message 😕

It’s our auto-location feature kicking in… in a bad way, it seems.

ouch.. hmm

It can be fixed

Ok good. You need me to submit an issue?

Yes please